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