Language code: yo

Technical information about ISO 639 language code yo

Technical information about yo language code (Yoruba) is available below.

ISO code

yo

Language

Official

Yoruba

Native

Yorùbá

Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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Yoruba belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, more specifically to the Volta-Niger subgroup. It is one of the major languages spoken in Nigeria and is also spoken by minority communities in Benin and Togo. It is primarily written using the Latin script. It is estimated that there are around 45 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

236K

124K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Yoruba speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

yo-BJ Yoruba (Benin)

yo-NG Yoruba (Nigeria)

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