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Yoruba
Yoruba

Arabic
Arabic



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Countries

Countries

Benin, Nigeria
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Total No. Of Countries

223
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa, Asia

Minority Language

Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Yoruba Academy
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council

Interesting Facts

  • 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.
  • Arabic is 5th common language in world.
  • Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.

Similar To

Owo and Itsekiri languages
Amharic and Hebrew

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2928
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

128
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1728
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ẹ n lẹ
مرحبا

Thank You

e dupe
شكرا

How Are You?

Bawo ni o se wa
كيف حالك؟

Good Night

Kasun layọ o
تصبح على خير

Good Evening

ka a ale
مساء الخير

Good Afternoon

e kaasan
مساء الخير

Good Morning

e kaaro
صباح الخير

Please

Jowo
من فضلك

Sorry

binu
آسف

Bye

bye
وداعا

I Love You

mo nifẹ rẹ
أحبك

Excuse Me

mo tọrọ gafara
اعذرني

Dialects

Dialect 1

Itsekiri
Maghrebi

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia

How Many People Speak

500,000.00310,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ede
Sudanese

Where They Speak

Benin, Togo
Sudan

How Many People Speak

800,000.0017,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ulukwumi
Levantine

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Cyprus, Levant

How Many People Speak

10,000.0021,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2026
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million452.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %4.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

28.00 million206.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

30.00 million246.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Yorùbá
(al arabiya) العربية

Alternative Names

Yariba, Yooba
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic

French Name

yoruba
arabe

German Name

Yoruba-Sprache
Arabisch

Pronunciation

[jòɾùbá]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/

Ethnicity

Yoruba people
Arabs

History

Origin

4 BC
512 CE

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family

Subgroup

Western Sudanic
Semitic

Branch

Kwa
North Arabic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Yorùbá
Modern Standard Arabic

Language Position

4925
1 120
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Signed Forms

Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Arabic

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

yo
ar

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yor
ara

ISO 639 2/B

yor
ara

ISO 639 3

yor
ara

ISO 639 6

yor
ara

Glottocode

yoru1245
arab1395

Linguasphere

No data available
12-AAC

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic

Yoruba and Arabic Alphabets

Yoruba and Arabic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Yoruba and Arabic. In Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Yoruba and Arabic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Yoruba and Arabic languages. The Yoruba phonology consist Yoruba vowels and Yoruba consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Yoruba greetings vs Arabic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Yoruba and Arabic are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Yoruba and Arabic Speaking population

Yoruba and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. 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 Yoruba and Arabic on Yoruba vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Yoruba and Arabic Language Codes

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