Countries
India, Nepal
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
India, Nepal
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Nepal
  
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
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
  
- 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
Bhojpuri Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
pranam
  
Moi
  
Thank You
dhanyabad
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Śubharātri
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
shubh sandhya
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Suprabhaat
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
kripaya
  
haluta
  
Sorry
maf karai
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Alavidā
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
kripaya
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Tharuwat
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Madhubani
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
North India
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Khortha
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Deoghar, France
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
32.00 million
  
35
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
27.00 million
  
30
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.80 million
  
33
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
Suomi
  
French Name
maithili
  
finnois
  
German Name
Maithili
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Maithil
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
14th century
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Standard Maithili
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mai
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
mai
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
mai
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mait1250
  
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
  
Maithili 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 Maithili and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maithili and Finnish language. Maithili word for "Hello" is pranam or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Maithili Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maithili vs Finnish Difficulty
The Maithili vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maithili 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 Maithili and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maithili and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maithili is Not Available while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.