Yoruba Language

Niger-Congo language of roughly 50 million speakers in West Africa; tonal, with a standard form fixed by Samuel Crowther in the 1850s.

Specifications & Metrics

Yoruba has roughly 50 million speakers, including around 2 million second-language speakers.
Standard Yoruba originated in the 1850s, when Samuel A. Crowther published a Yoruba grammar and began translating the Bible.
It is a tonal language with three level tones, written in a Latin alphabet extended by the digraph gb and underdotted letters.