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Finnish vs Ukrainian


Ukrainian vs 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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Finnish and Ukrainian Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Ukrainian language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Ukrainian language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Ukrainian language states that this language originated in 1561. 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 Ukrainian Language History.

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

Finnish vs Ukrainian Difficulty

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

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