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- Yoruba (yor)

Yoruba is spoken in West Africa, primarily in Southwestern and Central Nigeria. The number of Yoruba speakers is roughly 50 million, plus about 5 million second-language speakers. It is primarily spoken in a dialectal area spanning Nigeria, Benin, and Togo with smaller migrated communities in Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone and The Gambia. The largest concentration is in Nigeria where more than 500 languages are spoken. Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba speakers make up the majority. English is the official Language.

Yoruba vocabulary is also used in the Afro-Brazilian religion known as Candomblé, in the Caribbean religion of Santería in the form of the liturgical Lucumí language and various Afro-American religions of North America. Practitioners of these religions in the Americas no longer speak or understand the Yorùbá language, rather they use remnants of Yorùbá language for singing songs that for them are shrouded in mystery. Usage of a lexicon of Yorùbá words and short phrases during ritual is also common, but they have gone through changes due to the fact that Yorùbá is no longer a vernacular for them and fluency is not required.

Speakers of Yoruba are mostly Christian (60%) with the remaining adhering to Islam.

Nigeria's economy is the largest in Africa, the 31st-largest in the world by nominal GDP, and 30th-largest by PPP. It is less than South Africa, Egypt or Morocco, but a little more than Ghana or Ivory Coast. Nigeria has a lower-middle-income economy, with an abundant supply of natural resources. Its wide array of underexploited mineral resources include coal, bauxite, tantalite, gold, tin, iron ore, limestone, niobium, lead and zinc. Despite huge deposits of these natural resources, the mining industry in Nigeria is still in its infancy.

In 2021, about 23.4% of Nigeria's GDP is contributed by agriculture, forestery and fishing combined. As far as cassava is concerned, Nigeria is the world's largest producer. Further major crops include maize, rice, millet, yam beans, and guinea corn (sorghum). Cocoa is the principal agricultural export, and one the country's most significant non-petroleum products. Nigeria is also one of the world's top twenty exporters of natural rubber, generating $20.9 million in 2019.

Sources: Wikipedia
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