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Yoruba language
Yoruba (;〔Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student’s Handbook'', Edinburgh〕 Yor. ') is a language spoken in West Africa mainly in Nigeria.
The number of speakers of Yoruba is approaching 30 million.〔〔''Metzler Lexikon Sprache'' (4th ed. 2010) estimates roughly 30 million based on earlier estimates and population growth figures〕 It is a pluricentric language 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. Yoruba is most closely related to the Itsekiri language (spoken in the Niger Delta) and to Igala (spoken in central Nigeria).
== History ==
Yoruba is classified within the Edekiri languages, which together with Itsekiri and the isolate Igala form the Yoruboid group of languages within the Volta-Niger branch of the Niger-Congo family.
The linguistic unity of the Niger-Congo family dates to deep prehistory, estimates ranging around 15 kya (the end of the Upper Paleolithic).〔Bernd Heine, Derek Nurse (eds.), ''African Languages: An Introduction'', Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 9780521666299, (p. 294 )〕 In present-day Nigeria, it is estimated that there are over 40 million Yoruba primary and secondary language speakers and several other millions of speakers outside Nigeria making it the most widely spoken African language outside Africa.
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