Countries
India
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
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
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
Prakrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5229
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3617
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
e dupe
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
e kaasan
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
e kaaro
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
Jowo
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
binu
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
bye
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Not present
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
-
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
140,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Ede
Where They Speak
-
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
140,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
-
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
140,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
020
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
14.10 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
14.10 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
sanskrit
yoruba
German Name
Sanskrit
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Yoruba people
Origin
2000 B.C.
4 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Western Sudanic
Branch
Indic
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Yorùbá
Language Position
2349
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
-
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
yor
ISO 639 2/B
san
yor
ISO 639 3
san
yor
ISO 639 6
san
yor
Glottocode
sans1269
yoru1245
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating