Countries
Benin, Nigeria
  
Estonia, European Union
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Estonia, Gambia
  
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
  
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
  
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
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.
  
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Finnish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Tere
  
Thank You
e dupe
  
aitäh
  
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
  
kuidas sul läheb
  
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
  
Head ööd
  
Good Evening
ka a ale
  
Tere õhtust
  
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
  
Tere päevast
  
Good Morning
e kaaro
  
Tere hommikust
  
Please
Jowo
  
Palun
  
Sorry
binu
  
Vabandust
  
Bye
bye
  
Head aega
  
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
ma armastan sind
  
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Vabandage
  
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
  
Keskmurre
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Ede
  
Tartu
  
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
  
Georgia, South Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
  
Idamurre
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
1.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
0.95 million
  
99+
Native Name
Yorùbá
  
eesti keel
  
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
  
Eesti keel
  
French Name
yoruba
  
estonien
  
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Estnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
  
Estonians
  
Origin
4 BC
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Kwa
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
  
Estonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Estonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
yo
  
et
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
yor
  
est
  
ISO 639 2/B
yor
  
est
  
ISO 639 3
yor
  
est
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
yoru1245
  
esto1258
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Agglutinative
  
Yoruba and Estonian 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 Estonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Yoruba and Estonian language. Yoruba word for "Hello" is Ẹ n lẹ or Estonian word for "Thank You" is aitäh. Find more of such common Yoruba Greetings and Estonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Yoruba vs Estonian Difficulty
The Yoruba vs Estonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Yoruba Alphabets and Estonian 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 Estonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Yoruba and Estonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Yoruba is 30 weeks while to learn Estonian time required is 44 weeks.