• Yoruba Sign Language (YSL) is an indigenous sign language of the deaf community in Yoruba-speaking communities of southwestern Nigeria. Fluent Yoruba...
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  • perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through...
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    American Sign Language (ASL) developed in the United States, starting as a blend of local sign languages and French Sign Language (FSL). Local varieties...
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  • Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official language is French) Akan (Akuapem Twi, Asante Twi, Fante): Ghana (a government-sponsored language along with Ewe-Gbe...
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  • A Yorùbá name is a name that is part of a naming tradition that is primarily used by the Yoruba people and Yoruba language–speaking individuals in Benin...
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  • Yoruba Americans (Yoruba: Àwọn ọmọ Yorùbá Amẹrika) are Americans of Yoruba descent. The Yoruba people are a West African ethnic group that predominantly...
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  • republic of Nigeria. In the Yoruba language, the word 'oba' means ruler or king. It is also common for the rulers of the various Yoruba domains to have their...
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    The major native languages, in terms of population, are Hausa (over 63 million when including second-language, or L2, speakers), Yoruba (over 47 million...
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    people out of 13.7 million (33.68%). Of the Beninese languages, Fon (a Gbe language) and Yoruba are the most important in the south of the country. In...
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  • and Turpan dialects continue to be spoken. Standard Yoruba is the literary form of the Yoruba language of West Africa, the standard variety learnt at school...
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