Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Palau
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2999
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1714
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
e dupe
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
ka a ale
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
e kaaro
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Jowo
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
binu
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
500,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ede
Hakata
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
800,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Kansai
Where They Speak
Nigeria
kansai
How Many People Speak
10,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2031
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
日本語
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Nihongo
French Name
yoruba
japonais
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
4 BC
1185
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
-
Branch
Kwa
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Japanese
Language Position
498
1
120
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Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
yo
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
yor
jpn
ISO 639 3
yor
jpn
ISO 639 6
yor
jpn
Glottocode
yoru1245
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative, Synthetic