Yobe language

{{Short description|Gur language spoken in Benin and Togo}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Miyobe

|altname=Soruba

|nativename=Miyobe

|states=Benin, Togo

|ethnicity=Biyobe

|speakers={{sigfig|21,900|2}}

|date=1991–2012

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=? Gur

|iso3=soy

|glotto=miyo1238

|glottorefname=Miyobe

}}

{{Infobox ethnonym|person=|people=piyobe|language=miyobe|country=|root=Rongier, Jacques. 1996. Aperçu sur le mɔyɔbɛ. Cahiers voltaïques / Gur papers 1: 115-145.}}

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.{{Cite book|title=The Languages and Linguistics of Africa|last=Güldemann|first=Tom|editor-last=Güldemann|editor-first=Tom|publisher=De Gruyter Mouton|chapter=Historical linguistics and genealogical language classification in Africa|year=2018|isbn=978-3-11-042606-9|doi=10.1515/9783110421668-002|location=Berlin|pages=58–444|series=The World of Linguistics series|volume=11}}