Countries
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Benin, Nigeria
  
National Language
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
  
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
  
Yoruba Academy
  
Interesting Facts
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
- 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.
  
Similar To
Romanian
  
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Albanian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Përshëndetje
  
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Thank You
Ju faleminderit
  
e dupe
  
How Are You?
Si jeni?
  
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Good Night
natën e mirë
  
Kasun layọ o
  
Good Evening
mirëmbrëma
  
ka a ale
  
Good Afternoon
mirëdita
  
e kaasan
  
Good Morning
mirëmengjes
  
e kaaro
  
Please
Ju lutem
  
Jowo
  
Sorry
Me fal
  
binu
  
Bye
mirupafshim
  
bye
  
I Love You
unë e dua ju
  
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Excuse Me
Më falni
  
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Dialect 1
Gheg Albanian
  
Itsekiri
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
20
Dialect 2
Tosk Albanian
  
Ede
  
Where They Speak
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
  
Benin, Togo
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
Dialect 3
Arbëresh
  
Ulukwumi
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak?
7.50 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
3.10 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
29
Second Language Speakers
3.60 million
  
31
Not Available
  
Native Name
shqip / gjuha shqipe
  
Yorùbá
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Yariba, Yooba
  
French Name
albanais
  
yoruba
  
German Name
Albanisch
  
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ʃcip]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Albanians
  
Yoruba people
  
Origin
1462 AD
  
4 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Western Sudanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Kwa
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Albanian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Albanian
  
Yorùbá
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
  
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sq
  
yo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sqi
  
yor
  
ISO 639 2/B
alb
  
yor
  
ISO 639 3
sqi
  
yor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
alba1267
  
yoru1245
  
Linguasphere
55-AAA-aaa
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Albanian and Yoruba Speaking population
Albanian and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Albanian and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Albanian and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Albanian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Albanian and Yoruba on Albanian vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Albanian and Yoruba Language Codes
Albanian and Yoruba language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Albanian and Yoruba Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.