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Finnish and Ukrainian


Ukrainian and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland   
Ukraine   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

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

Second Language
Estonia   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe   
Europe   

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia   

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland   
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language   

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.
  
  • Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
  • Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages   
Russian and Belarusian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29   
11
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
6   
3

How Many Consonants
13   
3
22   
12

Scripts
Latin   
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
Moi   
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)   

Thank You
Kiitos   
Дякую (Dyakuyu)   

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?   
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)   

Good Night
hyvää yötä   
На добраніч (Na dobranič)   

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa   
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)   

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää   
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)   

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta   
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)   

Please
haluta   
будь ласк   

Sorry
Anteeksi   
вибачте (vybachte)   

Bye
Heippa   
до побачення (do pobachennya)   

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua   
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)   

Excuse Me
Anteeksi   
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish   
Podillian   

Where They Speak
Finland   
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia   

Dialect 2
Rauma   
Volynian   

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma   
Rivne, Volyn   

Dialect 3
Meänkieli   
Steppe   

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden   
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine   

How Many People Speak
60,000.00   
31
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
21   
19
15   
14

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million   
99+
39.00 million   
32

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.46 %   
30

Native Speakers
5.40 million   
99+
39.00 million   
25

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million   
39
Not Available   

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli   
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)   

Alternative Names
Suomi   
Not Available   

French Name
finnois   
ukrainien   

German Name
Finnisch   
Ukrainisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]   
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]   

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns   
Ukrainians   

History

Origin
1543   
1561   

Language Family
Uralic Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric   
Slavic   

Branch
Finnic   
Eastern   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language   
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian   

Standard Forms
standard Finnish   
Modern Ukrainian   

Language Position
Not Available   
26   
22

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish   
Ukrainian Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
fi   
uk   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin   
ukr   

ISO 639 2/B
fin   
ukr   

ISO 639 3
fin   
ukr   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
finn1318   
ukra1253   

Linguasphere
No data available   
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

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

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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All Finnish and Ukrainian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Finnish and Ukrainian dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Ukrainian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Ukrainian Dialects are spoken in different Ukrainian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Ukrainian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Ukrainian dialects include: Podillian , Volynian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Finnish and Ukrainian Speaking population

Finnish and Ukrainian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Ukrainian languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Ukrainian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Ukrainian language is 0.46 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Finnish and Ukrainian on Finnish vs Ukrainian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Ukrainian Language Codes

Finnish and Ukrainian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Ukrainian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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