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The Yoruba language is spoken by as many as 30 million people, predominantly in the West African nations of Nigeria and Benin, and in the diaspora worldwide.
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More from Wikipedia: "Yoruba (Yor. Èdè Yorùbá) is a language spoken in West Africa and most prominently Southwestern Nigeria. Spoken by the ethnic Yoruba people, The number of speakers of Yoruba is estimated at between 45 and 55 million. As a pluricentric language, it is spoken in a wide dialectal area spanning Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, with communities in Sierra Leone and Liberia as well as smaller pockets in other parts of West Africa. Yoruba vocabulary is used in the Afro-Brazilian religion known as Candomblé, in the Caribbean religion of Santería in the form of the liturgical Lucumí language and various Afro-American religions of North America. As the principal Yoruboid language, Yoruba is most closely related to the languages Itsekiri (spoken in the Niger Delta) and Igala (spoken in central Nigeria)., Nigerian Pidgin is an English-based creole language spoken as a lingua franca across Nigeria. The language is sometimes referred to as ""Pijin"" or Broken (pronounced 'Brokun'). It can be spoken as a pidgin, a creole, slang, or a decreolized acrolect by different speakers, who may switch between these forms depending on the social setting. A common orthography has been developed for Pidgin which has been gaining significant popularity in giving the language a harmonized writing system. Variations of what this article refers to as 'Nigerian Pidgin' are also spoken across West and Central Africa, in countries such as Benin, Ghana, and Cameroon. As an example, the English phrase, 'how are you?' would be 'how you dey?' in Pidgin."
This video was recorded by Emilio Rosas Guitiérrez in Dilijan, Armenia, where he and Bisola study. The speaker(s) featured herein have not explicitly agreed to distribute this video for reuse. For inquiries on licensing this video, please contact hello@wikitongues.org.
The Yoruba language is spoken by as many as 30 million people, predominantly in the West African nations of Nigeria and Benin, and in the diaspora worldwide.
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More from Wikipedia: "Yoruba (Yor. Èdè Yorùbá) is a language spoken in West Africa and most prominently Southwestern Nigeria. Spoken by the ethnic Yoruba people, The number of speakers of Yoruba is estimated at between 45 and 55 million. As a pluricentric language, it is spoken in a wide dialectal area spanning Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, with communities in Sierra Leone and Liberia as well as smaller pockets in other parts of West Africa. Yoruba vocabulary is used in the Afro-Brazilian religion known as Candomblé, in the Caribbean religion of Santería in the form of the liturgical Lucumí language and various Afro-American religions of North America. As the principal Yoruboid language, Yoruba is most closely related to the languages Itsekiri (spoken in the Niger Delta) and Igala (spoken in central Nigeria)., Nigerian Pidgin is an English-based creole language spoken as a lingua franca across Nigeria. The language is sometimes referred to as ""Pijin"" or Broken (pronounced 'Brokun'). It can be spoken as a pidgin, a creole, slang, or a decreolized acrolect by different speakers, who may switch between these forms depending on the social setting. A common orthography has been developed for Pidgin which has been gaining significant popularity in giving the language a harmonized writing system. Variations of what this article refers to as 'Nigerian Pidgin' are also spoken across West and Central Africa, in countries such as Benin, Ghana, and Cameroon. As an example, the English phrase, 'how are you?' would be 'how you dey?' in Pidgin."
This video was recorded by Emilio Rosas Guitiérrez in Dilijan, Armenia, where he and Bisola study. The speaker(s) featured herein have not explicitly agreed to distribute this video for reuse. For inquiries on licensing this video, please contact hello@wikitongues.org.
