Countries
European Union, Finland
  
India
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
India
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Old German Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Prakrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sanskrit-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
शुभः सायंकालः
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
शुभ दुपार
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
  
Please
haluta
  
कृपया (kripayā)
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Bye
Heippa
  
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
14.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
14.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Not Available
  
French Name
finnois
  
sanskrit
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Sanskrit
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1543
  
2000 B.C.
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
Vedic Sanskrit
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Sanskrit
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
sa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
san
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
san
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
san
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
sans1269
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Ancient
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Finnish and Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Sanskrit language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Sanskrit word for "Thank You" is धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh). Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Sanskrit Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Sanskrit Difficulty
The Finnish vs Sanskrit difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Sanskrit, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Sanskrit time required is 20 weeks.