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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Writing Direction
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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
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
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Sudan
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Levantine
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Cyprus, Levant
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Yorùbá
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Arabisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Arabs
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Semitic
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
yoru1245
arab1395
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC
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.