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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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Where They Speak
Olonets
Finland, Rauma
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Finno-Ugric
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
finn1318
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Russian and Finnish 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 Russian and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Finnish language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Finnish Difficulty
The Russian vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Finnish 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 Russian and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.