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Finnish and Malayalam


Malayalam and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
3  
12

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry  

Second Language
Estonia  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala  

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.
  
  • Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
  • Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages  

Derived From
-  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29  
11
53  
32

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
15  
12

How Many Consonants
13  
3
41  
30

Scripts
Latin  
Brahmic family and derivatives  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
ഹലോ (halēā)  

Thank You
Kiitos  
നന്ദി (nandi)  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
രാവിലെ (rāvile)  

Please
haluta  
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)  

Bye
Heippa  
വിട (viṭa)  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Judeo-Malayalam  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Israel, kerala  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
38,000,000.00  
19

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Mappila  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
India  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
38,000,000.00  
17

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Pandy Malayalam  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
France, kerala  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
99+
38,000,000.00  
16

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
38.00 million  
33

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.57 %  
29

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
38.00 million  
26

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
99+
38.00 million  
23

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla  

French Name
finnois  
malayalam  

German Name
Finnisch  
Malayalam  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Malayali  

History

Origin
1543  
9th Century  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Dravidian Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
-  

Branch
Finnic  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
No early form  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Malayalam  

Language Position
22  
20
29  
27

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Signed Malayalam  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
ml  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
mal  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
mal  

ISO 639 3
fin  
mal  

ISO 639 6
fin  
mal  

Glottocode
finn1318  
mala1464  

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  
Synthetic  

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

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Finnish and Malayalam Speaking population

Finnish and Malayalam speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Malayalam languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Malayalam Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Malayalam language is 0.57 %. 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 Malayalam on Finnish vs Malayalam where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Malayalam Language Codes

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

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