Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Ukraine
  
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 in
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Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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)
  
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
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
32
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.