Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Ukraine
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2933
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1722
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
e dupe
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
ka a ale
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
e kaaro
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Jowo
будь ласк
Sorry
binu
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Podillian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
500,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ede
Volynian
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
800,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Steppe
Where They Speak
Nigeria
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
10,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2015
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
yoruba
ukrainien
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Ukrainians
Origin
4 BC
1561
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Slavic
Branch
Kwa
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
4926
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
yo
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
yor
ukr
ISO 639 3
yor
ukr
ISO 639 6
yor
ukr
Glottocode
yoru1245
ukra1253
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic