Yoruba language
Niger-Congo language spoken in West Africa
The Yoruba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken in West Africa. The number of speakers of Yoruba was thought to be 20 million in the 1990s. It is one of the languages in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo and in communities in other parts of Africa, Europe and the Americas.
Yoruba | |
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Èdè Yorùbá | |
Native to | Nigeria, Benin, Togo |
Ethnicity | Yoruba people |
Native speakers | 28 million (2007)[1] |
Latin (Yoruba alphabet) Yoruba Braille | |
Official status | |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | yo |
ISO 639-2 | yor |
ISO 639-3 | yor |
Glottolog | yoru1245 |
Linguasphere | 98-AAA-a |
References
change- ↑ Mikael Parkvall, "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), in Nationalencyklopedin
Yoruba edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia