Countries
Benin, Nigeria
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
e dupe
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
ka a ale
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
e kaaro
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
Jowo
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
binu
  
Not Available
  
Bye
bye
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Abkhazia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Ede
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
  
Caucasus
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
0.13 million
  
99+
Native Name
Yorùbá
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
yoruba
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
4 BC
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Kwa
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
  
Abkhaz
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
yo
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
yor
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
yor
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
yor
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
yoru1245
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Agglutinative
  
Yoruba and Abkhaz Speaking population
Yoruba and Abkhaz speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and Abkhaz languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and Abkhaz Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Abkhaz language is Not Available. 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 Yoruba and Abkhaz on Yoruba vs Abkhaz where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Yoruba and Abkhaz Language Codes
Yoruba and Abkhaz language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Yoruba and Abkhaz Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.