Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Benin, Nigeria
  
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Yoruba Academy
  
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
- 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
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
e dupe
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Kasun layọ o
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
ka a ale
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
e kaasan
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
e kaaro
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Jowo
  
Sorry
آسف
  
binu
  
Bye
وداعا
  
bye
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Itsekiri
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Ede
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Benin, Togo
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Ulukwumi
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
28.00 million
  
29
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Yorùbá
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Yariba, Yooba
  
French Name
arabe
  
yoruba
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Yoruba people
  
Origin
512 CE
  
4 BC
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Western Sudanic
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Kwa
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Yorùbá
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
yo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
yor
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
yor
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
yor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
yoru1245
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating