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Summary Of: Yoruba language
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Nigeria
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Benin
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Togo
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Ranking
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Language family
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Niger-Congo
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Atlantic-Congo
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Benue-Congo
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Yoruboid
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Edekiri
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Nigeria
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Regulated by
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ISO 639-1
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ISO 639-2
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ISO 639-3
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IPA
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Unicode
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dialect continuum
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Yoruba people
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Nigeria
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Benin
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Togo
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Brazil
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Sierra Leone
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Cuba
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isolating
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tonal language
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SVO
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Yoruboid
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Nigeria
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Benin
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Togo
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Ghana
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Yorubaland
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Ọyọ
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Ọṣun
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Ogun
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Ondo
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Ekiti
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Kwara
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Lagos
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Kogi
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Niger River
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Oduduwa
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Freetown
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Samuel Ajayi Crowther
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glottochronology
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Ọyọ
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unilineal
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agnatic
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Benin Empire
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cognatic
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Standard Yoruba
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Standard Yoruba
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calques
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CMS
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open
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Latin alphabet
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digraph
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diacritics
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underline
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International Phonetic Alphabet
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labial-velar
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stops
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open vowel
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root of the tongue retracted
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[ɛ̙]
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postalveolar consonant
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palatal approximant
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voiced palatal plosive
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nasal consonants
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acute accent
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grave accent
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macron
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caron
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tilde
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vowel
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Oral vowels
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Nasal vowels
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Front
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Back
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Close
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Close-mid
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Open-mid
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Open
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Labial
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Alveolar
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Postalveolar
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Palatal
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Velar
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Glottal
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Nasal
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Plosive
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Fricative
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Approximant
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Rhotic
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labial-velar
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stops
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phoneme
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allophone
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syllabic nasal
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syllable nucleus
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homorganic
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tonal language
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elision
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talk page
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requests for expansion
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isolating language
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SVO
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Serial verb constructions
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possessive
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Hausa
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Arabic
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Yoruba literature
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talk page
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requests for expansion
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Odu Ifa
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Oriki
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talk page
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requests for expansion
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Wole Soyinka
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Nobel Prize in Literature
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Daniel Olorunfemi Fagunwa
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Adebayo Faleti
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Akinwunmi Isola
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Wande Abimbola
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Afolabi Olabimtan
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not specified underlyingly
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downstep
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ISBN 0-8419-0031-0
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Ward, Ida
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Wikipedia
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Categories
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Yoruba language
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Languages of Benin
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Languages of Nigeria
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Languages of Togo
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Yoruboid languages
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Tonal languages
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