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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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