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
  
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
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
e dupe
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
ka a ale
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
e kaaro
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Jowo
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
binu
  
آسف
  
Bye
bye
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Ede
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Yorùbá
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
yoruba
  
arabe
  
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
  
Arabs
  
Origin
4 BC
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Kwa
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
yo
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
yor
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
yor
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
yor
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
yoru1245
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Yoruba and Arabic Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Yoruba and Arabic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Yoruba and Arabic language. Yoruba word for "Hello" is Ẹ n lẹ or Arabic word for "Thank You" is شكرا. Find more of such common Yoruba Greetings and Arabic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Yoruba vs Arabic Difficulty
The Yoruba vs Arabic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Yoruba Alphabets and Arabic Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Yoruba and Arabic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Yoruba and Arabic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Yoruba is 30 weeks while to learn Arabic time required is 88 weeks.