Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
European Union, Finland
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
-
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Finland
Where They Speak
Olonets
Finland, Rauma
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Finland, Sweden
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Finno-Ugric
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
standard Finnish
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
russ1263
finn1318
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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.