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Literary Yoruba, also known as Standard Yoruba, Yoruba koiné, and common Yoruba, is a separate member of the dialect cluster. It is the written form of the language, the standard variety learned at school, and that is spoken by newsreaders on the radio.
English: a copy of the English teachers' guide translated into Yoruba language for the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Program in Kwara State, Nigeria 2022. Date 6 July 2022
The Oduduwa script was created in 2016 or 2017 by a Beninese Yoruba chief named Tolúlàṣẹ Ògúntósìn for the Yoruba language of Nigeria and Benin. Ògúntósìn says that the script was revealed to him by the Yoruba mythic ancestor Oduduwa in a series of dreams from 2011 to 2016. [1]
Yoruba copper mask for King Obalufon, Ife, Nigeria c. 1300 CE. The Yoruba are said to be prolific sculptors, [6] famous for their terra cotta works throughout the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries; artists have also made artwork out of bronze. [7] Esiẹ Museum is a museum in Esiẹ; [8] a neighbouring town to Oro in Irepodun, Kwara.
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Yoruboid is a language family composed of the Igala group of dialects spoken in south central Nigeria, and the Edekiri languages subdivided into the Ede group (which includes Yoruba) spoken in a band across Togo, Ghana, Benin and southern Nigeria, and the Itsekiri group of the Warri Kingdom in the northwestern Niger-Delta.
Anjẹmi or Yoruba Ajami (أَنْجَِمِ ) refers to the tradition and practice of writing the Yoruba language using the Arabic script, as part of the tradition among Muslims of West Africa at large, referred to as the Ajami script. These include the orthography of various Fula dialects, Hausa, Wolof, and more.
The Yoruba alphabet (Yoruba: Álífábẹ́ẹ̀tì Yorùbá) is either of two Latin alphabets used to write the Yoruba language, one in Nigeria and one in neighboring Benin. The Nigerian Yoruba alphabet is made up of 25 letters, without C Q V X Z but with the additions of Ẹ , Ọ , Ṣ and Gb .