1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland
Benin, Nigeria
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Nigeria
1.4 Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Yoruba Academy
1.8 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.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
1.9 Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Owo and Itsekiri languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.7 Phonology
2.7.1 How Many Vowels
3.2.1 How Many Consonants
3.4 Scripts
3.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
3.6 Hard to Learn
3.6.1 Language Levels
3.9.2 Time Taken to Learn
4 Greetings
4.1 Hello
4.2 Thank You
4.3 How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Bawo ni o se wa
4.4 Good Night
4.5 Good Evening
4.6 Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
e kaasan
4.7 Good Morning
4.8 Please
4.9 Sorry
4.10 Bye
4.11 I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
mo nifẹ rẹ
4.12 Excuse Me
5 Dialects
5.1 Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Itsekiri
5.1.1 Where They Speak
5.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA500,000.00
1.5
960000000
6.13 Dialect 2
7.1.1 Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Benin, Togo
7.1.3 How Many People Speak
NA800,000.00
700
80000000
7.3 Dialect 3
7.3.1 Where They Speak
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000.0010,000.00
1400
96000000
7.5 Total No. Of Dialects
8 How Many People Speak
8.1 How Many People Speak?
5.40 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
9.2 Speaking Population
9.4 Native Speakers
5.40 million28.00 million
0.13
873
9.5.1 Second Language Speakers
9.5.3 Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
Yorùbá
9.5.4 Alternative Names
9.5.5 French Name
9.5.6 German Name
9.6 Pronunciation
9.7 Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Yoruba people
10 History
10.1 Origin
10.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
Niger-Congo Family
10.2.1 Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Western Sudanic
10.2.2 Branch
10.3 Language Forms
10.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early forms
10.3.2 Standard Forms
10.3.3 Language Position
11.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Yoruba Sign Language
11.4 Scope
12 Code
12.1 ISO 639 1
12.2 ISO 639 2
12.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
12.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
12.3 ISO 639 3
12.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
12.5 Glottocode
12.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
12.7 Types of Language
12.7.1 Language Type
12.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
12.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating