1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
2.4 National Language
2.5 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
2.6 Speaking Continents
2.7 Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
2.8 Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
2.10 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
2.11 Derived From
Not Available
Albanian Languages
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.3 Phonology
3.3.1 How Many Vowels
3.3.3 How Many Consonants
3.7 Scripts
3.8 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
3.9 Hard to Learn
3.9.1 Language Levels
3.9.3 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Wie geht es dir?
6.4 Good Night
6.5 Good Evening
6.6 Good Afternoon
6.7 Good Morning
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
6.10 Bye
6.11 I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Ich liebe dich
6.12 Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Entschuldigung
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
7.1.1 Where They Speak
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
7.3 Dialect 2
7.3.1 Where They Speak
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.00820,000.00
700
80000000
7.5 Dialect 3
7.5.1 Where They Speak
7.5.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.006,000.00
1400
96000000
7.7 Total No. Of Dialects
9 How Many People Speak
9.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million229.00 million
0.13
1200
9.2 Speaking Population
9.4 Native Speakers
28.00 million101.00 million
0.13
873
9.5.1 Second Language Speakers
NA128.00 million
0.01
400
9.5.3 Native Name
9.5.4 Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Deutsch, Tedesco
9.5.5 French Name
9.5.6 German Name
9.6 Pronunciation
9.7 Ethnicity
10 History
10.1 Origin
10.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
10.2.1 Subgroup
10.2.2 Branch
10.3 Language Forms
10.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
10.3.2 Standard Forms
Yorùbá
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
10.3.3 Language Position
11.3.4 Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Signed German
11.4 Scope
12 Code
12.1 ISO 639 1
12.2 ISO 639 2
12.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
12.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
12.3 ISO 639 3
12.4 ISO 639 6
12.5 Glottocode
yoru1245
high1287, uppe1397
12.6 Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
12.7 Types of Language
12.7.1 Language Type
12.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
12.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic