Countries
European Union, Finland
  
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
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.
  
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
Please
haluta
  
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
Bye
Heippa
  
വിട (viṭa)
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Israel, kerala
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Mappila
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
India
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Pandy Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
France, kerala
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
38.00 million
  
33
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
38.00 million
  
26
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
French Name
finnois
  
malayalam
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Malayalam
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Malayali
  
Origin
1543
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Dravidian Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early form
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Malayalam
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
ml
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
mal
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
mal
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
mal
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
mala1464
  
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
  
Synthetic
  
Finnish and Malayalam 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 Malayalam greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Malayalam language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Malayalam word for "Thank You" is നന്ദി (nandi). Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Malayalam Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Malayalam Difficulty
The Finnish vs Malayalam difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Malayalam 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 Malayalam are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Malayalam, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Malayalam time required is 44 weeks.