Countries
Benin, Nigeria
  
European Union, Poland
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Poland
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
  
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
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.
  
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
  
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
  
cześć
  
Thank You
e dupe
  
dziękuję
  
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Jak się masz?
  
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
  
dobranoc
  
Good Evening
ka a ale
  
dobry wieczór
  
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
  
dzień dobry
  
Good Morning
e kaaro
  
Dzień dobry
  
Please
Jowo
  
proszę
  
Sorry
binu
  
Przepraszam
  
Bye
bye
  
do widzenia
  
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
kocham Cię
  
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
  
przepraszam
  
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
  
Kashubian
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Poland
  
How Many People Speak
108,000.00
  
99+
Dialect 2
Ede
  
Masovian
  
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
  
Poland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
  
Silesian
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Czech Republic, Poland
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
40.00 million
  
31
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
40.00 million
  
24
Native Name
Yorùbá
  
Polski
  
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
  
Polnisch, Polski
  
French Name
yoruba
  
polonais
  
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Polnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈpɔlski]
  
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
  
Poles
  
Origin
4 BC
  
1270
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Kwa
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
  
Polish
  
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
yo
  
pl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
yor
  
pol
  
ISO 639 2/B
yor
  
pol
  
ISO 639 3
yor
  
pol
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
pols
  
Glottocode
yoru1245
  
poli1260
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-cc
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Yoruba and Polish 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 Polish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Yoruba and Polish language. Yoruba word for "Hello" is Ẹ n lẹ or Polish word for "Thank You" is dziękuję. Find more of such common Yoruba Greetings and Polish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Yoruba vs Polish Difficulty
The Yoruba vs Polish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Yoruba Alphabets and Polish 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 Polish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Yoruba and Polish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Yoruba is 30 weeks while to learn Polish time required is 44 weeks.