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Preferred term

yorYoruba  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Yorùbá (native name èdè Yorùbá, the Yorùbá language) is a Niger–Congo language spoken in West Africa by approximately 20 million speakers. The native tongue of the Yoruba people, it is spoken, among other languages, in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo and in communities in other parts of Africa, Europe and the Americas. It is most closely related to the Itsekiri language spoken in the Niger-Delta and Igala spoken in central Nigeria.

Entry terms

  • Yoruba language

ISO 639-1 code

  • yo

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • yor

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • yor

ISO 639-3 code

  • yor

Notation

  • yor

In other languages

  • Yoruba

    French

  • yoruba
  • Yoruba

    German

  • yoruba

    Italian

  • Lingua yoruba
  • ioruba

    Portuguese

  • Língua iorubá
  • yoruba

    Spanish

  • Idioma yoruba

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/yor

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