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 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
-
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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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)
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2115
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.40 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.40 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
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
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
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