Yoruba

Yoruba Languages from Molefo

Yoruba is one of the Niger-Congo languages spoken predominantly in the south western part of Nigeria, there are an estimated 70 million speakers in Nigeria alone and millions of speakers across the whole of West Africa, stretching from Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana, Liberia all the way down to parts of Senegal.

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Over 500 million people in North and South Americas and around the world identify with Yoruba ancestry. The Yoruba language is tonal, rich in poetry and malleable. The Yoruba concept of spirituality is an aspect that continues to intrigue many across the world. Though in modern times, many Yorubas practice either Islam or Christianity, they all, however, have a common denominator in the belief of Eledumare, the one God that empowers all others.

You will be amazed to discover words in many other languages are derived or have their origin in the Yoruba language.