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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Benin, Nigeria

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Nigeria

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Africa

1.6 Minority Language

Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America

1.7 Regulated By

Yoruba Academy

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.

1.9 Similar To

Owo and Itsekiri languages

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

29
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

12
Rank: 9 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

17
Rank: 7 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks
Rank: 9 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Ẹ n lẹ

3.2 Thank You

e dupe

3.3 How Are You?

Bawo ni o se wa

3.4 Good Night

Kasun layọ o

3.5 Good Evening

ka a ale

3.6 Good Afternoon

e kaasan

3.7 Good Morning

e kaaro

3.8 Please

Jowo

3.9 Sorry

binu

3.10 Bye

bye

3.11 I Love You

mo nifẹ rẹ

3.12 Excuse Me

mo tọrọ gafara

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Itsekiri

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Nigeria

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

500,000.00
Rank: 34 (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Ede

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Benin, Togo

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

800,000.00
Rank: 27 (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Ulukwumi

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Nigeria

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

10,000.00
Rank: 34 (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

20
Rank: 18 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

30.00 million
Rank: 36 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.42 %
Rank: 32 (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

28.00 million
Rank: 29 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Yorùbá

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Yariba, Yooba

5.3.4 French Name

yoruba

5.3.5 German Name

Yoruba-Sprache

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Yoruba people

6 History

6.1 Origin

4 BC

6.2 Language Family

Niger-Congo Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Western Sudanic

6.2.2 Branch

Kwa

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Yorùbá

6.3.3 Language Position

49
Rank: 36 (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Yoruba Sign Language

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

yo

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

yor

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

yor

7.3 ISO 639 3

yor

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

yoru1245

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating

Origin of Yoruba language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Yoruba language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Yoruba language states that it was put to use in 4 BC. The history of Yoruba language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Yoruba Language History. Yoruba has no early forms. Yorùbá is the standard form of Yoruba language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Yoruba Language.

Yoruba population

Yoruba population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Yoruba language. Yoruba language is spoken by 30.00 million people in the world. Most of the Yoruba population lies in the Yoruba Speaking Countries. Yoruba language is spoken as first language by 28.00 million people and no total count of people speaking Yoruba as second language. Get to know Yoruba speaking population in detail.

Yoruba writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Yoruba writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Yoruba language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Yoruba language. Learn more about . 

Information about Yoruba language

Check out all the information about Yoruba language here. You may find it interesting to learn Yoruba Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Yoruba Speaking Countries, Yoruba speaking continents and Yoruba Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Yoruba countries knowing common Yoruba Greetings will help you in communicating with Yoruba people.