1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
1.9 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Adyghe language, Abaza language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Caucasian languages
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
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
3.4 Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
3.5 Good Evening
ka a ale
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.6 Good Afternoon
e kaasan
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.7 Good Morning
e kaaro
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Not available
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
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million0.13 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million0.13 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Yorùbá
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Abxazo, Abkhazian
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Abchasisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Abkhaz people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Northwest Caucasian
6.2.1 Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative