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Countries

Countries

Benin, Nigeria
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council

Total No. Of Countries

25
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America

Regulated By

Yoruba Academy
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language 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.
  • Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
  • There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.

Similar To

Owo and Itsekiri languages
Norwegian and Swedish

Derived From

-
Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2929
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1220
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1720
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ẹ n lẹ
Hallo

Thank You

e dupe
Mange tak

How Are You?

Bawo ni o se wa
Hvordan har du det?

Good Night

Kasun layọ o
God nat

Good Evening

ka a ale
God aften

Good Afternoon

e kaasan
God eftermiddag

Good Morning

e kaaro
God morgen

Please

Jowo
Please

Sorry

binu
Undskyld!

Bye

bye
Farvel

I Love You

mo nifẹ rẹ
Jeg elsker dig

Excuse Me

mo tọrọ gafara
Undskyld mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Itsekiri
Scanian

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Sweden

How Many People Speak

500,000.0080,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ede
Jutlandic

Where They Speak

Benin, Togo
Denmark

How Many People Speak

800,000.006,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ulukwumi
Bornholmsk

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Island of Bornholm

How Many People Speak

10,000.006,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

204
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million5.50 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

28.00 million5.50 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

30.00 million6.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Yorùbá
dansk

Alternative Names

Yariba, Yooba
Dansk, Rigsdansk

French Name

yoruba
danois

German Name

Yoruba-Sprache
Dänisch

Pronunciation

[jòɾùbá]
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]

Ethnicity

Yoruba people
Danish people or Danes

History

Origin

4 BC
c. 1100 AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Western Sudanic
-

Branch

Kwa
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish

Standard Forms

Yorùbá
Rigsdansk

Language Position

4918
1 120
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Signed Forms

Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Danish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

yo
da

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yor
dan

ISO 639 2/B

yor
dan

ISO 639 3

yor
dan

ISO 639 6

yor
dan

Glottocode

yoru1245
dani1284

Linguasphere

No data available
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Fusional

Yoruba and Danish Alphabets

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

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

Yoruba and Danish Speaking population

Yoruba and Danish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and Danish languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and Danish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Danish language is 0.07 %. 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 Danish on Yoruba vs Danish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Yoruba and Danish Language Codes

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