Countries
Nigeria
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
kedụ
  
Moi
  
Thank You
dalụ
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
ka chi fo
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Biko
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Ndo
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Not Available
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Enuani
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Ngwa
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
22
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
igbo
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Ibo
  
Suomi
  
French Name
igbo
  
finnois
  
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Igbo people
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
30th Century BC
  
1543
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Kwa
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
  
standard Finnish
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ig
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
ibo
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1417
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Igbo and Finnish Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Igbo and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Igbo and Finnish language. Igbo word for "Hello" is kedụ or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Igbo Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Igbo vs Finnish Difficulty
The Igbo vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Igbo Alphabets and Finnish Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Igbo and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Igbo and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Igbo is 52 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.