Countries
Benin, Nigeria
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
e dupe
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
ka a ale
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
e kaaro
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Jowo
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
binu
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
bye
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Nepal
  
Dialect 2
Ede
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
  
India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Yorùbá
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
yoruba
  
népalais
  
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
4 BC
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Kwa
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
yo
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
yor
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
yor
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
yor
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
yoru1245
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Agglutinative
  
Yoruba and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Yoruba and Nepali language. Yoruba word for "Hello" is Ẹ n lẹ or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Yoruba Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Yoruba vs Nepali Difficulty
The Yoruba vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Yoruba Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Yoruba and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Yoruba is 30 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.