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Finnish and Maithili


Maithili and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland   
India, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

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

Second Language
Estonia   
Nepal   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe   
Asia   

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

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.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages   
Bhojpuri Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29   
11
47   
27

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
8   
5

How Many Consonants
13   
3
Not Available   

Scripts
Latin   
Devanagari   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
Not Available   

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
Not Available   

Greetings

Hello
Moi   
pranam   

Thank You
Kiitos   
dhanyabad   

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?   
Aahan kehan chhi ?   

Good Night
hyvää yötä   
Śubharātri   

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa   
shubh sandhya   

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää   
dopahar ke bad namaskar   

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta   
Suprabhaat   

Please
haluta   
kripaya   

Sorry
Anteeksi   
maf karai   

Bye
Heippa   
Alavidā   

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua   
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi   

Excuse Me
Anteeksi   
kripaya   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish   
Tharuwat   

Where They Speak
Finland   
Nepal   

Dialect 2
Rauma   
Madhubani   

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma   
North India   

Dialect 3
Meänkieli   
Khortha   

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden   
Deoghar, France   

How Many People Speak
60,000.00   
31
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
21   
19
15   
14

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.41 %   
33

Native Speakers
5.40 million   
99+
27.00 million   
30

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million   
39
2.80 million   
33

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli   
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)   

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

French Name
finnois   
maithili   

German Name
Finnisch   
Maithili   

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns   
Maithil   

History

Origin
1543   
14th 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   
Standard Maithili   

Language Position
Not Available   
40   
31

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish   
Not Available   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
fi   
No data available   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin   
mai   

ISO 639 2/B
fin   
mai   

ISO 639 3
fin   
mai   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
finn1318   
mait1250   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic   
Not Available   

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All Finnish and Maithili 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 Finnish and Maithili dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Maithili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Maithili Dialects are spoken in different Maithili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Maithili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Maithili dialects include: Tharuwat , Madhubani. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Finnish and Maithili Speaking population

Finnish and Maithili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Maithili languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Maithili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 %. 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 Finnish and Maithili on Finnish vs Maithili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Maithili Language Codes

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

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