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
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
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Not Available
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
I Love You
أحبك
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
اعذرني
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Sudan
Benin, Togo
Dialect 3
Levantine
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Nigeria
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Yariba, Yooba
German Name
Arabisch
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Not Available
Ethnicity
Arabs
Yoruba people
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Western Sudanic
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Yorùbá
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
yoru1245
Linguasphere
12-AAC
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Arabic and Yoruba 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 Arabic and Yoruba greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Yoruba language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Yoruba word for "Thank You" is e dupe. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Yoruba Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Yoruba Difficulty
The Arabic vs Yoruba difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Yoruba 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 Arabic and Yoruba are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Yoruba, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Yoruba time required is 30 weeks.