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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
22
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Nigeria
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
  • Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
  • Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2928
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
128
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
1720
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
310
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks88 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
您好
3.2 Thank You
e dupe
谢谢
3.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
你好吗?
3.4 Good Night
Kasun layọ o
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
ka a ale
晚上好
3.6 Good Afternoon
e kaasan
下午好
3.7 Good Morning
e kaaro
早上好
3.8 Please
Jowo
3.9 Sorry
binu
遗憾
3.10 Bye
bye
再见
3.11 I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
我爱你
3.12 Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
原谅我
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.00NA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Ede
Xiguan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Hong Kong
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.00NA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Hong Kong
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
Hong Kong
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 million60.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.42 %16.00 %
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million52.00 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
Yorùbá
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
yoruba
Not Available
5.3.5 German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
4 BC
17th century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Kwa
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
49NA
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
yo
No data available
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
yor
Not Available
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
yor
Not Available
7.3 ISO 639 3
yor
No data available
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
yoru1245
cant1236
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Not Available
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available

Yoruba and Cantonese Alphabets

Yoruba and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Yoruba and Cantonese. In Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Yoruba and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Yoruba and Cantonese 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 Cantonese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Yoruba and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Yoruba and Cantonese Speaking population

Yoruba and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. 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 Cantonese on Yoruba vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Yoruba and Cantonese Language Codes

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