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Nepali vs Finnish


Finnish vs Nepali


Countries

Countries
India, Nepal  
European Union, Finland  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

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

Second Language
Republic of Brazil  
Estonia  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
People's Republic of China  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  

Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal  
Institute for the Languages of Finland  

Interesting Facts
  • Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
  • Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese 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  
Estonian and Livonian Languages  

Derived From
Sanskrit Language  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
48  
28
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12  
9
8  
5

How Many Consonants
36  
26
13  
3

Scripts
Devanagari  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)  
Moi  

Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)  
Kiitos  

How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)  
Mitä kuuluu?  

Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)  
hyvää yötä  

Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)  
Hyvää iltaa  

Good Afternoon
Good afternoon  
Hyvää iltapäivää  

Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)  
Hyvää huomenta  

Please
कृपया  
haluta  

Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  
Anteeksi  

Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)  
Heippa  

I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)  
Minä rakastan sinua  

Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)  
Anteeksi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doteli  
Colloquial Finnish  

Where They Speak
Nepal  
Finland  

How Many People Speak
790,000.00  
30
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Bajhangi  
Rauma  

Where They Speak
India, Nepal  
Finland, Rauma  

Dialect 3
Baitadeli  
Meänkieli  

Where They Speak
Nepal  
Finland, Sweden  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
60,000.00  
31

Total No. Of Dialects
12  
12
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
30.00 million  
36
5.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.25 %  
99+
Not Available  

Native Speakers
25.00 million  
32
5.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
5.00 million  
29
0.01 million  
39

Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)  
suomi / suomen kieli  

Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate  
Suomi  

French Name
népalais  
finnois  

German Name
Nepali  
Finnisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[ˈsuomi]  

Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu  
ethnic Finns  

History

Origin
19 BC  
1543  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Uralic Family  

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian  
Finno-Ugric  

Branch
Indic  
Finnic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha  
Proto-Finnic language  

Standard Forms
Nepali  
standard Finnish  

Language Position
59  
99+
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Signed Nepali  
Signed Finnish  

Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
ne  
fi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
nep  
fin  

ISO 639 2/B
nep  
fin  

ISO 639 3
npi  
fin  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
nepa1254  
finn1318  

Linguasphere
12  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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Nepali and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Nepali vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Nepali and Finnish language. History of Nepali language states that this language originated in 19 BC 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 Nepali and Finnish Language History.

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

Nepali vs Finnish Difficulty

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

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