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Yoruba  

Definition

  • Yoruba is an Atlantic-Congo language that belongs to the Volta Niger group spoken in West Africa, most prominently in Southwestern Nigeria. It is spoken by the ethnic Yoruba people. Yoruba was – and still partially is – written in the Ajami script, a form of Arabic script but the language is mainly written in two special versions of the Latin alphabet, the Nigerian and the Beninese forms. It is part of the hypothetical Niger-Congo language family.

Identifier

  • YOR

Notation

  • YO
  • yo
  • yor

In other languages

  • йоруба

    Bulgarian

  • joruba

    Croatian

  • jorubština

    Czech

  • yoruba

    Danish

  • Yoruba

    Dutch

  • joruba

    Estonian

  • joruba

    Finnish

  • yoruba

    French

  • yorouba
  • Yoruba

    German

  • γιορούμπα

    Greek

  • joruba

    Hungarian

  • Iarúibis

    Irish

  • yoruba

    Italian

  • jorubu valoda

    Latvian

  • jorubų

    Lithuanian

  • Yoruba

    Maltese

  • joruba

    Polish

  • ioruba

    Portuguese

  • yoruba

    Romanian

  • jorubčina

    Slovak

  • joruba

    Slovenian

  • yoruba

    Spanish

  • yoruba

    Swedish

  • йоруба мова

    Ukrainian

  • Èdè Yorùbá

    Yoruba

  • عِدعِ يوْرُبا

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/YOR

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