Countries
India
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
India
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
  
- 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
Bengali and Assamese
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Oriya-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
  
Moi
  
Thank You
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Not Available
  
haluta
  
Sorry
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Baleswari
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Ganjami
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Kosli
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak?
33.00 million
  
34
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
33.00 million
  
28
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
  
Suomi
  
French Name
oriya
  
finnois
  
German Name
Oriya-Sprache
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈoɽia]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Odias
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
3 BC
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Indic
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Standard Odia
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
or
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ori
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
ori
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
ori
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
macr1269
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
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
  
Oriya 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 Oriya and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Oriya and Finnish language. Oriya word for "Hello" is ନମସ୍କାର (namascara) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Oriya Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Oriya vs Finnish Difficulty
The Oriya vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Oriya 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 Oriya and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Oriya and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Oriya is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.