Language Info

Yoruba written in Latin script

Below you'll find all the characters used to write this language and all the countries where this language is used.

Standard Characters

The minimal characters required for this language

Auxiliary Characters

Additional letters (beyond the minimal set) used in foreign or technical words found in typical magazines, newspapers, etc..

Punctuation Characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning

Unicode Blocks

Yoruba uses characters from the following Unicode blocks

Countries

The worldwide literate language population for Yoruba is 25,521,759 people across 2 countries.

Nigeria

24,782,160 people
13.00% literate in Yoruba

Benin

739,599 people
6.70% literate in Yoruba

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places, and we want to give them credit here. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes that support the language.

  1. Unicode CLDR
  2. CLDR Exemplar Characters