Yobe language

Miyobe
Soruba
Miyobe
Native toBenin, Togo
EthnicityBiyobe
Native speakers
(22,000 cited 1991–2012)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3soy
Glottologmiyo1238
ELPMiyobe
[2]
Peoplepiyobe
Languagemiyobe

Miyobe or Soruba is an unclassified Niger-Congo language of Benin and Togo.

Güldemann (2018) notes that Miyobe cannot be securely classified within Gur, and leaves it out as unclassified within Niger-Congo. Unlike the Gur languages, which are SVO, Miyobe has SOV word order like the Senufo, Mande, and Dogon languages.[3]

  1. ^ Miyobe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Rongier, Jacques. 1996. Aperçu sur le mɔyɔbɛ. Cahiers voltaïques / Gur papers 1: 115-145.
  3. ^ Güldemann, Tom (2018). "Historical linguistics and genealogical language classification in Africa". In Güldemann, Tom (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of Africa. The World of Linguistics series. Vol. 11. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 58–444. doi:10.1515/9783110421668-002. ISBN 978-3-11-042606-9.