Countries
European Union, Finland
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
India
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2952
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
816
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1336
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Namaskar
Thank You
Kiitos
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
kaso assa?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
haluta
Chike
Sorry
Anteeksi
Maf kor
Bye
Heippa
Adeus
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Antruz
Where They Speak
Finland
Goa
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Rauma
Not present
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
-
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Not present
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
-
How Many People Speak
60,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
211
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Suomi
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
finnois
konkani
German Name
Finnisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Konkanis
Origin
1543
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Kokani
Language Position
2223
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
fi
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
kok
ISO 639 2/B
fin
kok
ISO 639 3
fin
kok
ISO 639 6
fin
kok
Glottocode
finn1318
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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