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About Yoruba Language



Countries
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Countries
Benin, Nigeria 0

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
Nigeria 0

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Speaking Continents
Africa 0

Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America 0

Regulated By
Yoruba Academy 0

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.
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Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages 0

Derived From
Not Available 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
29 11

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
12 9

How Many Consonants
17 7

Scripts
Latin 0

Writing Direction
Not Available 0

Hard to Learn
0

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks 9

Greetings
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Hello
Ẹ n lẹ 0

Thank You
e dupe 0

How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa 0

Good Night
Kasun layọ o 0

Good Evening
ka a ale 0

Good Afternoon
e kaasan 0

Good Morning
e kaaro 0

Please
Jowo 0

Sorry
binu 0

Bye
bye 0

I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ 0

Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Itsekiri 0

Where They Speak
Nigeria 0

How Many People Speak
500,000.00 34

Dialect 2
Ede 0

Where They Speak
Benin, Togo 0

How Many People Speak
800,000.00 27

Dialect 3
Ulukwumi 0

Where They Speak
Nigeria 0

How Many People Speak
10,000.00 34

Total No. Of Dialects
20 18

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million 36

Speaking Population
0.42 % 32

Native Speakers
28.00 million 29

Second Language Speakers
Not Available 0

Native Name
Yorùbá 0

Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba 0

French Name
yoruba 0

German Name
Yoruba-Sprache 0

Pronunciation
Not Available 0

Ethnicity
Yoruba people 0

History
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Origin
4 BC 0

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family 0

Subgroup
Western Sudanic 0

Branch
Kwa 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
No early forms 0

Standard Forms
Yorùbá 0

Language Position
49 36

Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
yo 0

ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
yor 0

ISO 639 2/B
yor 0

ISO 639 3
yor 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
yoru1245 0

Linguasphere
No data available 0

Types of Language
0

Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object 0

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating 0

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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.

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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.

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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.

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