Countries
European Union, Finland
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
India, Nepal
Second Language
Estonia
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2947
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1322
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
pranam
Thank You
Kiitos
dhanyabad
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Śubharātri
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Suprabhaat
Please
haluta
kripaya
Sorry
Anteeksi
maf karai
Bye
Heippa
Alavidā
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
kripaya
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Finland
Nepal
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
North India
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Khortha
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
60,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2115
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million32.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.41 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million27.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million2.80 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
finnois
maithili
German Name
Finnisch
Maithili
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Maithil
Origin
1543
14th century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
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Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Standard Maithili
Language Position
2240
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
mai
ISO 639 2/B
fin
mai
ISO 639 3
fin
mai
ISO 639 6
fin
mai
Glottocode
finn1318
mait1250
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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