- Yoruba as been the first lanuage that was estimated has 20 million people worldwide
- 20 million people also choose yoruba as their second language.
- It was recognize as one of the six language in Nigeria. Yoruba population in the UK is included with the high number of students and professional who had left West Africa for political and economy reasons.
- 2000 research of London school kids speakes yoruba.
- Yoruba was reported has the ninth most common language spoken, with speakers spared across the capital.
- but with a huge focus in Greenwich, Hackney, Lambeth and Southwark.
- Yoruba is recognize as the number of kwa branch of the Niger congo family and is spoken by 17 million people in Nigeria, Benin and Togo.
- Yoruba speakers dominate about 21% of the population in Nigeria, majority who reside in Ibandan.
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