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
Videos
YORUBA GREETINGS
GREETINGS FOR DIFFERENT TIMES IN YORUBA
Learn Yoruba Greetings
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
Free Yoruba Lessons
Language Exchange
Forum
Tools
Marketplace
Yoruba Online Virtual Keyboard
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Folktales — Proverbs — Beverages — Common Foods — Irregular Verbs — Regular Verbs — Traditional Dance — Traditional Music — Hobbies and Leisure Activities — Daily Routines — Modern Celebrations — Traditional Festivals — Shapes — Telling Time — Counting in Yoruba — Yoruba Food and Mealtime Etiquette — Yoruba Family Structure — Introducing Yourself and Others — Common Greetings — Basic Sentence Structure — Alphabets and Pronunciation — 0 to A1 Course — How to Use Be — How to say Good Bye? — Health — Give your Opinion — Express Surprise — Gender — Future Tense — Fruits