Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
Benin, Nigeria
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Yoruba Academy
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Finnish
  
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
e dupe
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
Kasun layọ o
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
ka a ale
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
e kaasan
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
e kaaro
  
Please
Palun
  
Jowo
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
binu
  
Bye
Head aega
  
bye
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Itsekiri
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Ede
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Benin, Togo
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Ulukwumi
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
29
Native Name
eesti keel
  
Yorùbá
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Yariba, Yooba
  
French Name
estonien
  
yoruba
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Yoruba people
  
Origin
13th century
  
4 BC
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Western Sudanic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Kwa
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Yorùbá
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
yo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
yor
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
yor
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
yor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
yoru1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Estonian and Yoruba Speaking population
Estonian and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Estonian and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Estonian and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Estonian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 %. 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 Estonian and Yoruba on Estonian vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Estonian and Yoruba Language Codes
Estonian and Yoruba language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Estonian and Yoruba Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.