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Finnish vs Nepali


Nepali vs Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
India, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

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

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

Alphabets
29  
11
48  
28

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
12  
9

How Many Consonants
13  
3
36  
26

Scripts
Latin  
Devanagari  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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)  

Please
haluta  
कृपया  

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Doteli  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
790,000.00  
30

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Bajhangi  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
India, Nepal  

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Baitadeli  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Nepal  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
31
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
12  
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
30.00 million  
36

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.25 %  
99+

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
25.00 million  
32

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
39
5.00 million  
29

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  

History

Origin
1543  
19 BC  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
Finnic  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Nepali  

Language Position
Not Available  
59  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Signed Nepali  

Scope
Individual  
Individual, Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
ne  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
nep  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
nep  

ISO 639 3
fin  
npi  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
finn1318  
nepa1254  

Linguasphere
No data available  
12  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Agglutinative  

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Finnish and Nepali Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Nepali language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Nepali language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Nepali language states that this language originated in 19 BC. 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 Nepali Language History.

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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.

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