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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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