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Yoruba vs Finnish


Finnish vs Yoruba


Countries

Countries
Benin, Nigeria   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
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
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America   
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   

Regulated By
Yoruba Academy   
Institute for the Languages of Finland   

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.
  

Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages   
Estonian and Livonian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200   
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
29   
11
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12   
9
8   
5

How Many Consonants
17   
7
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
30 weeks   
9
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
Ẹ n lẹ   
Moi   

Thank You
e dupe   
Kiitos   

How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa   
Mitä kuuluu?   

Good Night
Kasun layọ o   
hyvää yötä   

Good Evening
ka a ale   
Hyvää iltaa   

Good Afternoon
e kaasan   
Hyvää iltapäivää   

Good Morning
e kaaro   
Hyvää huomenta   

Please
Jowo   
haluta   

Sorry
binu   
Anteeksi   

Bye
bye   
Heippa   

I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ   
Minä rakastan sinua   

Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara   
Anteeksi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Itsekiri   
Colloquial Finnish   

Where They Speak
Nigeria   
Finland   

How Many People Speak
500,000.00   
34
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Ede   
Rauma   

Where They Speak
Benin, Togo   
Finland, Rauma   

How Many People Speak
800,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Ulukwumi   
Meänkieli   

Where They Speak
Nigeria   
Finland, Sweden   

How Many People Speak
10,000.00   
34
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
20   
18
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
30.00 million   
36
5.40 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.42 %   
32
Not Available   

Native Speakers
28.00 million   
29
5.40 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
0.01 million   
39

Native Name
Yorùbá   
suomi / suomen kieli   

Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba   
Suomi   

French Name
yoruba   
finnois   

German Name
Yoruba-Sprache   
Finnisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ˈsuomi]   

Ethnicity
Yoruba people   
ethnic Finns   

History

Origin
4 BC   
1543   

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Western Sudanic   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Kwa   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Yorùbá   
standard Finnish   

Language Position
49   
36
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
yo   
fi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
yor   
fin   

ISO 639 2/B
yor   
fin   

ISO 639 3
yor   
fin   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
yoru1245   
finn1318   

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
Analytic, Isolating   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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Yoruba and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Yoruba vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Yoruba and Finnish language. History of Yoruba language states that this language originated in 4 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 Yoruba and Finnish Language History.

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Yoruba 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 Yoruba and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Yoruba and Finnish language. Yoruba word for "Hello" is Ẹ n lẹ or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Yoruba Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Yoruba vs Finnish Difficulty

The Yoruba vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Yoruba 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 Yoruba and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Yoruba and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Yoruba is 30 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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