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  1. Yoruba language - Wikipedia

    Literary Yoruba, also known as Standard Yoruba, Yoruba koiné, and common Yoruba, is a separate member of the dialect cluster. It is the written form of the language, the standard variety learned at …

  2. Yoruba language | West African, Nigeria, Benin | Britannica

    Yoruba is spoken by more than 20 million people in southwestern Nigeria and parts of Benin and Togo. It is also used widely as a second language in this area.

  3. Yoruba language and alphabet - Omniglot

    Yoruba is spoken by about 42 million people in Nigeria, is one of the four official languages of Nigeria, along with English, Hausa and Igbo, and the de facto provincial language in the southwestern region. …

  4. Yoruba Online

    Yorùbá is a Kwa language, which belongs to the Yoruboid group under the Niger-Congo phylum. It has three basic but significant tones. One of the effects of the large number of Yorùbá speakers and their …

  5. Yorùbá - African and African-American Studies

    Yorùbá is a West African language spoken mainly in Nigeria, Benin and parts of Togo and Sierra Leone. Yoruba is also spoken in areas of Brazil, Cuba, Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago, and Haiti.

  6. Yoruba – The Languages

    Yoruba, one of the four official languages of Nigeria, is spoken by approximately 20 million people in southwestern Nigeria and neighboring regions in Benin and Togo. It’s also found in diasporic …

  7. Yoruba | Penn Language Center - University of Pennsylvania

    Today, there are 60 million Yoruba on the African continent and in the New World. Yoruba is a name that encompasses numerous pre-colonial groups, all of which spoke various dialects of the same …

  8. YORUBA | Howard University Department of World Languages and …

    Yorùbá is one of the three major languages in Nigeria. There are over forty million speakers of the language in the Southwestern part of Nigeria. Yorùbá has over twenty dialects like Ìbàdàn, Ìjẹ̀ṣà, …

  9. A Complete Overview of The Yoruba Language – World Schoolbooks

    Yoruba (Èdè Yorùbá), one of the most widely spoken languages in West Africa, is the native language of the Yoruba people, primarily found in southwestern Nigeria and parts of Benin and Togo.

  10. Yoruba | History, Language & Religion | Britannica

    Dec 19, 2025 · Yoruba, one of the three largest ethnic groups of Nigeria, concentrated in the southwestern part of that country. Much smaller, scattered groups live in Benin and northern Togo. …