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Language of a lad brought up outside Rugby (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yoruba

'language' is the definition.
(Yoruba is an example)

'a lad brought up outside rugby' is the wordplay.
'lad' becomes 'boy' (I've seen this before**).
'brought up' says the letters should be written in reverse (down clues only).
'outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'rugby' becomes 'ru'.
'a'+'boy'='aboy'
'aboy' reversed gives 'yoba'.
'yoba' going around 'ru' is 'YORUBA'.

'of' is the link.

(Other definitions for yoruba that I've seen before include "West African language" , "Africans" , "W African language" , "A Nigerian language" , "Language of West Africa" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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