| Language name: | YORUBA |
| UPSID number: | 4137 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Niger-Kordofanian, Kwa |
| This language has | 29 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.447664195 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | t k kp b d g gb dZ f h s S m n r[ l j w i e E a O o u i~ E~ O~ u~ |
| Comment: | Yoruba has three level tones. A limited vowel harmony system operates, banning co-occurrence of higher-mid with lower-mid vowels. /n/ can be treated in most cases as the allophone of /l/ before a nasalized vowel. |
| Source(s): | Bamgbose, A. 1966. A grammar of Yoruba. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. |