Yoruba leid

Yorùbá
	èdè Yorùbá
Native tae	Nigerie, Togo, Benin
Ethnicity	Yoruba fowk
Native speakers	28 million (2007)
Leid faimily	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta–Niger YEAI Yoruboid Edekiri Yorùbá; ; ; ; ; ;
Writin seestem	Latin (Yoruba alphabet); Yoruba Braille
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Nigerie
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	yo
ISO 639-2	yor
ISO 639-3	yor

Yoruba /ˈjɒrʊbə/^[2] (natively èdè Yorùbá) is a Niger–Congo leid spak in Wast Africae. The nummer o speakers o Yoruba wis estimatit at aroond 20 million in the 1990s.^[3] The native tongue o the Yoruba fowk is spak, amang ither leids, in Nigerie, Benin, an Togo an in communities in ither pairts o Africae, Europe an the Americaes. A variety o the leid, Lucumi, frae olukunmi is uised as the liturgical leid o the Santerie releegion o Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic an the Unitit States. It is maist closely relatit tae the Owo an Itsekiri leid (spak in the Niger-Delta) an Igala spak in central Nigerie.^[4]

References

↑ Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007
↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
↑ Ethnologue 2009, wi figures frae 1993. Nae mair racent reliable estimate is kent. Metzler Lexikon Sprache (4th ed. 2010) estimates that thereaboot 30 million based on population growth figures outthrou the 1990s and 2000s. The population o Nigerie (whaur the majority o Yoruba bide) haes grown by 44% atween 1995 and 2010, sae that the Metzler estimate for 2010 appears plausible.
↑ Yoruba leid at Ethnologue (16t ed., 2009)

Freemit airtins

Yoruba World Centre - Information service, Heritage promotion, Language learning and Yorùbá digital content development (2000) Archived 2017-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
Map of Yoruba language from the LL-Map project Archived 2013-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
Information on the Yoruba language from the MultiTree project Archived 2013-03-13 at the Wayback Machine
Yoruba For Kids Abroad - Interactive for Yoruba Language Software for Yoruba Children Archived 2017-05-25 at the Wayback Machine
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kasahorow Yoruba Dictionary Archived 2010-10-22 at the Wayback Machine
Ọrọ èdè Yorùbá Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine - promotes the digital presentation o proper Yorùbá orthography throu the creation an modification o Opensource software.
Ethnologue report for Yoruba
Omniglot: Yoruba orthography
Yoruba dictionary
xLingua: Yoruba-Online-Dictionary English-Yoruba / Yoruba-English Archived 2019-01-08 at the Wayback Machine
Sabere d'owo Yoruba video drama series Archived 2007-07-12 at the Wayback Machine. Radio Abeokuta (2006).
Yoruba Grammar
Pan-African Localization page for Yoruba
Yoruba in Russia - aw aboot yoruba cultur, airt, traditional religion. Yoruba leid lessons
Yoruba in North America Archived 2018-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
USA Foreign Service Institute Yoruba basic course
Journal of West African Languages: Yoruba Archived 2012-03-02 at the Wayback Machine

[1] Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007

[2] Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh

[pop-3] Ethnologue 2009, wi figures frae 1993. Nae mair racent reliable estimate is kent. Metzler Lexikon Sprache (4th ed. 2010) estimates that thereaboot 30 million based on population growth figures outthrou the 1990s and 2000s. The population o Nigerie (whaur the majority o Yoruba bide) haes grown by 44% atween 1995 and 2010, sae that the Metzler estimate for 2010 appears plausible.

[4] Yoruba leid at Ethnologue (16t ed., 2009)

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