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
Èdè Yorùbá
Native toNigeria, Benin, Togo
EthnicityYoruba people
Native speakers
28 million (2007)[1]
Niger–Congo
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Volta–Niger
      • YEAI
        • Yoruboid
          • Edekiri
            • Yoruba
Latin (Yoruba alphabet)
Yoruba Braille
Official status
Official language in
 Nigeria
 Benin
 Togo
Language codes
ISO 639-1yo
ISO 639-2yor
ISO 639-3yor
Glottologyoru1245
Linguasphere98-AAA-a

References
  1. Mikael Parkvall, "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), in Nationalencyklopedin
Yoruba edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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