Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
India
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Israel, Mauritius
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
  
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.
  
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Konkani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Marathi-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
  
Please
haluta
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
  
Bye
Heippa
  
बाय (Bāya)
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Maharashtrian Konkani
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Kokan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Varhadi
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Vidarbha
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,000,000.00
  
12
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Khandeshi
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Khandesh
  
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00
  
15
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
71.00 million
  
25
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
68.00 million
  
16
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
3.00 million
  
32
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
मराठी (marāṭhī)
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
  
French Name
finnois
  
marathe
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Marathi
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Marathi people
  
Origin
1543
  
10th century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Maharashtri Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Marathi
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
mr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
mar
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
mar
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
mar
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
mara1378
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
omr
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Finnish and Marathi 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 Marathi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Marathi language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Marathi word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda). Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Marathi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Marathi Difficulty
The Finnish vs Marathi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Marathi 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 Marathi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Marathi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Marathi time required is 4 weeks.