Countries
India, Nepal
  
Benin, Nigeria
  
National Language
Nepal
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
  
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Yoruba Academy
  
Interesting Facts
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
- 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
Hindi
  
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
e dupe
  
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Kasun layọ o
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
ka a ale
  
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
  
e kaasan
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
e kaaro
  
Please
कृपया
  
Jowo
  
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
binu
  
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
bye
  
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Dialect 1
Doteli
  
Itsekiri
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Nigeria
  
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
Ede
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
Benin, Togo
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Ulukwumi
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
28.00 million
  
29
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
Not Available
  
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Yorùbá
  
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
Yariba, Yooba
  
French Name
népalais
  
yoruba
  
German Name
Nepali
  
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Yoruba people
  
Origin
19 BC
  
4 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Western Sudanic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Kwa
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Nepali
  
Yorùbá
  
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
  
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ne
  
yo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
yor
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
yor
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
yor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
yoru1245
  
Linguasphere
12
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Nepali and Yoruba Speaking population
Nepali and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % 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 Nepali and Yoruba on Nepali vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Nepali and Yoruba Language Codes
Nepali and Yoruba language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Nepali and Yoruba Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.