1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
East Timor, Indonesia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
1.7 Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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.
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
1.9 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Malay language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Malay and Dutch Languages
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
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Apa kabar?
3.4 Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Selamat Malam
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Aku cinta kamu
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.003,300,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
Indonesia, Malaysia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.006,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million163.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million23.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA140.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Bahasa Indonesia
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Bahasa Indonesia
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Indonesians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Indonesian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
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
Agglutinative