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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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This category contains articles with Yoruba-language text. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages. This category should only be added with the {} family of templates, never explicitly.
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.
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]
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
Yoruba drums typically belong to four major families, which are used depending on the context or genre where they are played. The Dùndún / Gángan family, is the class of hourglass shaped talking drums, which imitate the sound of Yoruba speech. This is possible because the Yoruba language is tonal in nature.