Countries
Benin, Nigeria
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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.
  
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
  
Hai
  
Thank You
e dupe
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
ka a ale
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
e kaaro
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
Jowo
  
sila
  
Sorry
binu
  
maaf
  
Bye
bye
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Ede
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
  
Indonesia
  
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Yorùbá
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
  
Not Available
  
French Name
yoruba
  
malais
  
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
4 BC
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Kwa
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
yo
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
yor
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
yor
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
yor
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
yoru1245
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Agglutinative
  
Yoruba and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Yoruba and Malaysian language. Yoruba word for "Hello" is Ẹ n lẹ or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Yoruba Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Yoruba vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Yoruba vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Yoruba Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Yoruba and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Yoruba is 30 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.