can be classified into five major dialect areas: Northwest, Northeast, Central, Southwest, and Southeast. Clear boundaries cannot be drawn, but peripheral areas of dialectal regions often have some similarities to adjoining dialects.

North-West Yoruba (NWY)

North-West Yoruba was historically spoken in the Oyo Empire. In NWY dialects, Proto-Yoruba velar fricative and labialized voiced velar /gw/ have merged into /w/; the upper vowels /I/ and /?/ were raised and merged with /i/ and /u/, just

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