Countries
European Union, Ireland
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Ireland
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Ireland
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
United Kingdom
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Foras na Gaeilge
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- In Irish language, there are no exact words for "yes" or "no".
- There are different set of numbers for counting humans and another set for counting non-humans in Irish Language.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Scottish Gaelic and Welsh Languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
1829
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1313
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Dia dhuit
Moi
Thank You
Go raibh maith agat
Kiitos
How Are You?
Conas atá tú ?
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Oíche mhaith
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Tráthnóna maith duit
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
Tráthnóna maith duit
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Dia dhuit ar maidin
Hyvää huomenta
Please
le do thoil
haluta
Sorry
Tá brón orm
Anteeksi
Bye
Slán
Heippa
I Love You
Is breá liom thú
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Gabh mo leithscéal
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Connacht Irish
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Connacht
Finland
How Many People Speak
100,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Munster Irish
Rauma
Where They Speak
Munster
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
150,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ulster Irish
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Ulster
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
140,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
421
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.79 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.14 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.65 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish
Suomi
French Name
irlandais moyen
finnois
German Name
Mittelirisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[ˈɡeːlʲɟə]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Irish people
ethnic Finns
Origin
c. 750
1543
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Celtic
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Goidelic
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil
standard Finnish
Language Position
2522
1
120
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Signed Forms
Irish Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ga
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
gle
fin
ISO 639 2/B
gle
fin
ISO 639 3
gle
fin
ISO 639 6
gle
fin
Glottocode
iris1253
finn1318
Linguasphere
50-AAA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic