Countries
Benin, Nigeria
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
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
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2953
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1215
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1741
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
e dupe
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
ka a ale
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
e kaaro
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
Jowo
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
binu
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
bye
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
500,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ede
Mappila
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
India
How Many People Speak
800,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Nigeria
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
10,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
yoruba
malayalam
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Malayali
Origin
4 BC
9th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
-
Branch
Kwa
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Malayalam
Language Position
4929
1
120
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Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
yo
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
mal
ISO 639 2/B
yor
mal
ISO 639 3
yor
mal
ISO 639 6
yor
mal
Glottocode
yoru1245
mala1464
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic