Countries
European Union, Finland
  
New Zealand
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
New Zealand
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Australia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Māori Language Commission
  
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.
  
- "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.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Tahitian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maori-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Hello
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Mauruuru koutou
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
E pēhea ana koe ?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Night pai
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
pai ahiahi
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Afternoon pai
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
Morning pai
  
Please
haluta
  
Tēnā
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Aroha mai
  
Bye
Heippa
  
poroporoaki
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Aroha ahau ki a koe
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
tukua ahau
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
South Island Māori
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
New Zealand
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Western North Island Maori
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
New Zealand
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Eastern North Island Maori
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
New Zealand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
0.18 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
0.18 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
te Reo Māori
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
New Zealand Maori
  
French Name
finnois
  
maori
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Maori-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Māori people
  
Origin
1543
  
1814
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Polynesian
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Maori
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
mi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
mri
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
mao
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
mri
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
maor1246
  
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
  
Finnish and Maori Speaking population
Finnish and Maori speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Maori languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Maori Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Maori language is Not Available. 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 Maori on Finnish vs Maori where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Maori Language Codes
Finnish and Maori language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Maori Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.