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Finnish and Yoruba


Yoruba and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Benin, Nigeria  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

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  
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Yoruba Academy  

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.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
Owo and Itsekiri languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29  
11
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
12  
9

How Many Consonants
13  
3
17  
7

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
30 weeks  
10

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
Ẹ n lẹ  

Thank You
Kiitos  
e dupe  

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

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
Kasun layọ o  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
ka a ale  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
e kaasan  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
e kaaro  

Please
haluta  
Jowo  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
binu  

Bye
Heippa  
bye  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
mo nifẹ rẹ  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
mo tọrọ gafara  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Itsekiri  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Nigeria  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
500,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Ede  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Benin, Togo  

How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00  
99+
800,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Ulukwumi  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Nigeria  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
99+
10,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
20  
18

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.42 %  
34

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
28.00 million  
29

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
99+
30.00 million  
26

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
Yorùbá  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Yariba, Yooba  

French Name
finnois  
yoruba  

German Name
Finnisch  
Yoruba-Sprache  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[jòɾùbá]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Yoruba people  

History

Origin
1543  
4 BC  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Niger-Congo Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Western Sudanic  

Branch
Finnic  
Kwa  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Yorùbá  

Language Position
22  
20
49  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Yoruba Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
yo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
yor  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
yor  

ISO 639 3
fin  
yor  

ISO 639 6
fin  
yor  

Glottocode
finn1318  
yoru1245  

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
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Analytic, Isolating  

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All Finnish and Yoruba 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 Yoruba dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Yoruba language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Yoruba Dialects are spoken in different Yoruba speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Yoruba Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Yoruba dialects include: Itsekiri , Ede. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Finnish and Yoruba Speaking population

Finnish and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 %. 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 Yoruba on Finnish vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Yoruba Language Codes

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

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