Countries
Countries
European Union, Finland
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
2
13
2
13
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
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
Alphabets
29
11
29
11
Phonology
How Many Vowels
8
5
12
9
How Many Consonants
13
3
17
7
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
30 weeks
9
Greetings
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
Dialects
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Finland
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
Not Available
500,000.00
34
Dialect 2
Rauma
Ede
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
Not Available
800,000.00
27
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
60,000.00
31
10,000.00
34
Total No. Of Dialects
21
19
20
18
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
99+
30.00 million
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
0.42 %
32
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
History
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
49
36
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
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
