1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nigeria
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
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
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
1.9 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Amharic and Hebrew
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
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
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
كيف حالك؟
3.4 Good Night
Kasun layọ o
تصبح على خير
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
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
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
800,000.0017,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.0021,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million452.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million206.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA246.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Yorùbá
(al arabiya) العربية
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Modern Standard Arabic
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Arabic
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic