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Countries

Countries

Japan
Benin, Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Nigeria

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Africa

Minority Language

Palau
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Yoruba Academy

Interesting Facts

  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  • 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

Korean Language
Owo and Itsekiri languages

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9929
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

512
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1417
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

53
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Ẹ n lẹ

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
e dupe

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Bawo ni o se wa

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Kasun layọ o

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
ka a ale

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
e kaasan

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
e kaaro

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Jowo

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
binu

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
bye

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
mo nifẹ rẹ

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
mo tọrọ gafara

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Itsekiri

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Ede

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Benin, Togo

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.00800,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Ulukwumi

Where They Speak

kansai
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0010,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3120
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million28.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million30.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
Yorùbá

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Yariba, Yooba

French Name

japonais
yoruba

German Name

Japanisch
Yoruba-Sprache

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[jòɾùbá]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Yoruba people

History

Origin

1185
4 BC

Language Family

Japonic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

-
Western Sudanic

Branch

-
Kwa

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms

Standard Forms

Japanese
Yorùbá

Language Position

849
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Yoruba Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
yo

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
yor

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
yor

ISO 639 3

jpn
yor

ISO 639 6

jpn
yor

Glottocode

nucl1643
yoru1245

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating

Japanese and Yoruba Alphabets

Japanese and Yoruba Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Yoruba. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Japanese and Yoruba languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Yoruba languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Yoruba greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Yoruba are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Yoruba Speaking population

Japanese and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % 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 Japanese and Yoruba on Japanese vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Yoruba Language Codes

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