Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Yemen
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
-
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2926
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1721
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
Hello
Thank You
e dupe
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
ka a ale
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
e kaaro
Subax wanaagsan
Please
Jowo
Fadlan
Sorry
binu
sorry
Bye
bye
caraysiiyo
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
500,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ede
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
800,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
10,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
yoruba
somali
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Somali
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Somalis
Origin
4 BC
19th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Cushitic
Branch
Kwa
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Somali
Language Position
4983
1
120
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Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
yo
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
som
ISO 639 2/B
yor
som
ISO 639 3
yor
som
ISO 639 6
yor
som
Glottocode
yoru1245
soma1255
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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