Countries
India, Karnataka, India
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Karnataka, India
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Goa
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Andra Pradesh, Goa, kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Various academies and the Government of Karnataka
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Kannada is the third oldest language after Sanskrit and Tamil of India
- Kannada language is only Indian language which got maximum i.e. 8 GyanaPeetha Awards.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Telugu
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kannada Script
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ಹಲೋ (Halō)
  
Moi
  
Thank You
ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು (Dhan'yavādagaḷu)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
ನೀವು ಹೇಗಿದ್ದೀರಿ? (Nīvu hēgiddīri?)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
ಶುಭ ರಾತ್ರಿ (Śubha rātri)
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
ಶುಭ ಸಂಜೆ (Śubha san̄je)
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
ಉತ್ತಮ ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನ (Uttama madhyāhna)
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
ಶುಭೋದಯ (Śubhōdaya)
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು (Dayaviṭṭu)
  
haluta
  
Sorry
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (Kṣamisi)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
ಬೈ (Bai)
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
ನಾನು ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ (Nānu ninna prītisuttēne)
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
ಕ್ಷಮಿಸಿ (kshamisi)
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Badaga
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu, The Nilgiris
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Urali
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
kerala
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Kurumba
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak?
49.00 million
  
29
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
38.00 million
  
26
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million
  
21
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa)
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Banglori, Canarese, Havyaka, Kanarese, Madrassi
  
Suomi
  
French Name
kannada
  
finnois
  
German Name
Kannada
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈkʌnnəɖɑː]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Kannadiga
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
c. 450
  
1543
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Kannada, Kannada
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Modern Kannada
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
kn
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kan
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
kan
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
kan
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1305
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Kannada and Finnish 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 Kannada and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kannada and Finnish language. Kannada word for "Hello" is ಹಲೋ (Halō) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Kannada Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kannada vs Finnish Difficulty
The Kannada vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kannada Alphabets and Finnish 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 Kannada and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kannada and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kannada is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.