Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
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
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
-
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2933
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1728
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
e dupe
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
ka a ale
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
e kaaro
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
Jowo
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
binu
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
500,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ede
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Kartli
How Many People Speak
800,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
10,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2020
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.42 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
28.00 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
30.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Yorùbá
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
yoruba
géorgien
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Georgians
Origin
4 BC
5th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Southern
Branch
Kwa
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Modern Georgian
Language Position
49120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
yo
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
kat
ISO 639 2/B
yor
geo
ISO 639 3
yor
kat
ISO 639 6
yor
kat
Glottocode
yoru1245
nucl1302
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative, Synthetic