Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Armenian Highland
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
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.
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Greek
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2938
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1732
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Armenian manuscript
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
312
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
Բարեւ (Barev)
Thank You
e dupe
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Good Evening
ka a ale
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Good Morning
e kaaro
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
Please
Jowo
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
Sorry
binu
կներեք (knerek’)
Bye
bye
Ց'տեսություն
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
How Many People Speak
500,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ede
Western Armenian
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
800,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
-
How Many People Speak
10,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
202
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million6.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.22 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million6.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million7.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
French Name
yoruba
arménien
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Armenisch
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Armenians
Origin
4 BC
late 5th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
-
Branch
Kwa
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Language Position
4914
1
120
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Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Armenian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
yo
hy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
hye
ISO 639 2/B
yor
arm
ISO 639 3
yor
hye
ISO 639 6
yor
hye
Glottocode
yoru1245
arme1241
Linguasphere
No data available
57-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative, Synthetic