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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Benin, Nigeria
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
21
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Nigeria
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
1.8 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.
  • Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
  • Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Dutch Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2932
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
1215
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
1717
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
33
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks24 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
hallo
3.2 Thank You
e dupe
Dankie
3.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
Kasun layọ o
goeie nag
3.5 Good Evening
ka a ale
Goeienaand
3.6 Good Afternoon
e kaasan
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
e kaaro
goeie more
3.8 Please
Jowo
asseblief
3.9 Sorry
binu
jammer
3.10 Bye
bye
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Verskoon my
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.00NA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Ede
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.00NA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
Namibia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.00NA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
203
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million19.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.42 %NA
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million7.10 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA10.30 million
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Yorùbá
Afrikaans
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Cape Dutch
5.3.4 French Name
yoruba
afrikaans
5.3.5 German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Afrikaans
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Afrikaners
6 History
6.1 Origin
4 BC
17th Century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Germanic
6.2.2 Branch
Kwa
Western
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
49NA
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
yo
af
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
yor
afr
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
yor
afr
7.3 ISO 639 3
yor
afr
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
afrs
7.5 Glottocode
yoru1245
afri1274
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-ba
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic

Yoruba and Afrikaans Alphabets

Yoruba and Afrikaans Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Yoruba and Afrikaans. In Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Yoruba and Afrikaans languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Yoruba and Afrikaans languages. The Yoruba phonology consist Yoruba vowels and Yoruba consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Yoruba greetings vs Afrikaans greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Yoruba and Afrikaans are Most Spoken Languages.

All Yoruba and Afrikaans 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 Yoruba and Afrikaans dialects. Various dialects of Yoruba and Afrikaans language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Yoruba are spoken in different Yoruba Speaking Countries whereas Afrikaans Dialects are spoken in different Afrikaans speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Yoruba vs Afrikaans Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Yoruba dialects include: Itsekiri, Ede. Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans , Oranjeriverafrikaans. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Yoruba and Afrikaans Speaking population

Yoruba and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans 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 Afrikaans on Yoruba vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Yoruba and Afrikaans Language Codes

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