Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
Indonesia
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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
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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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2927
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1721
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
Halo
Thank You
e dupe
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
piye kabare?
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
ka a ale
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
e kaaro
Sugeng énjing
Please
Jowo
matur nuwun
Sorry
binu
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
500,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ede
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
800,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Arekan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
10,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2016
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
yoruba
javanais
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
4 BC
450 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Indonesian
Branch
Kwa
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Javanese
Language Position
4911
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
yo
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
jav
ISO 639 2/B
yor
jav
ISO 639 3
yor
jav
ISO 639 6
yor
jav
Glottocode
yoru1245
java1253
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative