Countries
Benin, Nigeria
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Ukraine
  
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
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
e dupe
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
ka a ale
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
e kaaro
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
Jowo
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
binu
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
bye
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Ede
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
Yorùbá
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
  
Not Available
  
French Name
yoruba
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
4 BC
  
1561
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Kwa
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
yo
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
yor
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
yor
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
yor
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
yoru1245
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
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 Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Yoruba and Ukrainian language. Yoruba word for "Hello" is Ẹ n lẹ or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Yoruba Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Yoruba vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Yoruba vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Yoruba Alphabets and Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Yoruba and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Yoruba is 30 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.