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Yoruba /ˈjɒrʊbə/ (natively èdè Yorùbá) is a Niger–Congo language spoken in West Africa.The number of speakers of Yoruba was estimated at around 20 million in the 1990s. The native tongue of the Yoruba people is spoken principally in Nigeria and Benin with communities in other parts of Africa Europe and the Americas. A variety of the language Lucumi is the liturgical language of the Santería religion of the Caribbean.

ISO 639-1 code
yo
ISO 639-2 code
yor
ISO 639-3 code
yor
family
Atlantic–Congo languages, Volta–Niger languages, Yoruboid languages

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