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Malaysian vs Finnish


Finnish vs Malaysian


Countries

Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
3   
12
2   
13

National Language
Malaysia   
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden   

Second Language
Indonesia   
Estonia   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
Thailand   
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   

Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka   
Institute for the Languages of Finland   

Interesting Facts
  • One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
  • Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
  • 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
Indonesian Language   
Estonian and Livonian Languages   

Derived From
Tamil Language   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
26   
8
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
8   
5

How Many Consonants
24   
14
13   
3

Scripts
Latin   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks   
10
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
Hai   
Moi   

Thank You
terima kasih   
Kiitos   

How Are You?
Apa khabar?   
Mitä kuuluu?   

Good Night
Selamat Malam   
hyvää yötä   

Good Evening
Selamat Petang   
Hyvää iltaa   

Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari   
Hyvää iltapäivää   

Good Morning
Selamat pagi   
Hyvää huomenta   

Please
sila   
haluta   

Sorry
maaf   
Anteeksi   

Bye
Selamat tinggal   
Heippa   

I Love You
Saya sayang kamu   
Minä rakastan sinua   

Excuse Me
Maafkan saya   
Anteeksi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Bengkulu   
Colloquial Finnish   

Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra   
Finland   

How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00   
25
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Pekal   
Rauma   

Where They Speak
Indonesia   
Finland, Rauma   

How Many People Speak
30,000.00   
40
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Musi   
Meänkieli   

Where They Speak
Indonesia   
Finland, Sweden   

How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00   
11
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
24   
20
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
175.00 million   
10
5.40 million   
99+

Speaking Population
1.16 %   
14
Not Available   

Native Speakers
77.00 million   
12
5.40 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
98.00 million   
8
0.01 million   
39

Native Name
Bahasa melayu   
suomi / suomen kieli   

Alternative Names
Not Available   
Suomi   

French Name
malais   
finnois   

German Name
Malaiisch   
Finnisch   

Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]   
[ˈsuomi]   

Ethnicity
Not Available   
ethnic Finns   

History

Origin
c. 683 AD   
1543   

Language Family
Austronesian Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Not Available   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay   
standard Finnish   

Language Position
54   
39
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
ms   
fi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
msa   
fin   

ISO 639 2/B
may   
fin   

ISO 639 3
zsm   
fin   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
stan1306   
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
Agglutinative   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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Malaysian and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Malaysian vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Malaysian and Finnish language. History of Malaysian language states that this language originated in c. 683 AD whereas history of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Malaysian and Finnish Language History.

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Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Finnish language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Malaysian vs Finnish Difficulty

The Malaysian vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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