1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nigeria
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Not Available
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
1.9 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
Wakadini zvako?
3.4 Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Urare zvakanaka
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
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
1.4 Dialect 2
1.4.1 Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
southern Zimbabwe
1.4.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.00NA
700
80000000
1.5 Dialect 3
1.5.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
1.5.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.00NA
1400
96000000
1.6 Total No. Of Dialects
2 How Many People Speak
2.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
2.2 Speaking Population
2.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million8.30 million
0.13
873
2.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.3.2 Native Name
2.3.3 Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
2.3.4 French Name
2.3.5 German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Schona-Sprache
2.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
2.5 Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Not Available
3 History
3.1 Origin
3.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
3.2.1 Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Benue-Congo
3.2.2 Branch
3.3 Language Forms
3.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Not Available
3.3.2 Standard Forms
3.3.3 Language Position
3.3.4 Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Not Available
3.4 Scope
4 Code
4.1 ISO 639 1
4.2 ISO 639 2
4.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
4.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
4.3 ISO 639 3
4.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
4.5 Glottocode
4.6 Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-a
4.7 Types of Language
4.7.1 Language Type
4.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
4.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available