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Countries

Countries

Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Benin, Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

232
0 46
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National Language

Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Nigeria

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia
Africa

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Yoruba Academy

Interesting Facts

  • Arabic is 5th common language in world.
  • Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  • 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

Amharic and Hebrew
Owo and Itsekiri languages

Derived From

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-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2829
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

812
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2817
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic
Latin

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

43
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

مرحبا
Ẹ n lẹ

Thank You

شكرا
e dupe

How Are You?

كيف حالك؟
Bawo ni o se wa

Good Night

تصبح على خير
Kasun layọ o

Good Evening

مساء الخير
ka a ale

Good Afternoon

مساء الخير
e kaasan

Good Morning

صباح الخير
e kaaro

Please

من فضلك
Jowo

Sorry

آسف
binu

Bye

وداعا
bye

I Love You

أحبك
mo nifẹ rẹ

Excuse Me

اعذرني
mo tọrọ gafara

Dialects

Dialect 1

Maghrebi
Itsekiri

Where They Speak

Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

310,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Sudanese
Ede

Where They Speak

Sudan
Benin, Togo

How Many People Speak

17,000,000.00800,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Levantine
Ulukwumi

Where They Speak

Cyprus, Levant
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

21,000,000.0010,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2620
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

452.00 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

4.43 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

206.00 million28.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

246.00 million30.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

(al arabiya) العربية
Yorùbá

Alternative Names

Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Yariba, Yooba

French Name

arabe
yoruba

German Name

Arabisch
Yoruba-Sprache

Pronunciation

/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[jòɾùbá]

Ethnicity

Arabs
Yoruba people

History

Origin

512 CE
4 BC

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Western Sudanic

Branch

North Arabic
Kwa

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Standard Arabic
Yorùbá

Language Position

2549
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Arabic
Yoruba Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ar
yo

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ara
yor

ISO 639 2/B

ara
yor

ISO 639 3

ara
yor

ISO 639 6

ara
yor

Glottocode

arab1395
yoru1245

Linguasphere

12-AAC
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating

Arabic and Yoruba Alphabets

Arabic and Yoruba Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Arabic and Yoruba. In Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Arabic and Yoruba languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Arabic and Yoruba languages. The Arabic phonology consist Arabic vowels and Arabic consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Arabic greetings vs Yoruba greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Arabic and Yoruba are Most Spoken Languages.

All Arabic and Yoruba Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Arabic and Yoruba dialects. Various dialects of Arabic and Yoruba language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Arabic are spoken in different Arabic Speaking Countries whereas Yoruba Dialects are spoken in different Yoruba speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Arabic vs Yoruba Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Arabic dialects include: Maghrebi, Sudanese. Yoruba dialects include: Itsekiri , Ede. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Arabic and Yoruba Speaking population

Arabic and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Arabic and Yoruba on Arabic vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Arabic and Yoruba Language Codes

Arabic and Yoruba language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Arabic and Yoruba Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.