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Finnish and Russian


Countries

Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
4   
11
2   
13

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

Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
33   
15
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10   
7
8   
5

How Many Consonants
21   
11
13   
3

Scripts
Cyrillic   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian   
Colloquial Finnish   

Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan   
Finland   

How Many People Speak
30,000.00   
99+
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   
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
13   
13
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
276.00 million   
6
5.40 million   
99+

Speaking Population
2.33 %   
9
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   

History

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
7   
7
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Signed Russian   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

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   

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All Russian and Finnish Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Russian and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Russian and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Russian are spoken in different Russian Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Russian vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian, Olonets. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Russian and Finnish Speaking population

Russian and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Russian and Finnish on Russian vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Finnish Language Codes

Russian and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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