1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Ghana, Ivory coast
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
Benin, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Akan Orthography Committee
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.
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
1.9 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
wo ho te sɛn?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
mepa wo kyɛw
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.009,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.009,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.001,900,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million11.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million11.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Akan-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Akan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
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
Not Available
Not Available
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available