Yoruba.Bible
About the Yoruba language
Yoruba, also known as Yariba or Yooba, is a language of Nigeria.
It has a widespread userbase of 20,000,000 in the southwestern regions where it is the De facto provincial language.
Dialects include Oyo, Ijesha, Ila, Ijebu, Ondo, Wo, Owe, Jumu, Iworro, Igbonna, Yagba, Gbedde, Egba, Akono, Aworo, Bunu (Bini), Ekiti, Ilaje, Ikale, Awori and Ào.
A variety of the language, Lucumi, is the liturgical language of the Santería religion of the Caribbean. Many Yoruba words are used in the Afro-Brazilian religion known as Candomblé. Yoruba is also used in many other Afro-American religions in the Americas and the Caribbean. Yoruba is most closely related to the Itsekiri language (spoken in the Niger Delta) and to Igala (spoken in central Nigeria)
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This project is aimed at making the Word of God available in local Nigerian Languages. Presently it costs us a minimum of N40m and an average of 12 years to complete translation project.
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Nigeria
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