Countries
European Union, Finland
  
India, No official status
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
India
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Maithili and Magahi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bhojpuri-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
प्रणाम (prannam)
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
राम राम (raam raam)
  
Please
haluta
  
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
  
Bye
Heippa
  
प्रणाम (prannam)
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Caribbean Hindustani
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Fiji Hindi
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Tharu Bhojpuri
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
40.00 million
  
31
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
40.00 million
  
24
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
  
French Name
finnois
  
bhojpuri
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Bhojpuri
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1543
  
19th Century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Bhojpuri
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
No data Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
bho
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
bho
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
bho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
bhoj1246
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
59-AAF-sa
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available