Concept information
Preferred term
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
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йоруба
Bulgarian
-
joruba
Croatian
-
jorubština
Czech
-
yoruba
Danish
-
Yoruba
Dutch
-
joruba
Estonian
-
joruba
Finnish
-
yoruba
French
-
yorouba
-
Yoruba
German
-
γιορούμπα
Greek
-
joruba
Hungarian
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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
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عِدعِ يوْرُبا
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/YOR
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