Countries
European Union, Finland
India, Nepal
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Nepal
Second Language
Estonia
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Hindi
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Moi
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Kiitos
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Sorry
Anteeksi
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Heippa
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Doteli
Where They Speak
Finland
Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
India, Nepal
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
finnois
népalais
German Name
Finnisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
Not Available
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Nepali
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
finn1318
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative
Finnish and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Nepali language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Nepali Difficulty
The Finnish vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.