Countries
Benin, Nigeria
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
Lithuania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Poland
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2932
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1212
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1720
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
Sveiki
Thank You
e dupe
Ačiū
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Labanakt
Good Evening
ka a ale
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
Laba diena
Good Morning
e kaaro
Labas rytas
Please
Jowo
Prašom
Sorry
binu
atsiprašau
Bye
bye
Ate
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
500,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ede
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
800,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Curonian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
10,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2010
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
yoruba
lituanien
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Lithuanians
Origin
4 BC
c. 1503
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
-
Branch
Kwa
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Lithuanian
Language Position
4944
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
yo
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
lit
ISO 639 2/B
yor
lit
ISO 639 3
yor
lit
ISO 639 6
yor
lit
Glottocode
yoru1245
lith1251
Linguasphere
No data available
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic