Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Yoruba is spoken as a first language by about 50 million people in West Africa, especially western Nigeria. Moreover, Yoruba is an official language of Nigeria, and is taught at primary and secondary schools - as well as universities. In this episode of this African Languages series, Yoruba is in the language spotlight. We’ll give you insight into the linguistic structures of it, how context influences this dialect, how it’s used in media, and how improvements to language technologies can benefit communities using Yoruba.

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro to Yoruba
1:50 - What is Yoruba’s language structure?
4:51 - How does context shape Yoruba?
5:53 - Is Yoruba used in films and music?
6:30 - Are there newspapers written in Yoruba?
7:34 - What languages would be useful to translate to and from Yoruba automatically?

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