Yoruba
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- noun
- /jəˈruːbə/
- That's how you say good morning in Yoruba.
- speak Yoruba
- Yoruba people
- translated from Yoruba
Examples
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These universities at the time offered bachelor's degrees in Yoruba within the Institutes of African Studies.
Academic text (1995) -
Cloth plays an important role in the world of the Yoruba.
Academic text (1995) -
While the texts are often in English, they are just as often in Yoruba.
Academic text (2008) -
Antibalas sing in three languages: English, Yoruba, and Spanish.
Academic text (2014) -
Shango priests and cult members played a part in the development and spread of the Oyo Empire, which controlled trade routes and a large percentage of the Yoruba-speaking peoples in West Africa.
Academic text (1998) -
In addition, both civilizations developed graphic signs well before Western contact: aroko and odu Ifa among the Yoruba, bidimbu in Kongo.
Academic text (1996) -
The research on which this paper is based was undertaken in the course of thirteen months, from January 1964 to January 1965, during which I continued ethnographical survey work in the Yoruba-speaking region, following on from Kenneth Murray and Philip Allison.
Academic text (1994) -
Given the diversity of beliefs and practices among the various names, is it not surprising that connections to Yoruba ritual practice vary from community to community? Among some followers of Candomblé, Yoruba is spoken as a liturgical language, for example, but this is certainly not universal.
Academic text (2009) -
With samba music kicking in and the chorus singing her name in Yoruba, Mami Wata appeared wearing the hottest, newest cloth in Ouidah with de Souza's image all over it.
Academic text (1999) -
In southwestern Nigeria, many people communicate fluently in Yoruba during daily conversations.
Synonyms
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A language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria and nearby countries
Compounds
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A language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria and nearby countries
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yoruba is also the name the people use for their own language, and that same name was brought into English by early visitors and writers. So Yoruba now means the Niger-Congo language spoken mainly in southwestern Nigeria.