Countries
Benin, Nigeria
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
e dupe
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
ka a ale
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
e kaaro
  
günaydın
  
Please
Jowo
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
binu
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
bye
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Ede
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
75.00 million
  
23
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
Yorùbá
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
yoruba
  
turc
  
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
  
Turkish
  
Origin
4 BC
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Kwa
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
yo
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
yor
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
yor
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
yor
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
yoru1245
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Synthetic
  
Yoruba and Turkish Speaking population
Yoruba and Turkish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and Turkish languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and Turkish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Turkish language is 0.95 %. 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 Turkish on Yoruba vs Turkish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Yoruba and Turkish Language Codes
Yoruba and Turkish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Yoruba and Turkish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.