1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nigeria
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
1.9 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Armenian
1.10 Derived From
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
γεια σας (geia sas)
3.2 Thank You
e dupe
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
3.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
3.4 Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
3.5 Good Evening
ka a ale
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
3.6 Good Afternoon
e kaasan
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
3.7 Good Morning
e kaaro
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
3.8 Please
Jowo
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
3.12 Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Cappadocian Greek
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.0050,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million13.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
5.3.4 French Name
yoruba
grec moderne (après 1453)
5.3.5 German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Neugriechisch
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Greeks or Hellenes
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
56-AAA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic