Yoruba leid

Yorùbá
	èdè Yorùbá
Native tae	Nigerie, Togo, Benin
Ethnicity	Yoruba fowk
Native speakers	28 million (2007)
Leid faimily	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta–Niger YEAI Yoruboid Edekiri Yorùbá; ; ; ; ; ;
Writin seestem	Latin (Yoruba alphabet); Yoruba Braille
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Nigerie
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	yo
ISO 639-2	yor
ISO 639-3	yor

Yoruba /ˈjɒrʊbə/^[2] (natively èdè Yorùbá) is a Niger–Congo leid spak in Wast Africae.The nummer o speakers o Yoruba wis estimatit at aroond 20 million in the 1990s.^[3] The native tongue o the Yoruba fowk is spak, amang ither leids, in Nigerie, Benin, an Togo an in communities in ither pairts o Africae, Europe an the Americaes. A variety o the leid, Lucumi, frae olukunmi is uised as the liturgical leid o the Santerie releegion o Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic an the Unitit States. It is maist closely relatit tae the Owo an Itsekiri leid (spak in the Niger-Delta) an Igala spak in central Nigerie.^[4]

References

Freemit airtins

Yoruba World Centre - Information service, Heritage promotion, Language learning and Yorùbá digital content development (2000) Archived 2017-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
Map of Yoruba language from the LL-Map project Archived 2013-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
Information on the Yoruba language from the MultiTree project Archived 2013-03-13 at the Wayback Machine
Yoruba For Kids Abroad - Interactive for Yoruba Language Software for Yoruba Children Archived 2017-05-25 at the Wayback Machine
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kasahorow Yoruba Dictionary Archived 2010-10-22 at the Wayback Machine
Ọrọ èdè Yorùbá Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine - promotes the digital presentation o proper Yorùbá orthography throu the creation an modification o Opensource software.
Ethnologue report for Yoruba
Omniglot: Yoruba orthography
Yoruba dictionary
xLingua: Yoruba-Online-Dictionary English-Yoruba / Yoruba-English Archived 2019-01-08 at the Wayback Machine
Sabere d'owo Yoruba video drama series Archived 2007-07-12 at the Wayback Machine. Radio Abeokuta (2006).
Yoruba Grammar
Pan-African Localization page for Yoruba
Yoruba in Russia - aw aboot yoruba cultur, airt, traditional religion. Yoruba leid lessons
Yoruba in North America Archived 2018-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
USA Foreign Service Institute Yoruba basic course
Journal of West African Languages: Yoruba Archived 2012-03-02 at the Wayback Machine

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