Countries
Benin, Nigeria
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
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.
  
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
  
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
e dupe
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
ka a ale
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
e kaaro
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Jowo
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
binu
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
bye
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Ede
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
Yorùbá
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
yoruba
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
4 BC
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Kwa
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
yo
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
yor
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
yor
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
yor
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
yoru1245
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Not Available
  
Yoruba and Tibetan Speaking population
Yoruba and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan 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 Tibetan on Yoruba vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Yoruba and Tibetan Language Codes
Yoruba and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Yoruba and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.