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Name: Yoruba
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Yooba; Yariba; Ede-Yoruba
Spoken in: USA, Benin, Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo
Number of speakers: 18,900,000 in Nigeria (Johnstone 1993). Population total all countries: 19,380,800 (Ethnologue)
Code: yor
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup: Edekiri (edki)
Child Dialects: Ijebu (yor-ije) Yagba (yor-yag) Wo (yor-woo) Oyo (yor-oyo) Igbonna (yor-igb) Owe (yor-owe) Ikale (yor-ika) Ilaje (yor-ilj) Aworo (yor-awr) Ijesha (yor-ijs) Akono (yor-ako) Ekiti (yor-eki) Awori (yor-awo) Jumu (yor-jum) Egba (yor-egb) Bunu; Bini (yor-bun) Iworro (yor-iwo) Ila (yor-ila) Gbedde (yor-gbe) Ondo (yor-ond)

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