Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Middle East
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
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 vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2933
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1729
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
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Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
Silaw
Thank You
e dupe
Sipas
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Şev xweş
Good Evening
ka a ale
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
e kaaro
Bayanit bash
Please
Jowo
Bê zehmet
Sorry
binu
Bibûre
Bye
bye
Be xêr çî
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Nigeria
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
500,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ede
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
800,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
10,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.42 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
28.00 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Yorùbá
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
yoruba
kurde
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Kurds
Origin
4 BC
16th century CE
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Kwa
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Kurdish
Language Position
4914
1
120
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Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
yo
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
kur
ISO 639 2/B
yor
kur
ISO 639 3
yor
kur
ISO 639 6
yor
kur
Glottocode
yoru1245
kurd1259
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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