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Finnish vs Russian


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
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200   
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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