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Yoruba
Yoruba

Serbian
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Countries

Countries

Benin, Nigeria
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

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
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia

Regulated By

Yoruba Academy
Board for Standardization of the Serbian 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.
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.

Similar To

Owo and Itsekiri languages
Bosnian and Croatian Languages

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2930
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

125
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1725
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ẹ n lẹ
Здраво (Zdravo)

Thank You

e dupe
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)

How Are You?

Bawo ni o se wa
Како си? (Kako si?)

Good Night

Kasun layọ o
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)

Good Evening

ka a ale
Добро вече (Dobro veče)

Good Afternoon

e kaasan
Добар дан (Dobar dan)

Good Morning

e kaaro
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)

Please

Jowo
Молим (Molim)

Sorry

binu
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)

Bye

bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)

I Love You

mo nifẹ rẹ
Волим те (Volim te)

Excuse Me

mo tọrọ gafara
Извините (Izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Itsekiri
Prizren-Timok

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Southeastern Serbia

How Many People Speak

500,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ede
Smederevo–Vršac

Where They Speak

Benin, Togo
Serbia

How Many People Speak

800,000.0012,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ulukwumi
Torlakian

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

How Many People Speak

10,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

203
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million8.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

28.00 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

30.00 million12.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Yorùbá
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)

Alternative Names

Yariba, Yooba
Montenegrin

French Name

yoruba
serbe

German Name

Yoruba-Sprache
Serbisch

Pronunciation

[jòɾùbá]
[sr̩̂pskiː]

Ethnicity

Yoruba people
Serbs

History

Origin

4 BC
11th Century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Western Sudanic
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Branch

Kwa
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Yorùbá
Standard Serbian

Language Position

4944
1 120
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Signed Forms

Yoruba Sign Language
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

yo
sr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yor
srp

ISO 639 2/B

yor
srp

ISO 639 3

yor
srp

ISO 639 6

yor
srp

Glottocode

yoru1245
serb1264

Linguasphere

No data available
53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
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Yoruba and Serbian Alphabets

Yoruba and Serbian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Yoruba and Serbian. In Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Serbian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Yoruba and Serbian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Yoruba and Serbian 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 Serbian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Yoruba and Serbian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Yoruba and Serbian Speaking population

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

Yoruba and Serbian Language Codes

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