Countries
European Union, Finland
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
haluta
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Heippa
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
finnois
  
népalais
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
1543
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Nepali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Finnish and Nepali Speaking population
Finnish and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. 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 Nepali on Finnish vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Nepali Language Codes
Finnish and Nepali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Nepali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.