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Finnish
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Countries

Countries

New Zealand
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

New Zealand
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia

Speaking Continents

Australia, Oceania
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Māori Language Commission
Institute for the Languages of Finland

Interesting Facts

  • "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
  • The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
  • 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

Tahitian Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2029
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

58
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1013
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

24
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Hello
Moi

Thank You

Mauruuru koutou
Kiitos

How Are You?

E pēhea ana koe ?
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

Night pai
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

pai ahiahi
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

Afternoon pai
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

Morning pai
Hyvää huomenta

Please

Tēnā
haluta

Sorry

Aroha mai
Anteeksi

Bye

poroporoaki
Heippa

I Love You

Aroha ahau ki a koe
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

tukua ahau
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

South Island Māori
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

New Zealand
Finland

How Many People Speak

150,000.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Western North Island Maori
Rauma

Where They Speak

New Zealand
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

150,000.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Eastern North Island Maori
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

New Zealand
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

150,000.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

321
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.18 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.18 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.10 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

te Reo Māori
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

New Zealand Maori
Suomi

French Name

maori
finnois

German Name

Maori-Sprache
Finnisch

Pronunciation

[ˈmaɔɾi]
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

Māori people
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

1814
1543

Language Family

Austronesian Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

Polynesian
Finno-Ugric

Branch

-
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

Maori
standard Finnish

Language Position

2622
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maori Sign Language
Signed Finnish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mi
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mri
fin

ISO 639 2/B

mao
fin

ISO 639 3

mri
fin

ISO 639 6

mri
fin

Glottocode

maor1246
finn1318

Linguasphere

No data Available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Agglutinative, Synthetic

Maori and Finnish Alphabets

Maori and Finnish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Maori and Finnish. In Maori Alphabets there are 20 letters while in Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Maori and Finnish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Maori and Finnish languages. The Maori phonology consist Maori vowels and Maori consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Maori greetings vs Finnish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Maori and Finnish are Most Spoken Languages.

All Maori and Finnish Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Maori and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Maori and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Maori are spoken in different Maori Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Maori vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Maori dialects include: South Island Māori, Western North Island Maori. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Maori and Finnish Speaking population

Maori and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maori and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Maori and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maori language is 0.01 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Maori and Finnish on Maori vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maori and Finnish Language Codes

Maori and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maori and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.