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Yorùbá is a sub- Saharan language. It is the native tongue of the Yorùbá people, and is spoken among other languages in Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Sierra Leone, as well as by communities in Brazil and Cuba (where it is called Nago). It belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family, and has nearly 30 million speakers. Yorùbá is an isolating, tonal language with SVO syntax.Yorùbá has proven to be fruitful from a linguistic point of view: its vowel harmony system, its extensive morphophonologyMorphophonology or Morphonology is a branch of linguistics which studies: The phonological structure of morphemes. The combinatory phonic modifications of morphemes which happen when they are combined The alternation series which serve a morphological fun, its tonology and its numerous reduplicative processesReduplication is the process of repeating a word or part of it to express some grammatical function, plurality for example. It is used in some language families' grammar, most notably in Malayo-Polynesian where it forms plurals: Bahasa Malay rumah house, are well documented and continue to be the subject of linguistic analysis.
1 Yorùbá Alphabet
- A B D E Ẹ F G GB H I J K L M N O Ọ P R S Ṣ T U W Y
2 External link
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Languages of Benin
Languages of Nigeria
Languages of Sierra Leone
Languages of Togo
Niger-Congo languages
Tonal languages
Whistled languages
