Countries
Benin, Nigeria
China
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
China
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Uzbek Language
Derived From
-
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2936
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
129
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1727
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
e dupe
rakhmat
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
ka a ale
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
e kaaro
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
Jowo
birdam
Sorry
binu
kachurung
Bye
bye
Khayr khosh
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Turpan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
China
How Many People Speak
500,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ede
Hotan
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
China
How Many People Speak
800,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
Nigeria
China
How Many People Speak
10,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
207
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million10.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
yoruba
ouïgour
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Uyghur
Origin
4 BC
11
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
-
Branch
Kwa
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Uyghur
Language Position
4998
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
yo
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
uig
ISO 639 2/B
yor
uig
ISO 639 3
yor
uig
ISO 639 6
yor
uig
Glottocode
yoru1245
uigh1240
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
-