Yoruba language

The Yoruba language is a Niger-Congo language spoken in West Africa. The number of speakers of Yoruba was thought to be 20 million in the 1990s. It is one of the languages in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo and in communities in other parts of Africa, Europe and the Americas.

Yoruba
Èdè Yorùbá
Native to	Nigeria, Benin, Togo
Ethnicity	Yoruba people
Native speakers	28 million (2007)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta–Niger YEAI Yoruboid Edekiri Yoruba
Writing system	Latin (Yoruba alphabet) Yoruba Braille
Official status
Official language in	Nigeria  Benin  Togo
Language codes
ISO 639-1	yo
ISO 639-2	yor
ISO 639-3	yor
Glottolog	yoru1245
Linguasphere	98-AAA-a
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