About Yoruba Language | Yoruba | Alphabets in Yoruba

Countries

Benin, Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Nigeria

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa

Minority Language

Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Yoruba Academy

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.

Similar To

Owo and Itsekiri languages

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 11 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 9 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 7 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks

Rank: 10 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Ẹ n lẹ

Thank You

e dupe

How Are You?

Bawo ni o se wa

Good Night

Kasun layọ o

Good Evening

ka a ale

Good Afternoon

e kaasan

Good Morning

e kaaro

Please

Jowo

Sorry

binu

Bye

bye

I Love You

mo nifẹ rẹ

Excuse Me

mo tọrọ gafara

Dialects

Dialect 1

Itsekiri

Where They Speak

Nigeria

How Many People Speak

500,000.00

Rank: 68 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Ede

Where They Speak

Benin, Togo

How Many People Speak

800,000.00

Rank: 67 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Ulukwumi

Where They Speak

Nigeria

How Many People Speak

10,000.00

Rank: 75 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 18 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million

Rank: 36 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.42 %

Rank: 34 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

28.00 million

Rank: 29 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

30.00 million

Rank: 26 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Yorùbá

Alternative Names

Yariba, Yooba

French Name

yoruba

German Name

Yoruba-Sprache

Pronunciation

[jòɾùbá]

Ethnicity

Yoruba people

History

Origin

4 BC

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Western Sudanic

Branch

Kwa

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Yorùbá

Language Position

Rank: 46 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Yoruba Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yor

ISO 639 2/B

yor

ISO 639 3

yor

ISO 639 6

yor

Glottocode

yoru1245

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating

Know Alphabets in Yoruba

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Yoruba Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Yoruba Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Yoruba. Yoruba phonology gives Yoruba vowels and Yoruba consonants. There are 12 vowels and 17 consonants in Yoruba language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Yoruba is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Yoruba language is given in detail in this section.

All Yoruba countries

Want to explore all Yoruba countries? About Yoruba language serves you with all Yoruba Speaking Countries. Countries that use Yoruba as official language are called as Yoruba countries.

Countries that use Yoruba as their National Language are: Nigeria.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Yoruba as second language are: Yoruba is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Yoruba greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Yoruba Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Yoruba language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Yoruba language.Learn Yoruba greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Ẹ n lẹ
Thank you: e dupe
Good Morning: e kaaro
Good Evening: ka a ale
Good Afternoon: e kaasan

All Yoruba Language Codes

Get to know all Yoruba language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Yoruba Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.