Yoruba, Benin (Èdè Yorùbá)

Yoruba, Benin is written in the Latin script, spoken by about 200K people across 1 region.

Script

Language tag

yo-Latn

Speakers

200K

Status

Living

Sample text

Gbogbo

Bí ó ti jɛ́ kpé shíshe àkíyèsí iyì tó jɛ́ àbímɔ́

Bí ó ti jɛ́ kpé àìka àwɔn ɛ̀tɔ́ ɔmɔnìyàn sí àti ìkɛ́gàn àwɔn ɛ̀tɔ́ wɔ̀nyí

Alphabet (86)

Auxiliary characters (10)

cU+0063 CU+0043 qU+0071 QU+0051 vU+0076 VU+0056 xU+0078 XU+0058 zU+007A ZU+005A

Combining marks (4)

◌̀U+0300 ◌́U+0301 ◌̄U+0304 ◌̣U+0323

Punctuation (23)

-U+002D –U+2013 —U+2014 ,U+002C ;U+003B :U+003A !U+0021 ?U+003F .U+002E …U+2026 'U+0027 ‘U+2018 ’U+2019 "U+0022 “U+201C ”U+201D (U+0028 )U+0029 @U+0040 *U+002A /U+002F &U+0026 #U+0023

Unicode blocks used

C0 Controls and Basic Latin (Basic Latin)C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement (Latin-1 Supplement)Latin Extended-A Latin Extended-B IPA Extensions Combining Diacritical Marks Latin Extended Additional General Punctuation

Where it's spoken

Benin

Notes

Yoruba (Benin) uses ɛ ɔ kp sh instead of Yoruba (Nigeria) ẹ ọ p ṣ.

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