Lucum language

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NativetoCuba

Native speakersNone[1]
(liturgical language)

Language familyNigerCongo AtlanticCongo VoltaNiger BenueCongo Yoruboid Edekiri Yoruba Lucum

Language codes

ISO 639-3luq

Glottologlucu1238[2]

Lucum is a Yoruba dialect and the liturgical language of Santera.[3] It is sometimes known as Yorb.[4]See alsoLucum people

Santera

Habla Congo, a similar liturgical language based on Kongo

References

Lucum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarstrm, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lucumi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

George Brandon. Santeria from Africa to the New World. Indiana University Press. p.56.

"Lucumi: A Language of Cuba (Ethnologue)". Retrieved 10 March 2010.