Countries
Benin, Nigeria
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2926
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1224
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1723
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
e dupe
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
ka a ale
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
e kaaro
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Jowo
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
binu
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Nigeria
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
500,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ede
Wu
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
800,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Yue
Where They Speak
Nigeria
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
10,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2010
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
yoruba
chinois
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Han
Origin
4 BC
1250 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
-
Branch
Kwa
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Standard Chinese
Language Position
491
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
yo
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
zho
ISO 639 2/B
yor
chi
ISO 639 3
yor
zho
ISO 639 6
yor
zho
Glottocode
yoru1245
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Analytic, Isolating