Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
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 in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
175.00 million
  
10
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.