Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2923
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1714
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
Kumno
Thank You
e dupe
Khublei
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
thia sukh
Good Evening
ka a ale
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
e kaaro
khublei
Please
Jowo
Sngewbha
Sorry
binu
Map
Bye
bye
khublei
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
map a nga
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Bhoi
Where They Speak
Nigeria
-
How Many People Speak
500,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ede
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
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How Many People Speak
800,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
Nigeria
-
How Many People Speak
10,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
205
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million0.84 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
yoruba
khasi
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Khasi people
Origin
4 BC
1200 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
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Branch
Kwa
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Khasi
Language Position
4940
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
yo
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
kha
ISO 639 2/B
yor
kha
ISO 639 3
yor
kha
ISO 639 6
yor
kha
Glottocode
yoru1245
khas1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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