Countries
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
India
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Israel, Mauritius
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
  
- 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
Konkani Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Marathi-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
  
Moi
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
haluta
  
Sorry
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
बाय (Bāya)
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Maharashtrian Konkani
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Kokan
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
2,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Varhadi
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Vidarbha
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00
  
12
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Khandeshi
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Khandesh
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00
  
15
How Many People Speak?
71.00 million
  
25
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
68.00 million
  
16
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million
  
32
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
मराठी (marāṭhī)
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
  
Suomi
  
French Name
marathe
  
finnois
  
German Name
Marathi
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Marathi people
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
10th century
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Indic
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Maharashtri Prakrit
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Marathi
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mr
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mar
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
mar
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
mar
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mara1378
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
omr
  
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
  
Marathi 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 Marathi and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Marathi and Finnish language. Marathi word for "Hello" is हॅलो (Hĕlō) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Marathi Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Marathi vs Finnish Difficulty
The Marathi vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Marathi 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 Marathi and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Marathi and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Marathi is 4 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.