Countries
Burkina Faso
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
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Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
- 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
Dagbani Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2629
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1613
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kia ora
Moi
Thank You
Laafi bala
Kiitos
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Ne y yungo
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
ne y zabre
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
Hyvää huomenta
Please
gafare
haluta
Sorry
gafare
Anteeksi
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
Heippa
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Y gafare
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Finland
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saremde
Rauma
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Taolende
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
821
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Mosse
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
Suomi
French Name
moré
finnois
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[mɔ̀ːsì]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Mossi
ethnic Finns
Origin
11th Century AD
1543
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Mossi
standard Finnish
Language Position
3722
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mossi Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mos
fin
ISO 639 2/B
mos
fin
ISO 639 3
mos
fin
ISO 639 6
mos
fin
Glottocode
moss1236
finn1318
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic