Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Nigeria
  
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 in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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
Not Available
  
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.
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.