Countries
Fiji, India
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
India
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Yoruba Academy
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
- 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
Urdu
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4429
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1112
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3317
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
e dupe
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
e kaasan
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
e kaaro
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Jowo
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
binu
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
bye
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Marwari
Ede
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2120
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
hindi
yoruba
German Name
Hindi
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Yoruba people
Origin
7th Century
4 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Western Sudanic
Branch
Indic
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Yorùbá
Language Position
549
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hi
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
yor
ISO 639 2/B
hin
yor
ISO 639 3
hin
yor
ISO 639 6
hins
yor
Glottocode
hind1269
yoru1245
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating