Yor

Also Known As: Yariba,Ede-yoruba,Yooba,Yoruba Description: Yoruba (native name èdè Yorùbá, 'the Yoruba language') is a dialect continuum of West Africa with over 25 million speakers. The native tongue of the approximately 28 million Yoruba people, it is spoken, among other languages, in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo and traces of it are found among communities in Brazil, Sierra Leone (where it is called Oku), northern Ghana (where it is spoken by urban migrant Yoruba communities alongside Hausa and local languages) and Cuba (where it is called Nago). Yoruba is an isolating, tonal language with SVO syntax. Apart from referring to the aggregate of dialects and their speakers, the term Yoruba is used for the standard, written form of the language. Yoruba is classified as a Niger-Congo language of the Yoruboid branch of Defoid, Benue-Congo. Yoruba is the third most spoken native African language. The traditional Yoruba area — currently comprising the southwestern portion of Nigeria, the republics of Benin and Togo — is commonly called Ìlẹ-Yorùbá or Yorubaland. The Nigeria component comprises today's Ọyọ, Ọsun, Ogun, Ondo, Ekiti, Kwara, and Lagos states as well as the western part of Kogi state. Geophysically, Yorubaland forms part of a plateau..... full article at Wikipedia Location of Yoruba Language Speakers http://llmap.org/languages/yor/static_map.png?width=400&height=300&kilroywashere=.png Rosetta Document Collection Detailed Description: 1 (download) (browse) Genesis Translation: 1 (download) (browse) 2 (download) (browse) Grammar: 1 (download) (browse) Orthography: 1 (download) (browse) 2 (download) (browse) 3 (download) (browse) Phonology: 1 (download) (browse) Universal Declaration Of Human Rights: 1 (download) (browse)

Overview Main Country: Nigeria Spoken In: Countries: Nigeria Regions: Africa ISO 639-1 Code: yo ISO 639-3 Code: yor Classification Taxonomy All Languages   Niger-Congo Group     Atlantic-Congo Group       Volta-Congo Group         Benue-Congo Group           Defoid Group             Yoruboid Group               Edekiri Group                 Yoruba Language