Yoruba language
Yorùbá is a sub-Saharan language. It is the native tongue of the Yorùbá people, and is spoken among other languages in Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Sierra Leone, as well as by communities in Brazil and Cuba (where it is called Nago). It belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family, and has nearly 30 million speakers. Yorùbá is an isolating, tonal language with SVO syntax.
Yorùbá has proven to be fruitful from a linguistic point of view: its vowel harmony system, its extensive morphophonology, its tonology and its numerous reduplicative processes are well documented and continue to be the subject of linguistic analysis.
Yorùbá Alphabet
- A B C D E Ẹ F G GB H I J K L M N O Ọ P R S Ṣ T U W Y
