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Finnish and Nepali


Nepali and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
India, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

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

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

Alphabets
29  
11
48  
28

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
12  
9

How Many Consonants
13  
3
36  
26

Scripts
Latin  
Devanagari  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Doteli  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
790,000.00  
30

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
60,000.00  
31
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
12  
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
30.00 million  
36

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.25 %  
99+

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  

History

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  
59  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Signed Nepali  

Scope
Individual  
Individual, Macrolanguage  

Code

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  

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

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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.

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