Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Benin, Nigeria
  
National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
  
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
  
Yoruba Academy
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  
- 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
French and Portuguese Languages
  
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Italian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ciao
  
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Thank You
grazie
  
e dupe
  
How Are You?
Come stai?
  
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Good Night
buonanotte
  
Kasun layọ o
  
Good Evening
buonasera
  
ka a ale
  
Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio
  
e kaasan
  
Good Morning
buongiorno
  
e kaaro
  
Please
Per Favore
  
Jowo
  
Sorry
scusate
  
binu
  
Bye
arrivederci
  
bye
  
I Love You
Ti amo
  
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Excuse Me
Scusami
  
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Dialect 1
Romanesco
  
Itsekiri
  
Where They Speak
Lazio
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
21
Dialect 2
Central Italian
  
Ede
  
Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
  
Benin, Togo
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Tuscan
  
Ulukwumi
  
Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
78.00 million
  
21
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
64.00 million
  
18
28.00 million
  
29
Second Language Speakers
14.00 million
  
20
Not Available
  
Native Name
Italiano
  
Yorùbá
  
Alternative Names
Italiano
  
Yariba, Yooba
  
French Name
italien
  
yoruba
  
German Name
Italienisch
  
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Italians
  
Yoruba people
  
Origin
960 BC
  
4 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Western Sudanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Kwa
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Italian
  
Yorùbá
  
Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
  
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
it
  
yo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ita
  
yor
  
ISO 639 2/B
ita
  
yor
  
ISO 639 3
ita
  
yor
  
ISO 639 6
itas
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ital1282
  
yoru1245
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-q
  
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
  
Italian and Yoruba Speaking population
Italian and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Italian and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Italian and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Italian language is 0.90 % 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 Italian and Yoruba on Italian vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Italian and Yoruba Language Codes
Italian and Yoruba language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Italian and Yoruba Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.