Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
  
- 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
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
Moi
  
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
haluta
  
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Mappila
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
France, kerala
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million
  
33
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
38.00 million
  
26
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
Suomi
  
French Name
malayalam
  
finnois
  
German Name
Malayalam
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Malayali
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1543
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early form
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Malayalam
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ml
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mal
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
mal
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
mal
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mala1464
  
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
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Malayalam 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 Malayalam and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malayalam and Finnish language. Malayalam word for "Hello" is ഹലോ (halēā) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Malayalam Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malayalam vs Finnish Difficulty
The Malayalam vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malayalam 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 Malayalam and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malayalam and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malayalam is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.