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Finnish and Igbo


Igbo and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Nigeria  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Nigeria  

Second Language
Estonia  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Africa  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Equatorial Guinea  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture  

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 Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
  • Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Not Available  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
36  
18

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
8  
5

How Many Consonants
13  
3
28  
18

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
52 weeks  
12

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
kedụ  

Thank You
Kiitos  
dalụ  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
kedụ ka ịmere  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
ka chi fo  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
mgbede ọma  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
ehihie ọma  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
ụtụtụ ọma  

Please
haluta  
Biko  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
Ndo  

Bye
Heippa  
Not Available  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
ngọpụ  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Enuani  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Nigeria  

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Ngwa  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Nigeria  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,500,000.00  
22

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Not present  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Not Available  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
31
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
20  
18

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
25.00 million  
40

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
25.00 million  
32

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
39
Not Available  

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
igbo  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Ibo  

French Name
finnois  
igbo  

German Name
Finnisch  
Ibo-Sprache  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[iɡ͡boː]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Igbo people  

History

Origin
1543  
30th Century BC  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Niger-Congo Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Kwa  

Branch
Finnic  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Standard Igbo  

Language Position
Not Available  
57  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
ig  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
ibo  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
ibo  

ISO 639 3
fin  
ibo  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
finn1318  
nucl1417  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Agglutinative  

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

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Finnish and Igbo Speaking population

Finnish and Igbo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Igbo languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Igbo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Igbo language is Not Available. 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 Igbo on Finnish vs Igbo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Igbo Language Codes

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

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