Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2929
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
129
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1720
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
hallo
Thank You
e dupe
takk
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
god natt
Good Evening
ka a ale
god kveld
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
e kaaro
god morgen
Please
Jowo
Vær så snill
Sorry
binu
unnskyld
Bye
bye
ha det
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
500,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ede
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Sogn
How Many People Speak
800,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
10,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2019
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
Norsk
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Norsk
French Name
yoruba
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Norwegians
Origin
4 BC
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Germanic
Branch
Kwa
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
4918
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
yo
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
nor
ISO 639 2/B
yor
nor
ISO 639 3
yor
nor
ISO 639 6
yor
nor
Glottocode
yoru1245
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Fusional