Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
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
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Yorùbá
Русский
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Russki
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Russisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Russians
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Slavic
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
yoru1245
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic
Yoruba and Russian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Yoruba and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Yoruba and Russian language. Yoruba word for "Hello" is Ẹ n lẹ or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Yoruba Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Yoruba vs Russian Difficulty
The Yoruba vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Yoruba Alphabets and Russian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Yoruba and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Yoruba and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Yoruba is 30 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.