Countries
India
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
-
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3029
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2113
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Henda ho
Moi
Thank You
Adi Johar
Kiitos
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Boge Ninda
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
Hyvää huomenta
Please
দয়া করে
haluta
Sorry
দুঃখিত
Anteeksi
Bye
Hariau
Heippa
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Mahali
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
India
Finland
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Rauma
Where They Speak
-
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
-
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
121
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million0.01 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Suomi
French Name
santal
finnois
German Name
Santali
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
ethnic Finns
Origin
20th century
1543
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
-
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Santali
standard Finnish
Language Position
4122
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
fin
ISO 639 2/B
sat
fin
ISO 639 3
sat
fin
ISO 639 6
sat
fin
Glottocode
sant1410
finn1318
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic