1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Thailand
1.7 Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
1.8 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 most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
1.9 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Indonesian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Tamil Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Apa khabar?
3.4 Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Selamat Malam
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
e kaasan
Selamat tengah hari
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Saya sayang kamu
3.12 Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Maafkan saya
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.0030,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.003,100,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million175.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million77.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
5.5 Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Pluricentric Standard Malay
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Malaysian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative