• instantly Yorùbá. kasahorow Yoruba Dictionary Ọrọ èdè Yorùbá Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine lingua: Yoruba-Online-Dictionary English-Yoruba / Yoruba-English...
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    languages spoken in Nigeria. The official language and most widely spoken lingua franca is English, which was the language of Colonial Nigeria. Nigerian...
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  • The Yoruba Names Project is a documentation project set up to ensure the transfer of language and cultural resources of Yoruba language into a publicly...
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  • From 1400 onward, the Oyo Empire's imperial success made the Yoruba language a lingua franca almost to the shores of the Volta. Toward the end of the...
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  • This is a list of lingua francas. A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a first language...
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    Kola Tubosun (category English–Yoruba translators)
    Mother Tongue (Ostana Premio Scritture in Lingua Madre) for his work in language advocacy. He writes in Yoruba and English, and is currently the Africa...
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    Pombal prohibited the use of Língua Geral or any other indigenous language in Brazil. However, as late as the 1940s, Língua Geral was widely spoken in some...
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    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...
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    in the south; indigenous religions, such as those native to the Igbo and Yoruba ethnicities, are in the minority. Nigerians come from multiple ethnic, cultural...
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  • Abimbola Alao (category Yoruba women writers)
    (2005) Mantra Lingua. My Talking Dictionary & Interactive CD ROM Yoruba & English – Yoruba translation by Abimbola Alao. (2005) Mantra Lingua. "The university...
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  • Lucumí language (category Yoruba diaspora)
    Lucumí consists of a lexicon of words and short phrases derived from the Yoruba language and used for ritual purposes in Cuba and the Cuban Diaspora. It...
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    Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tetum, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, and Yorùbá. Lingua has content-sharing/partnerships (formal and informal) with news sites...
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    Vatapá (Yoruba: vata'pa, [vɐtɐˈpa]) is an Afro-Brazilian dish made from bread, shrimp, coconut milk, finely ground peanuts and palm oil mashed into a creamy...
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  • the late eighteenth century (when Yoruba people became the more common captives from the region). Etymology Yoruba language- Ata: ado: mi - Now the village...
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    in South Africa and Namibia (Afrikaans, English, German) and are used as lingua francas in Liberia and the former colonies of the United Kingdom (English)...
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    sounds, in his Ɛpistola del Trissino de le lettere nuωvamente aggiunte ne la lingua italiana ("Trissino's epistle about the letters recently added in the Italian...
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    of languages by total number of speakers at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Yoruba at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) "Most spoken languages in the World". The...
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  • Standard Yoruba has its origin in the 1850s, when Samuel A. Crowther, native Yoruba and the first African Anglican Bishop in Nigeria, published a Yoruba grammar...
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    Ogun State (category Articles containing Yoruba-language text)
    762 kilometer square. Ogun State is predominantly Yoruba, with the Yoruba language serving as the lingua franca of the state. The dominant religions in Ogun...
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  • Nigerian Pidgin (category Articles containing Yoruba-language text)
    or Naijá in scholarship, is an English-based creole language spoken as a lingua franca across Nigeria. The language is sometimes referred to as Pijin, Brokun...
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    Nigeria (category Articles containing Yoruba-language text)
    of cultures. The three largest ethnic groups are the Hausa in the north, Yoruba in the west, and Igbo in the east, together constituting over 60% of the...
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    ethnicities numerical superiority (as in the case of Nigeria's Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo peoples). A 2009 genetic clustering study, which genotyped 1327...
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     130. ISBN 9781598843637. "Bini – esd30plus". Retrieved 15 August 2022. "Yoruba leaders disagree over origin, meaning of their name". Vanguard News. 26...
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  • where Yoruba is the lingua franca. Yoruba replaces Akpes in more and more informal domains and thus forwards a gradual shift from Akpes towards Yoruba. Akpes...
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  • Sierra Leonean Creole or Krio is an English-based creole language that is lingua franca and de facto national language spoken throughout the West African...
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  • sobre a cooficialização da língua do "talian", à língua portuguesa, no município de Nova Roma do Sul" O Talian agora é a língua co-oficial de Nova Roma do...
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    Archived from the original on 2017-03-08. Retrieved 2017-03-07. "Dalla lingua Yoruba allo shar-chicham, nel borgo occitano di Ostana un festival per salvare...
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    found in southern Niger and northern Nigeria. The language is used as a lingua franca by non-native speakers in most of northern Nigeria, southern Niger...
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    World' with Liberated Africans – such as the Akan, Bakongo, Ewe, Igbo and Yoruba – over several generations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, led...
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    which is the case of okra). For the dish, the cuisine of Dahome Nagô, from Yoruba Nigeria, and indigenous from Bahia would have been combined. During his...
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