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Countries

Countries

Benin, Nigeria
India, Pakistan

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
Pakistan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Oceania

Minority Language

Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
India

Regulated By

Yoruba Academy
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan

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.
  • Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
  • Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.

Similar To

Owo and Itsekiri languages
Arabic and Hindi Languages

Derived From

-
Ghaznavid Persian Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2952
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1210
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1740
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ẹ n lẹ
خوش آمديد

Thank You

e dupe
آپ کا شکریہ

How Are You?

Bawo ni o se wa
آپ کیسے ہیں؟

Good Night

Kasun layọ o
گڈ نائٹ

Good Evening

ka a ale
سلام علیکم

Good Afternoon

e kaasan
گڈ آفٹر نون

Good Morning

e kaaro
گڈ مارننگ

Please

Jowo
براہ مہربانی

Sorry

binu
معاف کرنا

Bye

bye
الوداع

I Love You

mo nifẹ rẹ
مجھے تم سے محبت

Excuse Me

mo tọrọ gafara
معاف کیجئے گا

Dialects

Dialect 1

Itsekiri
Dakhini

Where They Speak

Nigeria
India

How Many People Speak

500,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ede
Hyderabadi Urdu

Where They Speak

Benin, Togo
India

How Many People Speak

800,000.0069,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Ulukwumi
Rekhta

Where They Speak

Nigeria
South Asia

How Many People Speak

10,000.0069,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

203
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

30.00 million104.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

28.00 million61.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

30.00 million43.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Yorùbá
اُردُو

Alternative Names

Yariba, Yooba
Bihari

French Name

yoruba
ourdou

German Name

Yoruba-Sprache
Urdu

Pronunciation

[jòɾùbá]
[ˈʊrd̪u]

Ethnicity

Yoruba people
Urdu-speaking people

History

Origin

4 BC
12th Century CE

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Western Sudanic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Kwa
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Yorùbá
Modern Standard Urdu

Language Position

4920
1 120
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Signed Forms

Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Urdu

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

yo
ur

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

yor
urd

ISO 639 2/B

yor
urd

ISO 639 3

yor
urd

ISO 639 6

yor
urd

Glottocode

yoru1245
urdu1245

Linguasphere

No data available
59-AAF-q

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
-

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating
Fusional

Yoruba and Urdu Alphabets

Yoruba and Urdu Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Yoruba and Urdu. In Yoruba Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Urdu Alphabets there are 52 letters. To learn Yoruba and Urdu languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Yoruba and Urdu 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 Urdu greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Yoruba and Urdu are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Yoruba and Urdu Speaking population

Yoruba and Urdu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and Urdu languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and Urdu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 %. 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 Urdu on Yoruba vs Urdu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Yoruba and Urdu Language Codes

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