Countries
Benin, Nigeria
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
  
سلام
  
Thank You
e dupe
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
ka a ale
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
e kaaro
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
Jowo
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
binu
  
متاسف
  
Bye
bye
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Ede
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
65.00 million
  
26
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
65.00 million
  
17
Native Name
Yorùbá
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
yoruba
  
persan
  
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
  
Persian people
  
Origin
4 BC
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Kwa
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
  
Persian
  
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
yo
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
yor
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
yor
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
yor
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
yoru1245
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Synthetic
  
Yoruba and Persian 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 Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Yoruba and Persian language. Yoruba word for "Hello" is Ẹ n lẹ or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Yoruba Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Yoruba vs Persian Difficulty
The Yoruba vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Yoruba Alphabets and Persian 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 Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Yoruba and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Yoruba is 30 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.