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Hindi vs Finnish


Finnish vs Hindi


Countries

Countries
Fiji, India  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
India  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  

Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

Interesting Facts
  • In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
  • In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  

Similar To
Urdu  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
Sanskrit Language  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
44  
24
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
11  
8
8  
5

How Many Consonants
33  
23
13  
3

Scripts
Devanagari  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)  
Moi  

Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)  
haluta  

Sorry
खेद (Khēda)  
Anteeksi  

Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)  
Heippa  

I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Khariboli  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh  
Finland  

How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00  
3
5,600,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Marwari  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh  
Finland, Rauma  

How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00  
24
5,600,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Bundeli  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Bundelkhand  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00  
24
60,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
380.00 million  
5
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
4.70 %  
5
0.13 %  
99+

Native Speakers
260.00 million  
4
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
120.00 million  
6
0.01 million  
99+

Native Name
हिन्दी  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli  
Suomi  

French Name
hindi  
finnois  

German Name
Hindi  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Hindustani people  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
7th Century  
1543  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
Indic  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Standard Hindi  
standard Finnish  

Language Position
5  
5
22  
20

Signed Forms
Indian Signing System  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
hi  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hin  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
hin  
fin  

ISO 639 3
hin  
fin  

ISO 639 6
hins  
fin  

Glottocode
hind1269  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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Hindi and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Hindi vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Hindi and Finnish language. History of Hindi language states that this language originated in 7th Century whereas history of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Hindi and Finnish Language History.

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Hindi and Finnish 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 Hindi and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hindi and Finnish language. Hindi word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (Namastē) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Hindi Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Hindi vs Finnish Difficulty

The Hindi vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hindi Alphabets and Finnish 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 Hindi and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hindi and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hindi is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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