Countries
European Union, Finland
  
India, Nepal
  
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 in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
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
  
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
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
32.00 million
  
35
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
Finnish and Maithili Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Finnish and Maithili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Maithili language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Maithili word for "Thank You" is dhanyabad. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Maithili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Maithili Difficulty
The Finnish vs Maithili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Maithili Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Finnish and Maithili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Maithili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Maithili time required is Not Available.