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Yoruba alphabet and characters
The Yoruba alphabet should display only the following characters. If your document is not showing correctly, then first check that the encoding for that program and font supports Africa’s languages.
Lower-case characters:
Upper-case characters:
Yoruba grammar rules
Yoruba is an isolating language, i.e. it has a very low morpheme per word ratio.
Nouns
Although Yoruba has no grammatical gender, it does have a distinction between human and non-human nouns. There are no definite and indefinite articles. Nouns are not inflected for number. Plural is indicated with a plural word or a pronoun placed before the noun.
Verbs
Yaruba formatting rules
Date formats
| First day of the week | Saturday |
| Working days | Saturday–Thursday |
| Short date format | dd/MM/yyyy |
| e.g. 17/08/2016 | |
| Long date format | d MMMM yyyy |
| e.g. 2011 اوت 15 |
Numbers and measurements
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