1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
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.
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
1.9 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Spanish and Galician Languages
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
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Como você está?
3.4 Good Night
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
3.12 Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
desculpe me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Brazilian Portuguese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.00204,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.0010,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.004,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million231.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million216.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Portugiesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
5.5 Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Portuguese people or portugueses
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
Medieval Galician
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Portuguese
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
51-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
Not Available