Countries
Benin, Nigeria
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
Nepal
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
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2948
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1212
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1736
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
e dupe
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
ka a ale
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
Good afternoon
Good Morning
e kaaro
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Jowo
कृपया
Sorry
binu
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Doteli
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Nepal
How Many People Speak
500,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ede
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
800,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Nepal
How Many People Speak
10,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2012
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Yorùbá
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
yoruba
népalais
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
4 BC
19 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Kwa
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Nepali
Language Position
4959
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
yo
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
nep
ISO 639 2/B
yor
nep
ISO 639 3
yor
npi
ISO 639 6
yor
nep
Glottocode
yoru1245
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Agglutinative