According to the map, the most popular languages spoken there are Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo. Hausa is a member of the Afro-Asiatic language family and is particularly common in northern Nigeria ...

Yoruba is a tonal language, in which the meaning depends on the pitch of the syllables. It is spoken in countries in West Africa including Nigeria, Republic of Benin and parts of Togo, as well as ...

Yoruba,” which the census lists as a single language. Correction, May 13, 2014: This article originally misspelled Arapaho in the map of most commonly spoken Native American languages.

The Yorùbá case is no exception. Spoken widely by about 40 million speakers in Nigeria, Yorùbá language has been influenced by the English language spoken by the British, who held colonial power in ...