Digg
Reddit

Your Answer…

You asked:

facts about Yoruba

Yoruba

Yoruba

Yoruba

Yoruba (the language spoken by the Yoruba in southwestern Nigeria)

language, concept with variable precision, tongue, Niger-Congo language, spoken language, Volta-Congo language, shared group behaviour, living language, sacred language
ISO 2-letter code, Iso Code
"yo"
ISO 3-letter code, ISO 639-3 Code, ISO 639-2b Code
"yor"
Language family
Niger-Congo language, Volta-Congo language
Spoken in, Official Language of
Nigeria
Wikipedia Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_language, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba
Used in
Journey to the End of the Night, Workingman's Death
Class
▶
language, tongue, Niger-Congo language, spoken language, living language,  …
Spoken Language of
Nigerian British
Recorded As Spoken In
Africa
Wordnet Synset ID
"106997368"
Examples
Hafsat Abiola
Freebase ID
"/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000001f756d"
Related Websites
▶
http://www.yorubanation.org, http://yoruba.ru, http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Yoruba, http://media.revver.com/broadcast/28158/video.mov, http://www.yorubadictionary.com,  …
DBPedia URI
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Yoruba_language, http://dbpedia.org/resource/Yoruba
OpenCyc ID
"Mx4rvVjA-pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA"
Rare Terms
▶
"ìgbómìnà", "yorubu", "yoruboid", "yorubaphone", "yoruba speakers",  …
Orthography
latin alphabet
Freebase Primary MID
"/m/01zycf"
Edit this profile
Tell me what you know about Yoruba, the spoken human language.
Report Abuse
Rate this answer:
Vote
or Vote
Analyse this question
Answering questions based on 635,025,637 facts on 27,916,369 things

Recent Questions:

Sponsored Links:

Questions like yours:

Answers from our users:

We have no user supplied answers for this question yet.
Be the first to contribute one here

The best answers stand alone—make sense without the question being present—and are high quality English.


Submit Answer

External web pages (using standard web search):

Yoruba - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education
Yoruba - (yō´rbä), people of SW Nigeria and Benin, numbering about 20 million. Today many of the large cities in Nigeria (including Lagos, Ibadan, and Abeokuta) are in ...
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Yoruba
Yoruba Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...
Yoruba , people of SW Nigeria and Benin, numbering about 20 million. Today many of the large cities in Nigeria (including Lagos , Ibadan , and ...
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Yoruba.aspx
Yoruba people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The North-West Yoruba dialects, for example, show more linguistic innovations. According to some, this, combined with the fact that Southeast and Central Yoruba areas generally ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_people
Yoruba - Language Information & Resources
He also translated the Bible into Yoruba in 1884, a landmark event in Yoruba’s written development due to the fact that Crowther produced a translation using a Latin alphabet ...
http://www.alsintl.com/resources/languages/Yoruba/
Yoruba
Native Onitshans speak a dialect of the Igbo language with several Benin/Yoruba words such as "Obi" (of Onitsha) and "Oba" (of Benin). In fact, the word Onitsha (Onicha) is a ...
http://www.emeagwali.com/photos/yoruba/photo-essay-on-yoruba.html

Other questions about this:

tk10publ tk10canl

Other ways this question is asked:

  • aku
  • what is yoruba
  • [yoruba]
  • yoruba
  • what is yoruba language
  • yoruba facts
  • ede yoruba
  • about youruba

Add our Knowledge to your App

Developers: Connect your program to True Knowledge.

Use it to solve problems or add content to a site or bring Q&A to your app.

Free trial.