Countries
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
62
0
46
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National Language
Moldova, Romania
Nigeria
Second Language
Kazakhstan, Russia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
Yoruba Academy
Interesting Facts
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
- 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
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
Latin
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3129
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
712
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2017
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
alo
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
multumesc
e dupe
How Are You?
ce mai faci?
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
noapte Buna
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
buna Seara
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
buna Ziua
e kaasan
Good Morning
bună Dimineața
e kaaro
Please
Vă Rog
Jowo
Sorry
scuze
binu
Bye
La revedere
bye
I Love You
Te iubesc
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
Scuza-Ma
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Aromanian
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
250,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Megleno-Romanian
Ede
Where They Speak
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
5,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Istro-Romanian
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Croatia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
1,400.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1020
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
24.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Română
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
roumain; moldave
yoruba
German Name
Rumänisch
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[roˈmɨnə]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Romanians
Yoruba people
Origin
1521
4 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Western Sudanic
Branch
-
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Romanian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Romanian
Yorùbá
Language Position
3649
1
120
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Signed Forms
Romanian Sign Language
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ro
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ron
yor
ISO 639 2/B
rum
yor
ISO 639 3
ron
yor
ISO 639 6
ron
yor
Glottocode
roma1327
yoru1245
Linguasphere
51-AAD-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating