Yoruba language
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)ne2007 | |||
Language family | ||||
Writing system | 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 | |||
Linguasphere | 98-AAA-a | |||
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Yoruba Language Media
A Yoruba speaker, recorded in South Africa
Shaki dialect
Oyo dialect from Iwo
(Ijan) Ekiti dialect
English: Short oral history of Ile Ife in Ile Ife language by Tunde Odunlade, a Nigerian artiste and dancer. The video was shot at Tunde Odunlade Art Gallery, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria on the 10th of May 2021 by Tunde Oladimeji, a pioneer indigenous documentary filmmaker.*Yoruba: Die ninu itan Ile Ife ni ede Ile Ife ti Tunde Odunlade, ti o je ayaworan ati onijo so.
Ikale dialect
References
This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Yoruba language edition. |