YORUBA ALPHABET

 The Yoruba alphabet (Yoruba: Álífábẹ́ẹ̀tì Yorùbá) is a Latin alphabets used to write the Yoruba language. The Nigerian Yoruba alphabet is made up of 25 letters, without C Q V X Z but with the additions of Ẹ, Ọ, Ṣ and Gb. However, many of the excluded consonants are present in several dialectal forms of Yoruba, including V, Z, and other digraphs (like ch, gh, and gw). Central Yoruba dialects also have 2 extra vowels that are allophones of I and U. 

Learn how to pronounce the alphabets in yoruba



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