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
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Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
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
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
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Russki
Yariba, Yooba
German Name
Russisch
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Russians
Yoruba people
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Western Sudanic
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
yoru1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Russian and Yoruba 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 Russian and Yoruba greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Yoruba language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Yoruba word for "Thank You" is e dupe. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Yoruba Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Yoruba Difficulty
The Russian vs Yoruba difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Yoruba 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 Russian and Yoruba are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Yoruba, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Yoruba time required is 30 weeks.