Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Central Hindi Directorate
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.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Urdu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2944
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1211
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1733
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
e dupe
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
ka a ale
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
e kaaro
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
Jowo
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
binu
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
500,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ede
Marwari
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
800,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
10,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2021
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
yoruba
hindi
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Hindi
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Hindustani people
Origin
4 BC
7th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Kwa
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Standard Hindi
Language Position
495
1
120
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Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
yo
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
hin
ISO 639 2/B
yor
hin
ISO 639 3
yor
hin
ISO 639 6
yor
hins
Glottocode
yoru1245
hind1269
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional, Synthetic