Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
211
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2929
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1721
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
Merhaba
Thank You
e dupe
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Nasılsın?
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
ka a ale
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
Tünaydın
Good Morning
e kaaro
günaydın
Please
Jowo
lütfen
Sorry
binu
üzgünüm
Bye
bye
Hoşçakal
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
500,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ede
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
800,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Gagauz
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
10,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
209
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
yoruba
turc
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Turkish
Origin
4 BC
c. 1350
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Turkic
Branch
Kwa
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
4919
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
yo
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
tur
ISO 639 2/B
yor
tur
ISO 639 3
yor
tur
ISO 639 6
yor
tur
Glottocode
yoru1245
nucl1301
Linguasphere
No data available
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic