Countries
Benin, Nigeria
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2952
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1216
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1736
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
Namaskar
Thank You
e dupe
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
kaso assa?
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
ka a ale
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
e kaaro
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
Jowo
Chike
Sorry
binu
Maf kor
Bye
bye
Adeus
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Antruz
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Goa
How Many People Speak
500,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ede
Not present
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
-
How Many People Speak
800,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Not present
Where They Speak
Nigeria
-
How Many People Speak
10,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
201
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
yoruba
konkani
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Konkani
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Konkanis
Origin
4 BC
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
-
Branch
Kwa
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Kokani
Language Position
4923
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
yo
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
kok
ISO 639 2/B
yor
kok
ISO 639 3
yor
kok
ISO 639 6
yor
kok
Glottocode
yoru1245
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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