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Yoruba (US: / ˈ j ɔːr ə b ə /, [2] UK: / ˈ j ɒr ʊ b ə /; [3] Yor. Èdè Yorùbá) is a Niger-Congo language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in Southwestern and Central Nigeria.
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The name Yoruboid derived from its most widely spoken member, Yoruba, which has around 55 million primary and secondary speakers. [citation needed] Another well-known Yoruboid language is Itsekiri (about 1,000,000 speakers). The Yoruboid group is a branch of Defoid, which also includes the Akoko and Ayere-Ahan languages. [2]
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The Yoruba Names Project is set up to help document the Yoruba language first through all the names borne by its people, and later through an online dictionary.. It is part of a larger effort to help document the African cultural experience on the internet by making them easy to write and access via information technology.
Yoruba may refer to: Yoruba people, an ethnic group of West Africa; Yoruba language, a West African language of the Volta–Niger language family; Yoruba alphabet, a Latin alphabet used to write in the Yoruba language; Yoruba religion, West African religion; Yorubaland, the region occupied by the Yoruba people; Yoruba, a genus of ground spiders
There appears to be an obvious and strict rule of change from [F] in Yoruba and other Okun dialects to [H] in Oworo. Similar changes occur with several other vowels and consonants with lesser strictness. For example, the words funfun, ìfẹ́ and òsì meaning white, love and left are rendered hunhun, ìhẹ́ and òhì in Oworo respectively. [2]
The Yoruba are a large ethno-linguistic group or ethnic nation in Africa; the majority of them speak the Yoruba language. Subcategories This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.