Countries
European Union, Finland
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
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.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Czech Language
Derived From
-
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2946
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
815
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1338
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Ahoj
Thank You
Kiitos
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Dobré ráno
Please
haluta
Prosím
Sorry
Anteeksi
Pardón!
Bye
Heippa
Dovidenia
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
Finland
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Rauma
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
60,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
214
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million5.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Suomi
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
finnois
slovaque
German Name
Finnisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Slovaks
Origin
1543
6th Century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Slavic
Branch
Finnic
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Slovak
Language Position
2227
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
slk
ISO 639 2/B
fin
slo
ISO 639 3
fin
slk
ISO 639 6
fin
slk
Glottocode
finn1318
slov1269
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic