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 in
Alphabets
2948
18
247
👆🏻
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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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)
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2112
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
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
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