Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Benin, Nigeria
  
National Language
Russia
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Yoruba Academy
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
e dupe
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Kasun layọ o
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
ka a ale
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
e kaasan
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
e kaaro
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Jowo
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
binu
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
bye
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Itsekiri
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Nigeria
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Ede
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Benin, Togo
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Ulukwumi
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
28.00 million
  
29
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Yorùbá
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Yariba, Yooba
  
French Name
russe
  
yoruba
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Yoruba people
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
4 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Western Sudanic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Kwa
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Yorùbá
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
yo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
yor
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
yor
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
yor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
yoru1245
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating