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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Benin, Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

72
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Nigeria

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
Yoruba Academy

Interesting Facts

  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  • 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

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Owo and Itsekiri languages

Derived From

Albanian Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2629
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1012
0 32
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How Many Consonants

917
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Ẹ n lẹ

Thank You

Danke
e dupe

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
Bawo ni o se wa

Good Night

gute Nacht
Kasun layọ o

Good Evening

guten Abend
ka a ale

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
e kaasan

Good Morning

guten Morgen
e kaaro

Please

bitte
Jowo

Sorry

Verzeihung
binu

Bye

Tschüs
bye

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
mo nifẹ rẹ

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
mo tọrọ gafara

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Itsekiri

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.00500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Ede

Where They Speak

Germany
Benin, Togo

How Many People Speak

820,000.00800,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Ulukwumi

Where They Speak

Texas
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

6,000.0010,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2820
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million28.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million30.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
Yorùbá

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Yariba, Yooba

French Name

allemand
yoruba

German Name

Deutsch
Yoruba-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[jòɾùbá]

Ethnicity

Germans
Yoruba people

History

Origin

6th Century AD
4 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Western Sudanic

Branch

Western
Kwa

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Yorùbá

Language Position

949
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Yoruba Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
yo

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
yor

ISO 639 2/B

ger
yor

ISO 639 3

deu
yor

ISO 639 6

deus
yor

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
yoru1245

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating

German and Yoruba Alphabets

German and Yoruba Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Yoruba. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn German and Yoruba languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Yoruba languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Yoruba greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Yoruba are Most Spoken Languages.

All German 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 German and Yoruba dialects. Various dialects of German and Yoruba language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Yoruba Dialects are spoken in different Yoruba speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Yoruba Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Yoruba dialects include: Itsekiri , Ede. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

German and Yoruba Speaking population

German and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of German and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % 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 German and Yoruba on German vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Yoruba Language Codes

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