What is Yoruba language?
{{Infobox language |name=Yoruba |nativename=Èdè Yorùbá |states= [[Nigeria]], [[Benin]], [[Togo]] |ethnicity=[[Yoruba people]] |speakers = {{sigfig|27.5|2}} million |date = 2007 |ref = ne2007 |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=[[Atlantic–Congo languages|Atlantic–Congo]] |fam3=[[Volta–Niger languages|Volta–Niger]] |fam4= [[YEAI|{{smallcaps all|YEAI}}]] |fam5=[[Yoruboid languages|Yoruboid]] |fam6=[[Edekiri languages|Edekiri]] |script=[[Latin script|Latin]] ([[Yoruba alphabet]])<br>[[Yoruba Braille]] |nation= {{flag|Nigeria}}<br>{{flag|Benin}}<br>{{flag|Togo}} |iso1=yo |iso2=yor |iso3=yor |lingua=98-AAA-a |notice=IPA |glotto=yoru1245 |glottorefname=Yoruba }} The '''Yoruba language''' is a [[Niger-Congo languages|Niger-Congo language]] spoken in [[West Africa]]. The number of speakers of Yoruba was thought to be 20 million in the 1990s. It is one of the languages in [[Nigeria]], [[Benin]], and [[Togo]] and in communities in other parts of [[Africa]], [[Europe]] and the [[Americas]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{InterWiki|code=yo}} {{authority control}} {{stub}} [[Category:Languages of Africa]] [[Category:Niger-Congo languages]]