Countries
India, Pakistan
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
India, Pakistan
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
  
- 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
Hindi and Urdu Languages
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Kashmiri-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Assalām ‘alaikum
  
Moi
  
Thank You
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Not Available
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Hach ch'i
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Not Available
  
haluta
  
Sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Khuda hāfiz
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Kashtawari
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Poguli
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Rambani
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.60 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.42 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
  
Suomi
  
French Name
kashmiri
  
finnois
  
German Name
Kaschmiri
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[kəːʃur]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Kashmiris or koshur
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
12th Century
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Indic
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Kashmiri
  
standard Finnish
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ks
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kas
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
kas
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
kas
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kash1277
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Kashmiri 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 Kashmiri and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kashmiri and Finnish language. Kashmiri word for "Hello" is Assalām ‘alaikum or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Kashmiri Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kashmiri vs Finnish Difficulty
The Kashmiri vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kashmiri 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 Kashmiri and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kashmiri and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kashmiri is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.