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Finnish vs Malaysian


Malaysian vs Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
3  
12

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Malaysia  

Second Language
Estonia  
Indonesia  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Thailand  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka  

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.
  
  • One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
  • Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Indonesian Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Tamil Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29  
11
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
6  
3

How Many Consonants
13  
3
24  
14

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
36 weeks  
10

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
Hai  

Thank You
Kiitos  
terima kasih  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
Apa khabar?  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
Selamat Malam  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
Selamat Petang  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
Selamat tengah hari  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
Selamat pagi  

Please
haluta  
sila  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
maaf  

Bye
Heippa  
Selamat tinggal  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
Saya sayang kamu  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
Maafkan saya  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Bengkulu  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,600,000.00  
25

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Pekal  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
30,000.00  
40

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Musi  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Indonesia  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
31
3,100,000.00  
11

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
24  
20

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
175.00 million  
10

Speaking Population
Not Available  
1.16 %  
14

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
77.00 million  
12

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
39
98.00 million  
8

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
Bahasa melayu  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Not Available  

French Name
finnois  
malais  

German Name
Finnisch  
Malaiisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Not Available  

History

Origin
1543  
c. 683 AD  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Austronesian Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Not Available  

Branch
Finnic  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Pluricentric Standard Malay  

Language Position
Not Available  
54  
39

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Malaysian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
ms  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
msa  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
may  

ISO 639 3
fin  
zsm  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
finn1318  
stan1306  

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  
Agglutinative  

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Finnish and Malaysian Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Malaysian language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Malaysian language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Malaysian language states that this language originated in c. 683 AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Finnish and Malaysian Language History.

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Finnish and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Malaysian language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Finnish vs Malaysian Difficulty

The Finnish vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.

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