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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland
Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Nigeria

Second Language

Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Equatorial Guinea

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture

Interesting Facts

  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  • 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.

Similar To

Estonian and Livonian Languages
Yoruba and Hausa Languages

Derived From

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-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2936
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

88
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1328
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

43
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks52 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moi
kedụ

Thank You

Kiitos
dalụ

How Are You?

Mitä kuuluu?
kedụ ka ịmere

Good Night

hyvää yötä
ka chi fo

Good Evening

Hyvää iltaa
mgbede ọma

Good Afternoon

Hyvää iltapäivää
ehihie ọma

Good Morning

Hyvää huomenta
ụtụtụ ọma

Please

haluta
Biko

Sorry

Anteeksi
Ndo

Bye

Heippa
Kachifo

I Love You

Minä rakastan sinua
a hụrụ m gị n'anya

Excuse Me

Anteeksi
ngọpụ

Dialects

Dialect 1

Colloquial Finnish
Enuani

Where They Speak

Finland
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Rauma
Ngwa

Where They Speak

Finland, Rauma
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

5,600,000.001,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Meänkieli
Not present

Where They Speak

Finland, Sweden
-

How Many People Speak

60,000.0024.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2120
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.40 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.09 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.40 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.01 million24.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

suomi / suomen kieli
igbo

Alternative Names

Suomi
Ibo

French Name

finnois
igbo

German Name

Finnisch
Ibo-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈsuomi]
[iɡ͡boː]

Ethnicity

ethnic Finns
Igbo people

History

Origin

1543
30th Century BC

Language Family

Uralic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Finno-Ugric
Kwa

Branch

Finnic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Finnic language
No early forms

Standard Forms

standard Finnish
Standard Igbo

Language Position

2257
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Finnish
Igbo Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

fi
ig

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

fin
ibo

ISO 639 2/B

fin
ibo

ISO 639 3

fin
ibo

ISO 639 6

fin
ibo

Glottocode

finn1318
nucl1417

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
-

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative

Finnish and Igbo Alphabets

Finnish and Igbo Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Finnish and Igbo. In Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Igbo Alphabets there are 36 letters. To learn Finnish and Igbo languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Finnish and Igbo languages. The Finnish phonology consist Finnish vowels and Finnish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Finnish greetings vs Igbo greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Finnish and Igbo are Most Spoken Languages.

All Finnish and Igbo Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Finnish and Igbo dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Igbo language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Igbo Dialects are spoken in different Igbo speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Igbo Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Igbo dialects include: Enuani , Ngwa. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Finnish and Igbo Speaking population

Finnish and Igbo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Igbo languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Igbo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Igbo language is 0.09 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Finnish and Igbo on Finnish vs Igbo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Igbo Language Codes

Finnish and Igbo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Igbo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.