Countries
Estonia, European Union
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Yoruba Academy
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- 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
Finnish
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2729
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
912
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1817
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
aitäh
e dupe
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
Head ööd
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
e kaasan
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
e kaaro
Please
Palun
Jowo
Sorry
Vabandust
binu
Bye
Head aega
bye
I Love You
ma armastan sind
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
Vabandage
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Ede
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
820
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.42 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.95 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
estonien
yoruba
German Name
Estnisch
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Yoruba people
Origin
13th century
4 BC
Language Family
Uralic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Western Sudanic
Branch
Finnic
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Estonian
Yorùbá
Language Position
2249
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
yor
ISO 639 2/B
est
yor
ISO 639 3
est
yor
ISO 639 6
est
yor
Glottocode
esto1258
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
Analytic, Isolating