1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Russia
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Moi
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
hyvää yötä
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
haluta
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
Anteeksi
Извините(Izvinite)
3.10 Bye
Heippa
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Anteeksi
извините(izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Doukhobor Russian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Finland
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.40 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.40 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
0.01 million110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Русский
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Standard Russian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Russian
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic