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Igbo vs Finnish


Finnish vs Igbo


Countries

Countries
Nigeria   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

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

Alphabets in
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
36   
18
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
8   
5

How Many Consonants
28   
18
13   
3

Scripts
Latin   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks   
12
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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   

Dialects

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   
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
20   
18
21   
19

How Many People Speak

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   

History

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
57   
99+
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

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   

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Igbo and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Igbo vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Igbo and Finnish language. History of Igbo language states that this language originated in 30th Century BC whereas history of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Igbo and Finnish Language History.

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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.

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