Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Russia
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Moi
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
Русский
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Suomi
  
French Name
russe
  
finnois
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic