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Countries

Countries

Benin, Nigeria
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

233
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
South Africa

Regulated By

Yoruba Academy
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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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Owo and Itsekiri languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

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Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2926
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

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

37
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ẹ n lẹ
Hello

Thank You

e dupe
Thank you

How Are You?

Bawo ni o se wa
How are you?

Good Night

Kasun layọ o
Good Night

Good Evening

ka a ale
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

e kaasan
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

e kaaro
Good Morning

Please

Jowo
Please

Sorry

binu
Sorry

Bye

bye
Bye

I Love You

mo nifẹ rẹ
I love you

Excuse Me

mo tọrọ gafara
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Itsekiri
American English

Where They Speak

Nigeria
United States of America

How Many People Speak

500,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ede
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Benin, Togo
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

800,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ulukwumi
Welsh English

Where They Speak

Nigeria
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

10,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

20188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

28.00 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

30.00 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Yorùbá
English

Alternative Names

Yariba, Yooba
English

French Name

yoruba
anglais

German Name

Yoruba-Sprache
Englisch

Pronunciation

[jòɾùbá]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Yoruba people
English people

History

Origin

4 BC
5th Century AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Western Sudanic
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Branch

Kwa
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Yorùbá
Standard English

Language Position

493
1 120
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Signed Forms

Yoruba Sign Language
Signed English

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

yo
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yor
eng

ISO 639 2/B

yor
eng

ISO 639 3

yor
eng

ISO 639 6

yor
engs

Glottocode

yoru1245
stan1293

Linguasphere

No data available
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Yoruba and English Alphabets

Yoruba and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Yoruba and English. In Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Yoruba and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Yoruba and English 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 English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Yoruba and English are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Yoruba and English Speaking population

Yoruba and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and English languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Yoruba vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Yoruba and English Language Codes

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