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Russian vs Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

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

Second Language
Estonia  
Afganistan  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Asia, Europe  

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  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  

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.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
10  
7

How Many Consonants
13  
3
21  
11

Scripts
Latin  
Cyrillic  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

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  
спасибо(spasibo)  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  

Please
haluta  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
Извините(Izvinite)  

Bye
Heippa  
до свидания(do svidaniya)  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
извините(izvinite)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Doukhobor Russian  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
30,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Olonets  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Olonets  

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Novgorod  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Novgorod  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
31
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
13  
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
276.00 million  
6

Speaking Population
Not Available  
2.33 %  
9

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
166.00 million  
8

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
39
110.00 million  
7

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
Русский  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Russki  

French Name
finnois  
russe  

German Name
Finnisch  
Russisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Russians  

History

Origin
1543  
1000 AD  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Slavic  

Branch
Finnic  
Eastern  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
Old East Slavic  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Standard Russian  

Language Position
Not Available  
7  
7

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Signed Russian  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
ru  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
rus  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
rus  

ISO 639 3
fin  
rus  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
finn1318  
russ1263  

Linguasphere
No data available  
53-AAA-ea  

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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Finnish and Russian Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Russian language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD. 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 Finnish and Russian Language History.

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Finnish and Russian 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 Finnish and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Russian language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Finnish vs Russian Difficulty

The Finnish vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Russian 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 Finnish and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.

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