Yoruba
Niger-Congo language spoken in West Africa
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Summary
Yoruba is a natural language[1]. Yoruba ranks in the top 9% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,744 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Nigeria[3], Benin[4], Togo[5]
- Instance of: modern language[6]
- Subclass of: Nuclear Yoruba[7], Kwa[8]
- Writing system: Yoruba alphabet[9], Yoruba Braille[10]
- Commons category: Yoruba language[11]
- Wikimedia language code: yo[12]
- Coordinate location: 7, 3[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Yoruba language[14]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 37,800,000[15], 40,000,000[16]
- Used by: Yoruba people[17]
- Native label: Èdè Yorùbá[18], Yorùbá[19]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C154204[20]
- Different from: Yoruba people[21]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[22]
- Indigenous to: Nigeria[23], Benin[24], Togo[25], Lagos State[26], Ogun State[27], Osun State[28], Oyo State[29], Ekiti State[30], Ondo State[31]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/YOR[32]
- Ethnologue language status: 2 Provincial[33]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[34], isolating language[35]
Why It Matters
Yoruba has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] Yoruba is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]