Yoruba (native name èdè Yorùbá, 'the Yoruba language') is a
dialect continuum of West Africa with over 22 million speakers. The native tongue of the
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), 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.
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