Countries
Benin, Nigeria
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
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 croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
  
bok
  
Thank You
e dupe
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
ka a ale
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
e kaaro
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Jowo
  
molim
  
Sorry
binu
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
bye
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 2
Ede
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
Yorùbá
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
yoruba
  
croate
  
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
  
Croats
  
Origin
4 BC
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Kwa
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
yo
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
yor
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
yor
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
yor
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
yoru1245
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Yoruba and Croatian 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 Yoruba and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Yoruba and Croatian language. Yoruba word for "Hello" is Ẹ n lẹ or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Yoruba Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Yoruba vs Croatian Difficulty
The Yoruba vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Yoruba Alphabets and Croatian 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 Yoruba and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Yoruba and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Yoruba is 30 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.