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Yoruba
Yoruba

Swedish
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Countries

Countries

Benin, Nigeria
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
Sweden

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Finland

Speaking Continents

Africa
Antartica, Europe

Minority Language

Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Yoruba Academy
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish 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.
  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.

Similar To

Owo and Itsekiri languages
Norwegian and Danish Language

Derived From

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Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2929
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

129
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1718
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ẹ n lẹ
hej

Thank You

e dupe
tacka dig

How Are You?

Bawo ni o se wa
hur mår du

Good Night

Kasun layọ o
godnatt

Good Evening

ka a ale
god kväll

Good Afternoon

e kaasan
god eftermiddag

Good Morning

e kaaro
god morgon

Please

Jowo
vänligen

Sorry

binu
ledsen

Bye

bye
hej då

I Love You

mo nifẹ rẹ
jag älskar dig

Excuse Me

mo tọrọ gafara
ursäkta mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Itsekiri
Dialects

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Gabon

How Many People Speak

500,000.0078,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ede
Dialects

Where They Speak

Benin, Togo
Georgia

How Many People Speak

800,000.0078,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ulukwumi
Dialects

Where They Speak

Nigeria
France

How Many People Speak

10,000.0096,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2079
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million15.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

28.00 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

30.00 million5.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Yorùbá
Svenska

Alternative Names

Yariba, Yooba
Ruotsi, Svenska

French Name

yoruba
suédois

German Name

Yoruba-Sprache
Schwedisch

Pronunciation

[jòɾùbá]
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]

Ethnicity

Yoruba people
Swedes, Finland Swedes

History

Origin

4 BC
13th Century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Western Sudanic
Germanic

Branch

Kwa
Northern (Scandinavian)

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Swedish

Standard Forms

Yorùbá
Standard Swedish

Language Position

4989
1 120
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Signed Forms

Yoruba Sign Language
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

yo
sv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yor
swe

ISO 639 2/B

yor
swe

ISO 639 3

yor
swe

ISO 639 6

yor
swe

Glottocode

yoru1245
swed1254

Linguasphere

No data available
52-AAA-ck to -cw

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
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Yoruba and Swedish Alphabets

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

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

Yoruba and Swedish Speaking population

Yoruba and Swedish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and Swedish languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and Swedish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 %. 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 Swedish on Yoruba vs Swedish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Yoruba and Swedish Language Codes

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