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.
  
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Kannada Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Kannada Script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Namaskara
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Mast Upakara.
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Yencha Ullar?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
yedde rathre
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
yedde baiyya
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
yedde madhyana
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
yedde kaande
  
Please
haluta
  
Daya maltadu
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Yenna thapu aandu
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Barpe
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Kshamisi
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Brahmin tulu
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Tamil Nadu
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Jain
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Tamil Nadu
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Girijan
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Tamil Nadu
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
1.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
1.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Tulu
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
  
French Name
finnois
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Tuluva
  
Origin
1543
  
14
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Dravidian Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Tulu
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
tcy
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
tulu1258
  
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
  
Not Available
  
Finnish and Tulu 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 Tulu greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Tulu language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Tulu word for "Thank You" is Mast Upakara.. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Tulu Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Tulu Difficulty
The Finnish vs Tulu difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Tulu 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 Tulu are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Tulu, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Tulu time required is 44 weeks.