Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
University of Sarajevo
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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2930
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1725
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
Zdravo
Thank You
e dupe
Hvala
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Kako si?
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Laku noc
Good Evening
ka a ale
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
Dobar dan
Good Morning
e kaaro
Dobro jutro
Please
Jowo
molim vas
Sorry
binu
Oprostite
Bye
bye
Zbogom
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Volim te
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
500,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ede
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Croatia
How Many People Speak
800,000.00660,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Kajkavian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Croatia
How Many People Speak
10,000.0021,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
206
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million3.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Bosanski Jezik
French Name
yoruba
bosniaque
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Bosniaks
Origin
4 BC
19th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
-
Branch
Kwa
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Bosnian
Language Position
4924
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Bosnian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
yo
bs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
bos
ISO 639 2/B
yor
bos
ISO 639 3
yor
bos
ISO 639 6
yor
boss
Glottocode
yoru1245
bosn1245
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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