1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1.8 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.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
ka a ale
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
e kaasan
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
e kaaro
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
Jowo
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
извините(izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Doukhobor Russian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Russian
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic