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Urdu
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Countries

Countries

India, Pakistan
Benin, Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Pakistan
Nigeria

Second Language

Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Oceania
Africa

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Yoruba Academy

Interesting Facts

  • Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
  • Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
  • 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

Arabic and Hindi Languages
Owo and Itsekiri languages

Derived From

Ghaznavid Persian Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5229
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1012
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4017
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic
Latin

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

43
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

خوش آمديد
Ẹ n lẹ

Thank You

آپ کا شکریہ
e dupe

How Are You?

آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Bawo ni o se wa

Good Night

گڈ نائٹ
Kasun layọ o

Good Evening

سلام علیکم
ka a ale

Good Afternoon

گڈ آفٹر نون
e kaasan

Good Morning

گڈ مارننگ
e kaaro

Please

براہ مہربانی
Jowo

Sorry

معاف کرنا
binu

Bye

الوداع
bye

I Love You

مجھے تم سے محبت
mo nifẹ rẹ

Excuse Me

معاف کیجئے گا
mo tọrọ gafara

Dialects

Dialect 1

Dakhini
Itsekiri

Where They Speak

India
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hyderabadi Urdu
Ede

Where They Speak

India
Benin, Togo

How Many People Speak

69,000,000.00800,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Rekhta
Ulukwumi

Where They Speak

South Asia
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

69,000,000.0010,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

320
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

104.00 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.99 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

61.00 million28.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

43.00 million30.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

اُردُو
Yorùbá

Alternative Names

Bihari
Yariba, Yooba

French Name

ourdou
yoruba

German Name

Urdu
Yoruba-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈʊrd̪u]
[jòɾùbá]

Ethnicity

Urdu-speaking people
Yoruba people

History

Origin

12th Century CE
4 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Western Sudanic

Branch

Indic
Kwa

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Standard Urdu
Yorùbá

Language Position

2049
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Urdu
Yoruba Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ur
yo

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

urd
yor

ISO 639 2/B

urd
yor

ISO 639 3

urd
yor

ISO 639 6

urd
yor

Glottocode

urdu1245
yoru1245

Linguasphere

59-AAF-q
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Analytic, Isolating

Urdu and Yoruba Alphabets

Urdu and Yoruba Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Urdu and Yoruba. In Urdu Alphabets there are 52 letters while in Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Urdu and Yoruba languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Urdu and Yoruba languages. The Urdu phonology consist Urdu vowels and Urdu consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Urdu greetings vs Yoruba greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Urdu and Yoruba are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Urdu and Yoruba Speaking population

Urdu and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Urdu and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Urdu and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 % 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 Urdu and Yoruba on Urdu vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Urdu and Yoruba Language Codes

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