Language/Yoruba

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Facts about Yoruba

• Language code (ISO 639-3): yor
• Autonyms (how to write "Yoruba" in Yoruba): Èdè Yorùbá / عِدعِ يوْرُبا
• Other names for "Yoruba": Yariba, Yooba, Yorùbá, Èdè Yorùbá
• The Yoruba language is spoken in: Nigeria

Yoruba is a language spoken in West Africa, most prominently Southwestern Nigeria. It is spoken by the ethnic Yoruba people. The number of Yoruba speakers is stated as roughly 50 million, plus about 2 million second-language speakers.

As a pluricentric language, it is primarily spoken in a dialectal area spanning Nigeria with smaller migrated communities in Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone and The Gambia.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_language

Yoruba Dictionaries

• YorubaDictionary: Yoruba-English dictionary, by Pamela Smith & Adebusola Onayemi

• Freelang: Yoruba-English dictionary

• Dictionary of the Yoruba language (1910)

• Vocabulary of the Yoruba language by Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1852)

• Vocabulary of the Yoruba language (1843)

• Grammar and dictionary of the Yoruba language by Thomas Bowen (1858)

• The body in Yoruba [PDF] by Mark Dingemanse (2006)

• The Yoruba animal metaphors by Adesola Olateju, in Nordic journal of African studies (2005)

• Yoruba names and gender marking by Olanikė Ola Orie, in Anthropological linguistics (2002)

• Historical changes in Yoruba names (2016)

Sources

https://www.lexilogos.com/english/yoruba_dictionary.htm

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