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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Benin, Nigeria
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
42
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Nigeria
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Yoruba Academy
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
  • 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.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Owo and Itsekiri languages
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2429
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
512
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2117
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
33
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks30 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Habari
Ẹ n lẹ
3.2 Thank You
Asante
e dupe
3.3 How Are You?
Habari gani?
Bawo ni o se wa
3.4 Good Night
Usiku mwema
Kasun layọ o
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
ka a ale
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
e kaasan
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
e kaaro
3.8 Please
tafadhali
Jowo
3.9 Sorry
pole
binu
3.10 Bye
bye
bye
3.11 I Love You
nakupenda
mo nifẹ rẹ
3.12 Excuse Me
Samahani
mo tọrọ gafara
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Itsekiri
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Nigeria
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA500,000.00
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Kimrima
Ede
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Benin, Togo
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA800,000.00
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Kimgao
Ulukwumi
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kilwa
Nigeria
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA10,000.00
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
1220
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million30.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
NA0.42 %
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million28.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NANA
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
Yorùbá
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Yariba, Yooba
5.3.4 French Name
swahili
yoruba
5.3.5 German Name
Swahili
Yoruba-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Yoruba people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th century
4 BC
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Western Sudanic
6.2.2 Branch
Bantu
Kwa
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Swahili
Yorùbá
6.3.3 Language Position
NA49
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Yoruba Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
sw
yo
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
swa
yor
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
swa
yor
7.3 ISO 639 3
swa
yor
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
swah1254
yoru1245
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating

Swahili and Yoruba Alphabets

Swahili and Yoruba Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Yoruba. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Swahili and Yoruba languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Yoruba languages. The Swahili phonology consist Swahili vowels and Swahili consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Swahili greetings vs Yoruba greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Yoruba are Most Spoken Languages.

All Swahili and Yoruba Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Swahili and Yoruba dialects. Various dialects of Swahili and Yoruba language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Swahili are spoken in different Swahili Speaking Countries whereas Yoruba Dialects are spoken in different Yoruba speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Swahili vs Yoruba Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja, Kimrima. Yoruba dialects include: Itsekiri , Ede. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Swahili and Yoruba Speaking population

Swahili and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili 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 Swahili and Yoruba on Swahili vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Yoruba Language Codes

Swahili and Yoruba language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Swahili and Yoruba Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.