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Yoruba and Russian


Russian and Yoruba


Countries

Countries
Benin, Nigeria   
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
4   
11

National Language
Nigeria   
Russia   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Afganistan   

Speaking Continents
Africa   
Asia, Europe   

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   

Regulated By
Yoruba Academy   
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences   

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.
  

Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages   
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200   
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
29   
11
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12   
9
10   
7

How Many Consonants
17   
7
21   
11

Scripts
Latin   
Cyrillic   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks   
9
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
Ẹ n lẹ   
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)   

Thank You
e dupe   
спасибо(spasibo)   

How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa   
Как дела? (Kak dela?)   

Good Night
Kasun layọ o   
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)   

Good Evening
ka a ale   
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)   

Good Afternoon
e kaasan   
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')   

Good Morning
e kaaro   
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)   

Please
Jowo   
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)   

Sorry
binu   
Извините(Izvinite)   

Bye
bye   
до свидания(do svidaniya)   

I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ   
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)   

Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara   
извините(izvinite)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Itsekiri   
Doukhobor Russian   

Where They Speak
Nigeria   
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan   

How Many People Speak
500,000.00   
34
30,000.00   
99+

Dialect 2
Ede   
Olonets   

Where They Speak
Benin, Togo   
Olonets   

How Many People Speak
800,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Ulukwumi   
Novgorod   

Where They Speak
Nigeria   
Novgorod   

How Many People Speak
10,000.00   
34
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
20   
18
13   
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
30.00 million   
36
276.00 million   
6

Speaking Population
0.42 %   
32
2.33 %   
9

Native Speakers
28.00 million   
29
166.00 million   
8

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
110.00 million   
7

Native Name
Yorùbá   
Русский   

Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba   
Russki   

French Name
yoruba   
russe   

German Name
Yoruba-Sprache   
Russisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]   

Ethnicity
Yoruba people   
Russians   

History

Origin
4 BC   
1000 AD   

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family   
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family   

Subgroup
Western Sudanic   
Slavic   

Branch
Kwa   
Eastern   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old East Slavic   

Standard Forms
Yorùbá   
Standard Russian   

Language Position
49   
36
7   
7

Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language   
Signed Russian   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
yo   
ru   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
yor   
rus   

ISO 639 2/B
yor   
rus   

ISO 639 3
yor   
rus   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
yoru1245   
russ1263   

Linguasphere
No data available   
53-AAA-ea   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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All Yoruba and Russian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Yoruba and Russian dialects. Various dialects of Yoruba and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Yoruba are spoken in different Yoruba Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Yoruba vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Yoruba dialects include: Itsekiri, Ede. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Yoruba and Russian Speaking population

Yoruba and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Yoruba and Russian on Yoruba vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Yoruba and Russian Language Codes

Yoruba and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Yoruba and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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