1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Benin, Nigeria
European Union, Finland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nigeria
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Institute for the Languages of Finland
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
1.9 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Mitä kuuluu?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
e kaasan
Hyvää iltapäivää
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Minä rakastan sinua
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Colloquial Finnish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Finland, Rauma
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.0060,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million5.40 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million5.40 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Yorùbá
suomi / suomen kieli
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Yoruba people
ethnic Finns
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Uralic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Finno-Ugric
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Finnish
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative, Synthetic