The name of a family of Yoruba talking drums from Nigeria whose pitch can be regulated to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech. The largest one is called Iya Ilu, which mean mother drum. The dundun is played with a curved stick and sometime the fingers of the opposite hand. The wooden shell is hourglass-shaped with thongs connecting the two skins. The drummer can press the thongs close to the shell to increases the pressure on the skin, changing the pitch of the drum.

Dundun talking drums should not be confused with the dunun family of Mandé drums which are sometimes credited as dundun.