Countries
European Union, Finland
Armenian Highland
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Greek
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2938
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1332
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Armenian manuscript
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
412
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Բարեւ (Barev)
Thank You
Kiitos
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
Please
haluta
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
Sorry
Anteeksi
կներեք (knerek’)
Bye
Heippa
Ց'տեսություն
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
Finland
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Western Armenian
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
-
How Many People Speak
60,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
212
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million6.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.22 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million6.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million7.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
French Name
finnois
arménien
German Name
Finnisch
Armenisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Armenians
Origin
1543
late 5th century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Language Position
2214
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Armenian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
hy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
hye
ISO 639 2/B
fin
arm
ISO 639 3
fin
hye
ISO 639 6
fin
hye
Glottocode
finn1318
arme1241
Linguasphere
No data available
57-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic