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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Benin, Nigeria

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Nigeria

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Africa

1.6 Minority Language

Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America

1.7 Regulated By

Yoruba Academy

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Owo and Itsekiri languages

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

29
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

12
Rank: 9 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

17
Rank: 7 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks
Rank: 9 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Ẹ n lẹ

3.2 Thank You

e dupe

3.3 How Are You?

Bawo ni o se wa

3.4 Good Night

Kasun layọ o

3.5 Good Evening

ka a ale

3.6 Good Afternoon

e kaasan

3.7 Good Morning

e kaaro

3.8 Please

Jowo

3.9 Sorry

binu

3.10 Bye

bye

3.11 I Love You

mo nifẹ rẹ

3.12 Excuse Me

mo tọrọ gafara

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Itsekiri

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Nigeria

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

500,000.00
Rank: 34 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Ede

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Benin, Togo

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

800,000.00
Rank: 27 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Ulukwumi

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Nigeria

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

10,000.00
Rank: 34 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

20
Rank: 18 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

30.00 million
Rank: 36 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.42 %
Rank: 32 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

28.00 million
Rank: 29 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Yorùbá

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Yariba, Yooba

5.3.4 French Name

yoruba

5.3.5 German Name

Yoruba-Sprache

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Yoruba people

6 History

6.1 Origin

4 BC

6.2 Language Family

Niger-Congo Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Western Sudanic

6.2.2 Branch

Kwa

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Yorùbá

6.3.3 Language Position

49
Rank: 36 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Yoruba Sign Language

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

yo

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

yor

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

yor

7.3 ISO 639 3

yor

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

yoru1245

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating

Know Alphabets in Yoruba

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Yoruba Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Yoruba Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Yoruba. Yoruba phonology gives Yoruba vowels and Yoruba consonants. There are 12 vowels and 17 consonants in Yoruba language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Yoruba is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Yoruba language is given in detail in this section.

All Yoruba countries

Want to explore all Yoruba countries? About Yoruba language serves you with all Yoruba Speaking Countries. Countries that use Yoruba as official language are called as Yoruba countries.

  • Countries that use Yoruba as their National Language are: Nigeria.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Yoruba as second language are: Yoruba is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Yoruba greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Yoruba Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Yoruba language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Yoruba language.Learn Yoruba greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Ẹ n lẹ
  • Thank you: e dupe
  • Good Morning: e kaaro
  • Good Evening: ka a ale
  • Good Afternoon: e kaasan

All Yoruba Language Codes

Get to know all Yoruba language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Yoruba Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.