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Countries

Countries

Indonesia
Benin, Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Indonesia
Nigeria

Second Language

East Timor, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa

Minority Language

Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Yoruba Academy

Interesting Facts

  • The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
  • In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  • 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

Malay language
Owo and Itsekiri languages

Derived From

Malay and Dutch Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2629
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

612
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1917
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

73
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Halo
Ẹ n lẹ

Thank You

Terima kasih
e dupe

How Are You?

Apa kabar?
Bawo ni o se wa

Good Night

Selamat Malam
Kasun layọ o

Good Evening

Malam yang baik
ka a ale

Good Afternoon

Selamat Sore
e kaasan

Good Morning

Selamat Pagi
e kaaro

Please

mohon Untuk
Jowo

Sorry

maaf
binu

Bye

Selamat tinggal
bye

I Love You

Aku cinta kamu
mo nifẹ rẹ

Excuse Me

Permisi
mo tọrọ gafara

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sundanese
Itsekiri

Where They Speak

Indonesia
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

38,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Balinese
Ede

Where They Speak

Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
Benin, Togo

How Many People Speak

3,300,000.00800,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Minangkabau
Ulukwumi

Where They Speak

Indonesia, Malaysia
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.0010,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

4620
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

163.00 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.16 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

23.00 million28.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

140.00 million30.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Bahasa Melayu
Yorùbá

Alternative Names

Bahasa Indonesia
Yariba, Yooba

French Name

indonésien
yoruba

German Name

Bahasa Indonesia
Yoruba-Sprache

Pronunciation

[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
[jòɾùbá]

Ethnicity

Indonesians
Yoruba people

History

Origin

7th Century
4 BC

Language Family

Austronesian Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Indonesian
Western Sudanic

Branch

-
Kwa

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Malay
No early forms

Standard Forms

Indonesian
Yorùbá

Language Position

5649
1 120
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Signed Forms

Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Yoruba Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

id
yo

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ind
yor

ISO 639 2/B

ind
yor

ISO 639 3

ind
yor

ISO 639 6

ind
yor

Glottocode

indo1316
yoru1245

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating

Indonesian and Yoruba Alphabets

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

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

Indonesian and Yoruba Speaking population

Indonesian and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Indonesian and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Indonesian and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Indonesian language is 1.16 % 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 Indonesian and Yoruba on Indonesian vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Indonesian and Yoruba Language Codes

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