Countries
Thailand
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Thailand
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
  
- 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
Lao Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Khmer Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Thai-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Thai
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
  
Moi
  
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
โปรด (Pord)
  
haluta
  
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Isan
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Isan
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Northern Thai
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
13
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Southern Thai
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
8
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
20.00 million
  
37
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million
  
15
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
ภาษาไทย
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
  
Suomi
  
French Name
thaï
  
finnois
  
German Name
Thailändisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
1283 CE
  
1543
  
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Tai
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Thai
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Thai
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
th
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tha
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
tha
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
tha
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
thai1261
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Thai 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 Thai and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Thai and Finnish language. Thai word for "Hello" is สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Thai Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Thai vs Finnish Difficulty
The Thai vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Thai 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 Thai and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Thai and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Thai is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.