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Finnish and Maithili


Maithili and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
India, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

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  
-  

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
-  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
47  
27

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
8  
5

How Many Consonants
13  
3
22  
12

Scripts
Latin  
Devanagari  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Tharuwat  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
35,000,000.00  
21

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Madhubani  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
North India  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
35,000,000.00  
19

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Khortha  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Deoghar, France  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
99+
35,000,000.00  
17

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
15  
14

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
32.00 million  
35

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.41 %  
35

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
27.00 million  
30

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
99+
2.80 million  
99+

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  

History

Origin
1543  
14th century  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
-  

Branch
Finnic  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Standard Maithili  

Language Position
22  
20
40  
37

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Maithili Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

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  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
-  

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All Finnish and Maithili 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 Finnish and Maithili dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Maithili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Maithili Dialects are spoken in different Maithili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Maithili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Maithili dialects include: Tharuwat , Madhubani. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Finnish and Maithili Speaking population

Finnish and Maithili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Maithili languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Maithili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 %. 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 Finnish and Maithili on Finnish vs Maithili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Maithili Language Codes

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

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