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Ukrainian vs Finnish


Finnish vs Ukrainian


Countries

Countries
Ukraine   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Ukraine   
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Estonia   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia   
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   

Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language   
Institute for the Languages of Finland   

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • 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
Russian and Belarusian Languages   
Estonian and Livonian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
33   
15
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
8   
5

How Many Consonants
22   
12
13   
3

Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
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
Дякую (Dyakuyu)   
Kiitos   

How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)   
Mitä kuuluu?   

Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)   
hyvää yötä   

Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)   
Hyvää iltaa   

Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)   
Hyvää iltapäivää   

Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)   
Hyvää huomenta   

Please
будь ласк   
haluta   

Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)   
Anteeksi   

Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)   
Heippa   

I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)   
Minä rakastan sinua   

Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)   
Anteeksi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Podillian   
Colloquial Finnish   

Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia   
Finland   

Dialect 2
Volynian   
Rauma   

Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn   
Finland, Rauma   

Dialect 3
Steppe   
Meänkieli   

Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine   
Finland, Sweden   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
15   
14
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
39.00 million   
32
5.40 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.46 %   
30
Not Available   

Native Speakers
39.00 million   
25
5.40 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
0.01 million   
39

Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)   
suomi / suomen kieli   

Alternative Names
Not Available   
Suomi   

French Name
ukrainien   
finnois   

German Name
Ukrainisch   
Finnisch   

Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]   
[ˈsuomi]   

Ethnicity
Ukrainians   
ethnic Finns   

History

Origin
1561   
1543   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Slavic   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Eastern   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian   
standard Finnish   

Language Position
26   
22
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
uk   
fi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ukr   
fin   

ISO 639 2/B
ukr   
fin   

ISO 639 3
ukr   
fin   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
ukra1253   
finn1318   

Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq   
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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Ukrainian and Finnish Language History

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

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

Ukrainian vs Finnish Difficulty

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

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