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Malaysian vs Finnish


Finnish vs Malaysian


Countries

Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
3  
12
2  
13

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

Second Language
Indonesia  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Thailand  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  

Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
  • Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
  • 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
Indonesian Language  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
Tamil Language  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26  
8
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
8  
5

How Many Consonants
24  
14
13  
3

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks  
13
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
Hai  
Moi  

Thank You
terima kasih  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
Apa khabar?  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
Selamat Malam  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
Selamat Petang  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
Selamat pagi  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
sila  
haluta  

Sorry
maaf  
Anteeksi  

Bye
Selamat tinggal  
Heippa  

I Love You
Saya sayang kamu  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
Maafkan saya  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Bengkulu  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra  
Finland  

How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00  
99+
5,600,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Pekal  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
Indonesia  
Finland, Rauma  

How Many People Speak
30,000.00  
99+
5,600,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Musi  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Indonesia  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00  
99+
60,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
24  
20
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
175.00 million  
10
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
1.16 %  
15
0.13 %  
99+

Native Speakers
77.00 million  
12
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
98.00 million  
8
0.01 million  
99+

Native Name
Bahasa melayu  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia  
Suomi  

French Name
malais  
finnois  

German Name
Malaiisch  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Malaysian people  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
c. 683 AD  
1543  

Language Family
Austronesian Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
-  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
-  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay  
standard Finnish  

Language Position
54  
99+
22  
20

Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
ms  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
msa  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
may  
fin  

ISO 639 3
zsm  
fin  

ISO 639 6
may  
fin  

Glottocode
stan1306  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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Malaysian and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Malaysian vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Malaysian and Finnish language. History of Malaysian language states that this language originated in c. 683 AD 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 Malaysian and Finnish Language History.

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

Malaysian vs Finnish Difficulty

The Malaysian vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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