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==Facts about Yoruba == | ==Facts about Yoruba == | ||
*'''Language code (ISO 639-3)''': <code>yor</code> | *'''Language code (ISO 639-3)''': <code>yor</code> | ||
*'''Autonyms''' (''how to write "Yoruba" in Yoruba''): <code>Èdè Yorùbá / عِدعِ يوْرُبا</code> | |||
*'''Other names for "Yoruba"''': <code>Yariba, Yooba, Yorùbá, Èdè Yorùbá</code> | |||
*'''The Yoruba language is spoken in''': <code>Nigeria</code> | |||
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== | |||
<span class="jb">•</span> [https://www.yorubadictionary.com/ YorubaDictionary]: Yoruba-English dictionary, by Pamela Smith & Adebusola Onayemi | |||
<span class="jb">•</span> [https://www.freelang.net/online/yoruba.php Freelang]: Yoruba-English dictionary | |||
<span class="jb">•</span> [https://archive.org/details/DictionaryOfTheYorubaLanguage?view=theater Dictionary of the Yoruba language] (1910) | |||
<span class="jb">•</span> [https://books.google.com/books?id=9qETAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Vocabulary of the Yoruba language] by Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1852) | |||
<span class="jb">•</span> [https://books.google.com/books?id=NMINAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Vocabulary of the Yoruba language] (1843) | |||
<span class="jb">•</span> [https://books.google.com/books?id=v3pEAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Grammar and dictionary of the Yoruba language] by Thomas Bowen (1858) | |||
<span class="jb">•</span> [https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_60271_7/component/file_60272/content The body in Yoruba] <span class="k">[PDF]</span> by Mark Dingemanse (2006) | |||
<span class="jb">•</span> [http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol14num3/olateju.pdf The Yoruba animal metaphors] by Adesola Olateju, in ''Nordic journal of African studies'' (2005) | |||
<span class="jb">•</span> [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262637470_Yoruba_names_and_gender_marking Yoruba names and gender marking] by Olanikė Ola Orie, in ''Anthropological linguistics'' (2002) | |||
<span class="jb">•</span> [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262805020_Historical_changes_in_Yoruba_names Historical changes in Yoruba names] (2016) | |||
===Sources=== | |||
https://www.lexilogos.com/english/yoruba_dictionary.htm | |||
==Free Yoruba Lessons== | ==Free Yoruba Lessons== | ||
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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