Countries
Burkina Faso
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
-
Yoruba Academy
Interesting Facts
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
- 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
Dagbani Language
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2629
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1617
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kia ora
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
Laafi bala
e dupe
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
Ne y yungo
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
ne y zabre
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
e kaasan
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
e kaaro
Please
gafare
Jowo
Sorry
gafare
binu
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
bye
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
Y gafare
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Saremde
Ede
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Taolende
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
820
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Mosse
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
moré
yoruba
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[mɔ̀ːsì]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Mossi
Yoruba people
Origin
11th Century AD
4 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Western Sudanic
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Mossi
Yorùbá
Language Position
3749
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mossi Sign Language
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mos
yor
ISO 639 2/B
mos
yor
ISO 639 3
mos
yor
ISO 639 6
mos
yor
Glottocode
moss1236
yoru1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating