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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Benin, Nigeria
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
24
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Nigeria
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
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
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
1.9 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2924
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
125
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
1721
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
33
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks36 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
Habari
3.2 Thank You
e dupe
Asante
3.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Habari gani?
3.4 Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Usiku mwema
3.5 Good Evening
ka a ale
Habari za jioni
3.6 Good Afternoon
e kaasan
nzuri Alasiri
3.7 Good Morning
e kaaro
Habari za asubuhi
3.8 Please
Jowo
tafadhali
3.9 Sorry
binu
pole
3.10 Bye
bye
bye
3.11 I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
nakupenda
3.12 Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Samahani
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Kiunguja
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
Zanzibar island
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.00NA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Ede
Kimrima
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Dar es Salaam
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.00NA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Kimgao
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
Kilwa
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.00NA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
2012
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million150.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.42 %NA
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million15.00 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
Not Available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
5.3.4 French Name
yoruba
swahili
5.3.5 German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Swahili
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Swahili people or Waswahili
6 History
6.1 Origin
4 BC
6th century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
Kwa
Bantu
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Swahili
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
Individual, Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
yo
sw
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
yor
swa
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
yor
swa
7.3 ISO 639 3
yor
swa
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
yoru1245
swah1254
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUS-m
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available

Yoruba and Swahili Alphabets

Yoruba and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Yoruba and Swahili. In Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Yoruba and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Yoruba and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Yoruba and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Yoruba and Swahili Speaking population

Yoruba and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available. 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 Swahili on Yoruba vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Yoruba and Swahili Language Codes

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