1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Philippines
1.3 Total No. Of Countries
2.4 National Language
2.5 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Philippines
2.6 Speaking Continents
2.7 Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.8 Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
2.9 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.
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
2.11 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Hiligaynon Language
3.2 Derived From
Not Available
Island of Cebu
4 Alphabets
4.1 Alphabets in
4.2 Alphabets
4.8 Phonology
4.8.1 How Many Vowels
4.8.2 How Many Consonants
4.9 Scripts
4.10 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
4.11 Hard to Learn
4.11.1 Language Levels
4.11.2 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
5.2 Thank You
5.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Kumusta man ka?
5.4 Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Maayong Gabii
5.5 Good Evening
5.6 Good Afternoon
5.7 Good Morning
5.8 Please
5.9 Sorry
5.10 Bye
5.11 I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Gihigugma ko ikaw
5.12 Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Ekskyus mi
6 Dialects
6.1 Dialect 1
6.1.1 Where They Speak
6.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
6.2 Dialect 2
6.2.1 Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
southern Leyte
6.2.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.00NA
700
80000000
6.3 Dialect 3
6.3.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
northern part of Leyte
6.3.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.00NA
1400
96000000
6.4 Total No. Of Dialects
7 How Many People Speak
7.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 millionNA
0.13
1200
7.2 Speaking Population
7.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million21.00 million
0.13
873
7.3.1 Second Language Speakers
7.3.2 Native Name
7.3.3 Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
7.3.4 French Name
7.3.5 German Name
7.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Cebuano people
8 History
8.1 Origin
8.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
8.2.1 Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Not Available
8.2.2 Branch
8.3 Language Forms
8.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
8.3.2 Standard Forms
8.3.3 Language Position
8.3.4 Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Not Available
8.4 Scope
9 Code
9.1 ISO 639 1
9.2 ISO 639 2
9.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
9.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
9.3 ISO 639 3
9.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
9.5 Glottocode
9.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
9.7 Types of Language
9.7.1 Language Type
9.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Subject-Object
9.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available