Countries
Ukraine
  
Benin, Nigeria
  
National Language
Ukraine
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
Yoruba Academy
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- 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
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
e dupe
  
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Kasun layọ o
  
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
ka a ale
  
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
e kaasan
  
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
e kaaro
  
Please
будь ласк
  
Jowo
  
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
  
binu
  
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
bye
  
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Dialect 1
Podillian
  
Itsekiri
  
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Volynian
  
Ede
  
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
  
Benin, Togo
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Steppe
  
Ulukwumi
  
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
39.00 million
  
32
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
39.00 million
  
25
28.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Yorùbá
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Yariba, Yooba
  
French Name
ukrainien
  
yoruba
  
German Name
Ukrainisch
  
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
  
Yoruba people
  
Origin
1561
  
4 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Western Sudanic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Kwa
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
  
Yorùbá
  
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uk
  
yo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ukr
  
yor
  
ISO 639 2/B
ukr
  
yor
  
ISO 639 3
ukr
  
yor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ukra1253
  
yoru1245
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
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
  
Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian and Yoruba greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Yoruba language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Yoruba word for "Thank You" is e dupe. Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Yoruba Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Yoruba Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Yoruba difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian and Yoruba are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Yoruba, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Yoruba time required is 30 weeks.