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Yoruba is one of Africa's largest languages with over 40 million speakers. Most live in the southwest of Nigeria, where Yoruba Hausa and Igbo is one of the three major national languages. Yoruba is also widespread in Benin and Togo.
Through the transatlantic slave trade, Yoruba came to Brazil and Cuba, where language continues to live in religious traditions such as Candomblé and Santería. Anyone who learns Yoruba will discover West Africa and a piece of African-American history.

According to Yorùbá mythology, the supreme God sent Olúdùmarè his son Oduwa on earth to create land. The place where he arrived was Ile-Ife in today's Nigeriathe spiritual cradle of all Yorùbá. From this origin, language and culture spread across West Africa.

For a long time, Yoruba almost existed as a spoken language. There were some Records in Ajami, a written system that used Arabic letters for African languages, but a uniform spelling was missing.

In German, a question sounds different than a statement, but the word itself remains the same. Yoruba is different. Here decides the pitchwhat a word actually means. The same letters, the same sound, but another sound and it's a completely different word.

Tone	Marking	Example	Importance
High	Akut ( ́)	ọkọ	Hacks
Medium	no sign	ọkọ	Spouse
Low	Gravis (`)	ọkọ̀	Vehicle
Two deep tones	Gravis + Gravis	ọ̀kọ̀	Spear

Yoruba shares this principle with many other African languages. Also Ewe and Ga work with tones that carry meaning. Whoever learns one of these languages, trains his ear automatically for the others. The entry may be uninhabited, but the system is logical and repeated. For learners, this means: Vocabulary alone is not enough. Whoever speaks Yoruba must also be able to sing.

The Yoruba alphabet is based on Latin letters and includes 25 characters. The letters C, Q, V, X and Z do not come before. There are special features such as Vocals ẹ and ọ with lower point, which are formed deeper in the mouth. 

The grammar: Simple and logical

Function	Example	Local	Importance
Purpose	ó wọ ilé sùn	he entered house sleeping	He went to the house to sleep
Result	ó ga pin	he was listening	He stopped getting bigger
Procedure	Bọlá ra ẹran jẹ	Bola bought meat ate	Bola buys meat for food

The tonal structure of the Yoruba allows communication forms that go far beyond spoken language. One of them is the Pfeif language: voice over the sound melody of a sentence, without consonants or vocals to use. Only the pitches remain, and Yoruba spokesmen still understand the message. The proof that the meaning lies alone in the tone.

This musical character also shapes modern culture. Who hears Afrobeats or celebrates Detty December in Lagos or Accra, experiences Yoruba or. Twi in its most rhythmic form. In the anglophonic world these languages dominate pop music, similar to Lingala by Rumba and Soukous conquered the Francophone world. The connection of language and music is deeply rooted: whoever learns Yoruba gets access to one of the most lively music scenes in Africa. Yoruba and nigerian Pidgin also opens your way to Lagos fashion.