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Countries

Countries

Benin, Nigeria
Cyprus, European Union, Greece

Total No. Of Countries

23
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Regulated By

Yoruba Academy
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)

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.
  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.

Similar To

Owo and Itsekiri languages
Armenian

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2924
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

127
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1717
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic, Latin

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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Greetings

Hello

Ẹ n lẹ
γεια σας (geia sas)

Thank You

e dupe
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)

How Are You?

Bawo ni o se wa
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)

Good Night

Kasun layọ o
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)

Good Evening

ka a ale
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)

Good Afternoon

e kaasan
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)

Good Morning

e kaaro
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)

Please

Jowo
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)

Sorry

binu
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)

Bye

bye
αντίο (antío)

I Love You

mo nifẹ rẹ
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)

Excuse Me

mo tọrọ gafara
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Itsekiri
Cappadocian Greek

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Greece

How Many People Speak

500,000.002,800.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ede
Griko

Where They Speak

Benin, Togo
Italy

How Many People Speak

800,000.0050,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ulukwumi
Mariupol

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Ukraine

How Many People Speak

10,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2025
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.18 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

28.00 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

30.00 million13.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Yorùbá
ελληνικά

Alternative Names

Yariba, Yooba
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic

French Name

yoruba
grec moderne (après 1453)

German Name

Yoruba-Sprache
Neugriechisch

Pronunciation

[jòɾùbá]
[eliniˈka]

Ethnicity

Yoruba people
Greeks or Hellenes

History

Origin

4 BC
1500 BC

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Western Sudanic
Hellenic

Branch

Kwa
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek

Standard Forms

Yorùbá
Modern Greek

Language Position

4974
1 120
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Signed Forms

Yoruba Sign Language
Greek Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

yo
el

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yor
ell

ISO 639 2/B

yor
gre

ISO 639 3

yor
ell

ISO 639 6

yor
ells

Glottocode

yoru1245
gree1276

Linguasphere

No data available
56-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic

Yoruba and Greek Alphabets

Yoruba and Greek Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Yoruba and Greek. In Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Greek Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Yoruba and Greek languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Yoruba and Greek 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 Greek greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Yoruba and Greek are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Yoruba and Greek Speaking population

Yoruba and Greek speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and Greek languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and Greek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 %. 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 Greek on Yoruba vs Greek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Yoruba and Greek Language Codes

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