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Countries

Countries

Wales
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Wales
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Argentina, United Kingdom
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By

Welsh Language Commissioner
Institute for the Languages of Finland

Interesting Facts

  • One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
  • Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
  • 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

English Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

British Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2929
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

78
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2113
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

44
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Helô
Moi

Thank You

Diolch
Kiitos

How Are You?

Sut ydych chi?
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

Nos da
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

Noswaith dda
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

P'nawn da
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

Bore da
Hyvää huomenta

Please

os gwelwch yn dda
haluta

Sorry

Mae'n ddrwg gennym
Anteeksi

Bye

Hwyl
Heippa

I Love You

Dw i'n dy garu di
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

Esgusodwch fi
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Patagonian Welsh
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

Argentina
Finland

How Many People Speak

38,000.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Y Wyndodeg
Rauma

Where They Speak

Gwynedd
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

700,000.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Y Bowyseg
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

Powys
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

700,000.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

821
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.40 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.24 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.40 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.70 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

Cymraeg
Suomi

French Name

gallois
finnois

German Name

Kymrisch
Finnisch

Pronunciation

[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

Welsh people
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

9th Century
1543

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

Celtic
Finno-Ugric

Branch

Brythonic
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

Welsh
standard Finnish

Language Position

3122
1 120
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Signed Forms

Welsh Sign Language
Signed Finnish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

cy
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

cym
fin

ISO 639 2/B

wel
fin

ISO 639 3

cym
fin

ISO 639 6

cym
fin

Glottocode

wels1247
finn1318

Linguasphere

50-ABA
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Welsh and Finnish Alphabets

Welsh and Finnish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Welsh and Finnish. In Welsh Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Welsh and Finnish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Welsh and Finnish languages. The Welsh phonology consist Welsh vowels and Welsh consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Welsh greetings vs Finnish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Welsh and Finnish are Most Spoken Languages.

All Welsh and Finnish Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Welsh and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Welsh and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Welsh are spoken in different Welsh Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Welsh vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Welsh dialects include: Patagonian Welsh, Y Wyndodeg. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Welsh and Finnish Speaking population

Welsh and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Welsh and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Welsh and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Welsh language is 0.24 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Welsh and Finnish on Welsh vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Welsh and Finnish Language Codes

Welsh and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Welsh and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.