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Countries

Countries

Benin, Nigeria
Meghalaya

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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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

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2923
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

126
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1714
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Bengali, Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

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
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

Dialects

Dialect 1

Itsekiri
Bhoi

Where They Speak

Nigeria
-

How Many People Speak

500,000.001,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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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
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Dialect 3

Ulukwumi
Cherrapunji

Where They Speak

Nigeria
-

How Many People Speak

10,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

205
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million0.84 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.01 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

28.00 million0.84 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

30.00 million1.50 million
0.01 400
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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

History

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
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Signed Forms

Yoruba Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

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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Yoruba and Khasi Alphabets

Yoruba and Khasi Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Yoruba and Khasi. In Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters. To learn Yoruba and Khasi languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Yoruba and Khasi 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 Khasi greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Yoruba and Khasi are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Yoruba and Khasi Speaking population

Yoruba and Khasi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and Khasi languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and Khasi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 %. 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 Khasi on Yoruba vs Khasi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Yoruba and Khasi Language Codes

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