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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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