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Yoruba

Other Niger-Congo Languages

Yoruba is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in West Africa, primarily in South West Nigeria, Benin, and parts of Togo.

Facts
ISO 639-3 Code
yor 1
Speaker Count
50,000,000 1
Ethnologue total figure, 2023.
Status
Living 1
Wikipedia article on Yoruba: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27.
Region
Yorubaland (primarily South West Nigeria, Benin, and Togo; also Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, and Gambia) 1
Connections

In Family

Niger-Congo, Language Families
Source Wikipedia: Yoruba Language

Written In

Latin Script, Scripts
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Divinity Atlas: The Caribbean, cases where used there.
  • Also in Divinity Atlas: West Africa, cases where used there.
  • Also in Divinity Atlas: West Africa and the Caribbean, cases where used there.
  • Also in Divinity Atlas: Yorubaland, cases where used there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Africa, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Nigeria, located there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Yorubaland, found in there.
  • Also in Society and Culture Atlas: Yoruba, cases where used there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Yoruba Language
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    Yoruba ... is an Atlantic-Congo language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in South West Nigeria, Benin, and parts of Togo.
  • Infobox, ISO 639-3
    yor
  • Infobox, Speakers (Total)
    50 million (2023)
  • Infobox, Region
    Yorubaland (primarily South West Nigeria, Benin, and Togo; also in Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, and Gambia)
  • In Family: Niger-Congo, Infobox, Language family
    Niger-Congo(?) - Atlantic-Congo - Volta-Congo - Volta-Niger - Yoruboid - Edekiri - Yoruba
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