Countries
European Union, Finland
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Russia
Second Language
Estonia
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
- 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.
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
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Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Moi
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Kiitos
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
haluta
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Anteeksi
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Heippa
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Finland
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Olonets
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Novgorod
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Русский
Alternative Names
Suomi
Russki
French Name
finnois
russe
German Name
Finnisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Russians
Language Family
Uralic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Slavic
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
finn1318
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
All Finnish and Russian 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 Finnish and Russian dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Finnish and Russian Speaking population
Finnish and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Finnish and Russian on Finnish vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Russian Language Codes
Finnish and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.