Countries
Countries
Benin, Nigeria
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
2
13
2
13
National Language
Nigeria
Lithuania
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
Poland
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Commission of the Lithuanian 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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Latvian
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
Alphabets
29
11
32
14
Phonology
How Many Vowels
12
9
12
9
How Many Consonants
17
7
20
10
Scripts
Latin
Latin
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
Sveiki
Thank You
e dupe
Ačiū
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Labanakt
Good Evening
ka a ale
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
Laba diena
Good Morning
e kaaro
Labas rytas
Please
Jowo
Prašom
Sorry
binu
atsiprašau
Bye
bye
Ate
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Atsiprašau
Dialects
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
500,000.00
34
500,000.00
34
Dialect 2
Ede
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
800,000.00
27
Not Available
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Curonian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
10,000.00
34
Not Available
Total No. Of Dialects
20
18
10
10
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
36
3.00 million
99+
Speaking Population
0.42 %
32
Not Available
Native Speakers
28.00 million
29
3.00 million
99+
Native Name
Yorùbá
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
yoruba
lituanien
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Litauisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Lithuanians
History
Origin
4 BC
c. 1503
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Not Available
Branch
Kwa
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Lithuanian
Language Position
49
36
Not Available
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
yo
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
lit
ISO 639 2/B
yor
lit
ISO 639 3
yor
lit
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
yoru1245
lith1251
Linguasphere
No data available
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic
