Locale Yo Ng

Reference data for the Yoruba (Nigeria) locale — endonym Yorùbá (Nàìjíríà), written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).

Identifiers

• BCP 47 tag: yo-NG
• ISO 639-1: yo
• ISO 639-3: yor
• Script: Latn (Latin)
• Region: NG (Nigeria)
• Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)

Speakers (approximate)

• L1 (native): 48,000,000
• L2 (additional): 2,000,000
• L1+L2 (total): 50,000,000

Base locale

This is a regional variant of Locale Yo 001 (Yoruba), the base/macro locale for this language.

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: other (1 form).

• other — everything else (e.g. 0~15, 100, 1000, 10000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Apply Locale Yo 001 with the conventions of Nigeria.

• Context: Yoruba is one of the major languages of Nigeria; English is the official language. Use the standard written form with full tone marks in teaching and formal text; in everyday commercial text, tone marks are sometimes omitted but subdots should stay.
• Formats: naira (₦); dates in English or Yoruba month names; 24-hour clock; decimal point.
• Tone: warm and respectful, with long greetings customary in correspondence.

Common pitfalls

• Dropping subdots.
• Using o forms with elders.
• The general pitfalls in Locale Yo 001 also apply.

Learn more

• Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
• Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
• Unicode CLDR locale data for number, date, and currency formats (https://cldr.unicode.org)