Yoruba (US: /ˈjɔːrəbə/, UK: /ˈjɒrʊbə/; Yor. Èdè Yorùbá, IPA: [jōrùbá]) is a language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in Southwestern and Central...

Most Yoruba people speak the Yoruba language, which is the Niger-Congo language with the largest number of native or L1 speakers. In Africa, the Yoruba are...

Look up Yoruba in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Yoruba may refer to: Yoruba people, an ethnic group of West Africa Yoruba language, a West African...

The Yoruba alphabet (Yoruba: Álífábẹ́ẹ̀tì Yorùbá) is either of two Latin alphabets used to write the Yoruba language, one in Nigeria and one in neighboring...

The Yoruba religion (Yoruba: Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), West African Orisa (Òrìṣà), or Isese (Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts and practice...

the Yoruba language and used for ritual purposes in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and their Diasporas. It is used as the liturgical language of...

and Turpan dialects continue to be spoken. Standard Yoruba is the literary form of the Yoruba language of West Africa, the standard variety learnt at school...

The Yoruba are most likely the most well-known West African ethnic group in the world due to their vast population in West Africa and broad dispersion...

sovereign nations that the Yoruba inhabit. Yoruba people traditionally speak the Yorùbá language, a member of the Niger–Congo language family. Apart from referring...

presence of such phrases in West African languages such as bam-bam, which means "complete" in the Yoruba language. Repetitious phrases are also present in...

republic of Nigeria. In the Yoruba language, the word 'oba' means ruler or king. It is also common for the rulers of the various Yoruba domains to have their...

Yorùbá names are the given names adopted primarily by speakers of the Yoruba language and the Yoruba diaspora. Originally, male Yorùbá children were named...

contains a single morpheme. Examples of widely spoken isolating languages are Yoruba in West Africa and Vietnamese (especially its colloquial register)...

Yoruba Americans (Yoruba: Àwọn ọmọ Yorùbá Amẹrika) are Americans of Yoruba descent. The Yoruba people are a West African ethnic group that predominantly...

Yorubaland (Yoruba: Ilẹ̀ Káàárọ̀-Oòjíire) is the homeland and cultural region of the Yoruba people in West Africa. It spans the modern-day countries of...

Nigeria and the rest of Africa. The Yoruba language is spoken in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, as well as in dispersed Yoruba communities throughout the world...

may be considered official variants of the same language. Although Itsekiri and the South Eastern Yoruba dialects are mutually intelligible to varying degrees...

Americas and pressure on Yoruba speakers to adapt or assimilate. In the Caribbean, in particular, Yoruba culture, religion, and language have co-evolved with...

every child is born into a patrilineal clan called idile baba in Yoruba language. The clan share clan names (orile), poetry (oriki), taboos (eewo) and...

is हिरवा hiravā. In Bengali, blue is নীল nīl and green is সবুজ sabuj. In Yoruba, there are only three fundamental terms for colors, one of them, the word...

An IETF BCP 47 language tag is a standardized code that is used to identify human languages on the Internet. The tag structure has been standardized by...

BBC Yoruba is the Yoruba language service of the BBC World Service meant primarily for the Yoruba-speaking communities in Nigeria, Benin Republic, Togo...

Dictionary Of The Yoruba Language: English-Yoruba, Yoruba-English (1913). Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-104-17000-4. Part II Yoruba-English Page 2, "Abẹ̀rẹ̀...

Yoruba cuisine is the numerous and diverse foods of the Yoruba people of Yorubaland (Yoruba native regions of Nigeria). Some notable Yoruba food include;...

Oba means "ruler" in the Yoruba language. Kings in Yorubaland, a region which is in the modern republics of Benin, Nigeria and Togo, make use of it as...

Oduduwa was a Yoruba divine king, legendary founder of the Ife Empire and a creator deity (orisha) in the Yoruba religion. His earthly origins are from...

Anjẹmi or Yoruba Ajami (أَنْجَِمِ‎) refers to the tradition and practice of writing the Yoruba language using the Arabic script, as part of the tradition...

Yoruba clothing is the traditional clothing worn by people of the Yoruba ethnic group in parts of Nigeria, Benin and Togo in a region called Yorubaland...

The major native languages, in terms of population, are Hausa (over 63 million when including second-language, or L2, speakers), Yoruba (over 47 million...

Japa (/jɑːkpə/) is a Yoruba language word used as a Nigerian slang term that has gained widespread usage among Nigerian youths. The term is used to describe...