Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Benin, 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
  
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Yoruba Academy
  
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.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
e dupe
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Kasun layọ o
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
ka a ale
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
e kaasan
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
e kaaro
  
Please
haluta
  
Jowo
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
binu
  
Bye
Heippa
  
bye
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Itsekiri
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Ede
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Benin, Togo
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Ulukwumi
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
29
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Yorùbá
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Yariba, Yooba
  
French Name
finnois
  
yoruba
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Yoruba people
  
Origin
1543
  
4 BC
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Western Sudanic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Kwa
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Yorùbá
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
yo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
yor
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
yor
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
yor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
yoru1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Finnish and Yoruba Speaking population
Finnish and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 %. 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 Yoruba on Finnish vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Yoruba Language Codes
Finnish and Yoruba language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Yoruba Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.