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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland
India, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Nepal

Second Language

Estonia
Republic of Brazil

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
People's Republic of China

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland
Language Academy of Nepal

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.
  • Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
  • Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.

Similar To

Estonian and Livonian Languages
Hindi

Derived From

-
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2948
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

812
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1336
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Devanagari

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

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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Greetings

Hello

Moi
नमस्ते (namaste)

Thank You

Kiitos
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)

How Are You?

Mitä kuuluu?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)

Good Night

hyvää yötä
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)

Good Evening

Hyvää iltaa
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)

Good Afternoon

Hyvää iltapäivää
Good afternoon

Good Morning

Hyvää huomenta
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)

Please

haluta
कृपया

Sorry

Anteeksi
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)

Bye

Heippa
नमस्ते (namaste)

I Love You

Minä rakastan sinua
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)

Excuse Me

Anteeksi
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Colloquial Finnish
Doteli

Where They Speak

Finland
Nepal

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.00790,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Rauma
Bajhangi

Where They Speak

Finland, Rauma
India, Nepal

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.0017,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Meänkieli
Baitadeli

Where They Speak

Finland, Sweden
Nepal

How Many People Speak

60,000.0017,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2112
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.40 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.25 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.40 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.01 million5.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

suomi / suomen kieli
नेपाली (nēpālī)

Alternative Names

Suomi
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate

French Name

finnois
népalais

German Name

Finnisch
Nepali

Pronunciation

[ˈsuomi]
[neˈpali]

Ethnicity

ethnic Finns
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu

History

Origin

1543
19 BC

Language Family

Uralic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Finnic
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Finnic language
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha

Standard Forms

standard Finnish
Nepali

Language Position

2259
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Finnish
Signed Nepali

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

fi
ne

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fin
nep

ISO 639 2/B

fin
nep

ISO 639 3

fin
npi

ISO 639 6

fin
nep

Glottocode

finn1318
nepa1254

Linguasphere

No data available
12

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative

Finnish and Nepali Alphabets

Finnish and Nepali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Finnish and Nepali. In Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters. To learn Finnish and Nepali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Finnish and Nepali languages. The Finnish phonology consist Finnish vowels and Finnish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Finnish greetings vs Nepali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Finnish and Nepali are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Finnish and Nepali Speaking population

Finnish and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. 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 Nepali on Finnish vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Nepali Language Codes

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