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Countries

Countries

Benin, Nigeria
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
France, Spain

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
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Yoruba Academy
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee

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 Basque language is the oldest European language.
  • Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.

Similar To

Owo and Itsekiri languages
Spanish

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2927
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

125
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1721
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ẹ n lẹ
Kaixo

Thank You

e dupe
Eskerrik asko

How Are You?

Bawo ni o se wa
Zer moduz?

Good Night

Kasun layọ o
Gabon

Good Evening

ka a ale
Arratsalde on

Good Afternoon

e kaasan
Arratsalde on

Good Morning

e kaaro
Egun on

Please

Jowo
Mesedez

Sorry

binu
Barkatu

Bye

bye
Agur

I Love You

mo nifẹ rẹ
Maite zaitut

Excuse Me

mo tọrọ gafara
Barkatu

Dialects

Dialect 1

Itsekiri
Navarro-Lapurdian

Where They Speak

Nigeria
France

How Many People Speak

500,000.0068,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ede
Souletin

Where They Speak

Benin, Togo
France, Soule, Spain

How Many People Speak

800,000.008,700.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ulukwumi
Biscayan

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Spain

How Many People Speak

10,000.00750,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

206
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million7.20 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.12 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

28.00 million7.20 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

30.00 million0.70 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Yorùbá
Euskara

Alternative Names

Yariba, Yooba
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense

French Name

yoruba
basque

German Name

Yoruba-Sprache
Baskisch

Pronunciation

[jòɾùbá]
[bɑːsk]

Ethnicity

Yoruba people
Basque people

History

Origin

4 BC
c. 1000

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Vasconic Family

Subgroup

Western Sudanic
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Branch

Kwa
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian

Standard Forms

Yorùbá
Basque

Language Position

4930
1 120
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Signed Forms

Yoruba Sign Language
Basque Sign Language

Scope

Individual
-

Code

ISO 639 1

yo
eu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yor
eus

ISO 639 2/B

yor
baq

ISO 639 3

yor
eus

ISO 639 6

yor
eus

Glottocode

yoru1245
basq1248

Linguasphere

No data available
40-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
-

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative

Yoruba and Basque Alphabets

Yoruba and Basque Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Yoruba and Basque. In Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Basque Alphabets there are 27 letters. To learn Yoruba and Basque languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Yoruba and Basque 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 Basque greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Yoruba and Basque are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Yoruba and Basque Speaking population

Yoruba and Basque speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and Basque languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and Basque Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Basque language is 0.12 %. 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 Basque on Yoruba vs Basque where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Yoruba and Basque Language Codes

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