Yoruba · Yorùbá
Hub 8 verified age-safe resources . A short orientation plus a verified resource table — not a generated essay.
About Yoruba
- Language family
- Niger-Congo, Volta-Niger branch
- Where it's spoken
- Southwestern Nigeria, Benin, Togo
- Speakers
- roughly 45 million speakers
Yoruba is a tonal language with a centuries-deep oral literature of proverbs, praise poetry, and the Ifá divination corpus, a body of verse historically transmitted by trained specialists. The Atlantic slave trade carried Yoruba speakers and religious vocabulary to the Americas, where it shaped Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Brazilian traditions such as Santería and Candomblé that still use Yoruba-derived terms today. It belongs to the Niger-Congo family, one of the world's largest, alongside Igbo and hundreds of other West and Central African languages.
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Forvo Yoruba pronunciation dictionary
Native-speaker word pronunciations, searchable.
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reference | A1-C2 | freemium | 2026-07-22 |
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Omniglot: Yoruba writing & pronunciation
Script and orthography orientation with sample text.
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reference | A1-B1 | free | 2026-07-22 |