Countries
European Union, Finland
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
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 in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Finland
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Olonets
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
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
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Slavic
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Standard Russian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
finn1318
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
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.