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Countries

Countries

Nigeria
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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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

Equatorial Guinea
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By

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

Interesting Facts

  • 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.
  • 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

Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3629
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

88
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2813
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

52 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

kedụ
Moi

Thank You

dalụ
Kiitos

How Are You?

kedụ ka ịmere
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

ka chi fo
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

mgbede ọma
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

ehihie ọma
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

ụtụtụ ọma
Hyvää huomenta

Please

Biko
haluta

Sorry

Ndo
Anteeksi

Bye

Kachifo
Heippa

I Love You

a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

ngọpụ
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Enuani
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Finland

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ngwa
Rauma

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not present
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

-
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

24.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2021
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.09 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

24.00 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

igbo
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

Ibo
Suomi

French Name

igbo
finnois

German Name

Ibo-Sprache
Finnisch

Pronunciation

[iɡ͡boː]
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

Igbo people
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

30th Century BC
1543

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

Kwa
Finno-Ugric

Branch

-
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

Standard Igbo
standard Finnish

Language Position

5722
1 120
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Signed Forms

Igbo Sign Language
Signed Finnish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ig
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ibo
fin

ISO 639 2/B

ibo
fin

ISO 639 3

ibo
fin

ISO 639 6

ibo
fin

Glottocode

nucl1417
finn1318

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Igbo and Finnish Alphabets

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

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

Igbo and Finnish Speaking population

Igbo and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Igbo and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Igbo and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Igbo language is 0.09 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. 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 Igbo and Finnish on Igbo vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Igbo and Finnish Language Codes

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