Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Myanmar
National Language
Nigeria
Myanmar
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Mon
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Thai Language
Derived From
Not Available
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
e dupe
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
ka a ale
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
e kaaro
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
Jowo
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
binu
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Myanmar
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Burma
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Yorùbá
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
yoruba
birman
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Bamar people
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Modern Burmese
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
yoru1245
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating
Yoruba and Burmese 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 Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Yoruba and Burmese language. Yoruba word for "Hello" is Ẹ n lẹ or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Yoruba Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Yoruba vs Burmese Difficulty
The Yoruba vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Yoruba Alphabets and Burmese 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 Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Yoruba and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Yoruba is 30 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.