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Maithili vs Finnish


Finnish vs Maithili


Countries

Countries
India, Nepal   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

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

Second Language
Nepal   
Estonia   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia, Europe   

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

Regulated By
Not Available   
Institute for the Languages of Finland   

Interesting Facts
  • Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
  • Maithili has rich literature.
  
  • 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
Bhojpuri Language   
Estonian and Livonian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
47   
27
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
8   
5

How Many Consonants
Not Available   
13   
3

Scripts
Devanagari   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
Not Available   
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available   
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
pranam   
Moi   

Thank You
dhanyabad   
Kiitos   

How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?   
Mitä kuuluu?   

Good Night
Śubharātri   
hyvää yötä   

Good Evening
shubh sandhya   
Hyvää iltaa   

Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar   
Hyvää iltapäivää   

Good Morning
Suprabhaat   
Hyvää huomenta   

Please
kripaya   
haluta   

Sorry
maf karai   
Anteeksi   

Bye
Alavidā   
Heippa   

I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi   
Minä rakastan sinua   

Excuse Me
kripaya   
Anteeksi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Tharuwat   
Colloquial Finnish   

Where They Speak
Nepal   
Finland   

Dialect 2
Madhubani   
Rauma   

Where They Speak
North India   
Finland, Rauma   

Dialect 3
Khortha   
Meänkieli   

Where They Speak
Deoghar, France   
Finland, Sweden   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
15   
14
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
32.00 million   
35
5.40 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.41 %   
33
Not Available   

Native Speakers
27.00 million   
30
5.40 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
2.80 million   
33
0.01 million   
39

Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)   
suomi / suomen kieli   

Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia   
Suomi   

French Name
maithili   
finnois   

German Name
Maithili   
Finnisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ˈsuomi]   

Ethnicity
Maithil   
ethnic Finns   

History

Origin
14th century   
1543   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Not Available   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Standard Maithili   
standard Finnish   

Language Position
40   
31
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available   
fi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mai   
fin   

ISO 639 2/B
mai   
fin   

ISO 639 3
mai   
fin   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
mait1250   
finn1318   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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Maithili and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Maithili vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Maithili and Finnish language. History of Maithili language states that this language originated in 14th 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 Maithili and Finnish Language History.

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

Maithili vs Finnish Difficulty

The Maithili vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maithili 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 Maithili and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maithili and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maithili is Not Available while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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