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Countries

Countries

Benin, Nigeria
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
Russia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Yoruba Academy
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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.
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.

Similar To

Owo and Itsekiri languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

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Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2933
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1210
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1721
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ẹ n lẹ
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

e dupe
спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

Bawo ni o se wa
Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

Kasun layọ o
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

ka a ale
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

e kaasan
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

e kaaro
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

Jowo
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

binu
Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

mo nifẹ rẹ
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

mo tọrọ gafara
извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Itsekiri
Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

500,000.0030,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ede
Olonets

Where They Speak

Benin, Togo
Olonets

How Many People Speak

800,000.00154,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ulukwumi
Novgorod

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Novgorod

How Many People Speak

10,000.00154,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2013
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million276.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %2.33 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

28.00 million166.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

30.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Yorùbá
Русский

Alternative Names

Yariba, Yooba
Russki

French Name

yoruba
russe

German Name

Yoruba-Sprache
Russisch

Pronunciation

[jòɾùbá]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

Yoruba people
Russians

History

Origin

4 BC
1000 AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

Western Sudanic
Slavic

Branch

Kwa
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

Yorùbá
Standard Russian

Language Position

497
1 120
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Signed Forms

Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Russian

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

yo
ru

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yor
rus

ISO 639 2/B

yor
rus

ISO 639 3

yor
rus

ISO 639 6

yor
rus

Glottocode

yoru1245
russ1263

Linguasphere

No data available
53-AAA-ea

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic

Yoruba and Russian Alphabets

Yoruba and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Yoruba and Russian. In Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Yoruba and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Yoruba and Russian languages. The Yoruba phonology consist Yoruba vowels and Yoruba consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Yoruba greetings vs Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Yoruba and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Yoruba and Russian Speaking population

Yoruba and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Yoruba and Russian on Yoruba vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Yoruba and Russian Language Codes

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