Yoruba (native name ede Yorùbá, 'the Yoruba language') is a dialect continuum of West Africa with over 22 million speakers. The native tongue of the Yoruba people, it is spoken, among other languages, in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo and traces of it are found among communities in Brazil and Cuba (where it is called Nago). Yoruba is an isolating, tonal language with SVO syntax. Apart from referring to the aggregate of dialects and their speakers, the term Yoruba is used for the standard, written form of the language. Yoruba is classified as a Niger-Congo language of the Yoruboid branch of Defoid, Benue-Congo.
Yoruba language. (2006, September 21). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:05, October 5, 2006, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yoruba_language&oldid=76893755
Yoruba
Windows
Keyboard prepared with Microsoft's Keyboard Layout Creator (http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx). See attached for downloadable installer.
Ubuntu Linux
There is no support for Nigerian language input methods in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) or older versions. These instructions are a workaround. Try it if you are confident of your ability to recover your system if you accidentally wreck it.
How to Install Keyboard
- BACKUP /etc/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml AND /etc/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst
- Download the keyboard layout map file from below if you haven't done so already.
- Acquire root priviledges. # su
- Copy the layout file to where it's expected to be. # cp ng /etc/X11/xkb/symbols
- Edit /etc/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst with your favourite text editor and insert the following line to the layout section
Resources
Here you will find technical resources for African languages.
