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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

42
0 46
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National Language

Russia
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language

Afganistan
Estonia

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute for the Languages of Finland

Interesting Facts

  • 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.
  • 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

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3329
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

108
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2113
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

64
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Moi

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
Kiitos

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Hyvää huomenta

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
haluta

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
Anteeksi

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
Heippa

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Finland

How Many People Speak

30,000.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Rauma

Where They Speak

Olonets
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

Novgorod
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1321
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

Russki
Suomi

French Name

russe
finnois

German Name

Russisch
Finnisch

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

Russians
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

1000 AD
1543

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Finno-Ugric

Branch

Eastern
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
standard Finnish

Language Position

722
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
Signed Finnish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
fin

ISO 639 2/B

rus
fin

ISO 639 3

rus
fin

ISO 639 6

rus
fin

Glottocode

russ1263
finn1318

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
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

Russian and Finnish Alphabets

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

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

Russian and Finnish Speaking population

Russian and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. 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 Russian and Finnish on Russian vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Finnish Language Codes

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