Countries
European Union, Finland
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
-
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2933
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1328
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Kiitos
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
haluta
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
Anteeksi
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
Heippa
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Finland
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Kartli
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
60,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
2120
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.40 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.40 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.01 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Suomi
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
finnois
géorgien
German Name
Finnisch
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Georgians
Origin
1543
5th Century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Southern
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Modern Georgian
Language Position
22120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
fi
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
kat
ISO 639 2/B
fin
geo
ISO 639 3
fin
kat
ISO 639 6
fin
kat
Glottocode
finn1318
nucl1302
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic