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 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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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
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3120
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
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
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