Countries
European Union, Finland
India
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Munda Language
Alphabets in
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Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
Kiitos
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
संध्यायान
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Boge Setak’
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Mahali
Where They Speak
Finland
India
Dialect 2
Rauma
Not present
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Not present
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
finnois
santal
German Name
Finnisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Language Family
Uralic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Santali
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
No data available
Glottocode
finn1318
sant1410
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Finnish and Santali Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Finnish and Santali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Santali language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Santali word for "Thank You" is Adi Johar. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Santali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Santali Difficulty
The Finnish vs Santali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Santali Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Finnish and Santali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Santali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Santali time required is 44 weeks.