Countries
Benin, 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
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 in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Ede
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.