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Yoruba
Yoruba

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Countries

Countries

Benin, Nigeria
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Yoruba Academy
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

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

Derived From

-
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2926
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1210
0 32
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How Many Consonants

179
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ẹ n lẹ
hallo

Thank You

e dupe
Danke

How Are You?

Bawo ni o se wa
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Kasun layọ o
gute Nacht

Good Evening

ka a ale
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

e kaasan
guten Tag

Good Morning

e kaaro
guten Morgen

Please

Jowo
bitte

Sorry

binu
Verzeihung

Bye

bye
Tschüs

I Love You

mo nifẹ rẹ
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

mo tọrọ gafara
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Itsekiri
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

500,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ede
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Benin, Togo
Germany

How Many People Speak

800,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ulukwumi
Texas German

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Texas

How Many People Speak

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

2028
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

28.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

30.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Yorùbá
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Yariba, Yooba
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

yoruba
allemand

German Name

Yoruba-Sprache
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[jòɾùbá]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Yoruba people
Germans

History

Origin

4 BC
6th Century AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Western Sudanic
Germanic

Branch

Kwa
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Yorùbá
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

499
1 120
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Signed Forms

Yoruba Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

yo
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yor
deu

ISO 639 2/B

yor
ger

ISO 639 3

yor
deu

ISO 639 6

yor
deus

Glottocode

yoru1245
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic

Yoruba and German Alphabets

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

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

Yoruba and German Speaking population

Yoruba and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and German languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Yoruba vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Yoruba and German Language Codes

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