Yoruba Sign Language (YSL) is an indigenous sign language of the deaf community in Yoruba-speaking communities of southwestern Nigeria. Fluent Yoruba...

perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through...

American Sign Language (ASL) developed in the United States, starting as a blend of local sign languages and French Sign Language (FSL). Local varieties...

School for the Deaf in 1974. Additionally, Yoruba Sign Language is an indigenous community sign language used in the deaf community of Akure. Deaf education...

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...

000 people, the other language was an indigenous language. Finally, the number of people reporting sign languages as the languages spoken at home was nearly...

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

indigenous languages such as Association of Teachers of Yoruba Language and Culture, Nigeria also known as Egbe Akomolede ati Asa Yoruba. Other associations...

ase, or ashe is a Yoruba philosophy that is defined to represent the power that makes things happen and produces change in the Yoruba religion. It is believed...

Mbelime, Nateni, Tammari, Waama, Waci-Gbe, Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official language is French) Albanian: Albania Kosovo (with Serbian) Montenegro...

suffix used for the names of enzymes Aṣẹ, a Yoruba philosophical and religious concept American Sign Language (ISO 639-3 code: ase) Åse (disambiguation)...

most commonly spoken native languages are Hausa (over 63 million when including second-language, or L2, speakers), Yoruba (over 47 million, including...

This is a timeline or chronology of Yoruba history. It contains notable or important cultural, historical and political events in Yorubaland, its constituent...

The Yoruba of West Africa (Benin, Nigeria and Togo) are responsible for a distinct artistic tradition in Africa, a tradition that remains vital and influential...

people out of 13.7 million (33.68%). Of the Beninese languages, Fon (a Gbe language) and Yoruba are the most important in the south of the country. In...

forms for each tense etc., similar to Latin. Standard Yoruba is the literary form of the Yoruba language of West Africa, the standard variety learnt at school...

is the Yoruba language name for the practice. In the Fon language it is called Fá, and among the Ewe and Mina languages it is Afa. The Yoruba system of...

Sami, as well as Romani, Finnish Sign Language, Finland-Swedish Sign Language and Karelian. Finnish is the language of the majority, 85.7% of the population...

except July, August and December. ASLPI American Sign Language Proficiency Interview SLPI Sign Language Proficiency Interview Official ACTFL Oral Proficiency...

humans convey meaning, both in spoken and signed forms, and may also be conveyed through writing. Human language is characterized by its cultural and historical...

The Oyo Empire was a Yoruba empire in West Africa. It was located in present-day western Nigeria (including the South West zone, Benin Republic, and the...

ethnic groups are the Hausas that are predominantly in the north, the Yorubas who predominate in the southwest, and the Igbos in the southeast. There...

Ekiti (Yoruba: Ìpínlẹ̀ Èkìtì) is a state in southwestern Nigeria, bordered to the North by Kwara State for 61 km, to the Northeast by Kogi State for 92...

Indo-European languages – 662,000 Yoruba, Twi, Igbo and other languages of West Africa – 640,000 Amharic, Somali, and other Afro-Asiatic languages – 596,000...

Ireland Yoruba – Èdè Yorùbá Official language in: the Federal Republic of Nigeria Yucatec Maya – mayaʼ tʼaan, maayaʼ tʼaan Official language in: Mexico...

Manding, Fulani and Yoruba, which are spoken as a second (or non-first) language by millions of people. Although many African languages are used on the radio...

Babalú-Aye (from Yoruba Obalúayé), Oluaye, Ṣọpọna, Ayé in Trinidad Orisha, or Obaluaiye, is one of the orishas or manifestations of the supreme creator...

to one count has 44 languages spoken. The official language is French. In 1975, the government designated two indigenous languages - Ewé (Ewe: Èʋegbe)...

Cowboys, and Virginia Destroyers. His name "Balogun" means "Warlord" in Yoruba. Balogun began at Lackawanna College in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He was a...