Countries
Indonesia
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
-
Yoruba Academy
Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
- 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
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2729
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2117
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
matur nuwun
e dupe
How Are You?
piye kabare?
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
wengi sing apik
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
e kaasan
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
e kaaro
Please
matur nuwun
Jowo
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
binu
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
bye
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Cirebon
Ede
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1620
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
javanais
yoruba
German Name
Javanisch
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Yoruba people
Origin
450 AD
4 BC
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Western Sudanic
Branch
-
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Javanese
Yorùbá
Language Position
1149
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
yor
ISO 639 2/B
jav
yor
ISO 639 3
jav
yor
ISO 639 6
jav
yor
Glottocode
java1253
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