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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland
Ukraine

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Ukraine

Second Language

Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Europe

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

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

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.
  • 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.

Similar To

Estonian and Livonian Languages
Russian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2933
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

86
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1322
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

46
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moi
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

Kiitos
Дякую (Dyakuyu)

How Are You?

Mitä kuuluu?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)

Good Night

hyvää yötä
На добраніч (Na dobranič)

Good Evening

Hyvää iltaa
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)

Good Afternoon

Hyvää iltapäivää
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)

Good Morning

Hyvää huomenta
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)

Please

haluta
будь ласк

Sorry

Anteeksi
вибачте (vybachte)

Bye

Heippa
до побачення (do pobachennya)

I Love You

Minä rakastan sinua
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)

Excuse Me

Anteeksi
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Colloquial Finnish
Podillian

Where They Speak

Finland
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Rauma
Volynian

Where They Speak

Finland, Rauma
Rivne, Volyn

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.0044,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Meänkieli
Steppe

Where They Speak

Finland, Sweden
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine

How Many People Speak

60,000.0042,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2115
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.40 million39.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.46 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.40 million39.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.01 million30.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

suomi / suomen kieli
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)

Alternative Names

Suomi
Ukrayins'ka Mova

French Name

finnois
ukrainien

German Name

Finnisch
Ukrainisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsuomi]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]

Ethnicity

ethnic Finns
Ukrainians

History

Origin

1543
1561

Language Family

Uralic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
Slavic

Branch

Finnic
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Finnic language
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian

Standard Forms

standard Finnish
Modern Ukrainian

Language Position

2226
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Finnish
Ukrainian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fi
uk

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fin
ukr

ISO 639 2/B

fin
ukr

ISO 639 3

fin
ukr

ISO 639 6

fin
ukr

Glottocode

finn1318
ukra1253

Linguasphere

No data available
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Finnish and Ukrainian Alphabets

Finnish and Ukrainian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Finnish and Ukrainian. In Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Ukrainian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Finnish and Ukrainian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Finnish and Ukrainian languages. The Finnish phonology consist Finnish vowels and Finnish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Finnish greetings vs Ukrainian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Finnish and Ukrainian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Finnish and Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Ukrainian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Ukrainian Dialects are spoken in different Ukrainian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Ukrainian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Ukrainian dialects include: Podillian , Volynian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Finnish and Ukrainian Speaking population

Finnish and Ukrainian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Ukrainian languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Ukrainian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Ukrainian language is 0.46 %. 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 Ukrainian on Finnish vs Ukrainian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Ukrainian Language Codes

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