#langfocus

Yoruba (/ˈjɒrʊbə/; Yor. Èdè Yorùbá; Ajami: عِدعِ يوْرُبا) is a language spoken in West Africa, primarily in Southwestern and Central Nigeria. It is spoken by the ethnic Yoruba people. The number of Yoruba speakers is roughly 45 million, plus about 2 million second-language speakers. As a pluricentric language, it is primarily spoken in a dialectal area spanning Nigeria and Benin with smaller migrated communities in Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone and The Gambia.

OK, a little background here this dude, named Paul. He does videos breaking down the way different languages all over the world structure sentences and convey ideas. He’s done hundreds of videos at this point covering both well-known and lesser known languages all over the world.

I think it is so cool that he gave AAVE (a.k.a. Ebonics) the same grammatical explanation of how the mechanics of the dialect work with consistent rules across a variety of different sentences. I loved its explanation of how verb forms are consistent inside of a single tense but do change from one tense to another in a way that I might not have thought about.