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    Noisette, Thierry (24 September 2010). "Wikipédia en français dépasse le million d'articles" [French Wikipedia exceeds one million articles]. ZDNet France...
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  • Yoruba (US: /ˈjɔːrəbə/, UK: /ˈjɒrʊbə/; Yor. Èdè Yorùbá, IPA: [jōrùbá]; Ajami: عِدعِ يوْرُبا) is a language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in...
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    Wikimedian of the Year (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    English articles into Yoruba, a language spoken in Nigeria. In 2013, Rémi Mathis of Wikimédia France and the French Wikipedia was named for his role...
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  • IV with Merceditas Valdés. Around 1997 Quinto left Yoruba Andabo to record his first solo album En el solar la cueva del humo and continued collaborating...
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    Yemọja (category CS1 Yoruba-language sources (yo))
    transliterations in other languages) is the major water spirit from the Yoruba religion. She is the mother of all Orishas. She is also the mother of humanity...
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    the family is the purple star apple (Chrysophyllum cainito). Amongst the Yoruba of Nigeria, it is called Agbalumo while it is called udala (udara) in the...
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    Babalú-Ayé (category Yoruba gods)
    Babalú-Aye (from Yoruba Obalúayé), Oluaye, Ṣọpọna, Ayé in Trinidad Orisha, or Obaluaiye, is one of the orishas or manifestations of the supreme creator...
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    the editions in Lombard, Cebuano, Volapük, and Yoruba. The existence of so many versions of Wikipedia constitutes an indubitable and exceptional proof...
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    with additional diacritics, for traditional religious publications in the Yoruba and Fon languages of Benin and southwestern Nigeria. The NKo script is written...
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  • USA, and Emeritus Professor of Physioth". ww.en.freejournal.org. Retrieved 2021-06-24. "Famous Yoruba People You Didn't know Were From Kogi State - Kogi...
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  • Nigerian Pidgin (category Articles containing Yoruba-language text)
    many speakers will utilize words from their native tongues. For example: Yorùbá ṣebi (pronounced 'sheh-be') is often used at the start or end of an intonated...
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    Sierra Leone Creole people (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    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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    Nicolas Grunitzky (category Yoruba royalty)
    was born in Atakpamé in 1913 to a German father and a Togolese mother (of Yoruba royalty). He studied civil engineering at the ESTP in Paris and was a public...
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  • Cowrie-shell divination (category Yoruba mythology)
    (from the Yoruba owó mẹ́rìndínlógún "sixteen cowries", literally "four taken from 20") is a cowrie-shell divination method practiced in the Yoruba religion...
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    Brigadier and Civil War commander) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Adekunle) Ogundare Foyanmu (a notable Yoruba Poet and Ijala Singer in Nigeria)...
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    ISBN 978-0-700-71134-5. Aubry, N.; Friedman, H.; Pozdniakov, K. (2004). "Proto-Yoruba-Igala Swadesh list" (PDF). Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique (LLACAN)...
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    Lagos (category Articles containing Yoruba-language text)
    Lagos (/ˈleɪɡɒs/ LAY-goss; also US: /ˈlɑːɡoʊs/ LAH-gohss; Yoruba: Èkó) or Lagos City is the most populous city in Nigeria, with an estimated population...
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    Nobility (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    particularly among the southern tribes, where such figures as the Ogboni of the Yoruba, the Nze na Ozo of the Igbo and the Ekpe of the Efik are some of the most...
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  • Grave accent (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    also used in other languages using the Latin alphabet, such as Mohawk and Yoruba, and with non-Latin writing systems such as the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets...
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    Names of God (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    supreme creator in the traditional religion of the Yoruba people is known as Olorun or Olodumare. The Yoruba believe that Olodumare is omnipotent and is the...
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    West Africa (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from January 2024)
    prominence around the 12th century. Further east, Oyo arose as the dominant Yoruba state and the Aro Confederacy as a dominant Igbo state in modern-day Nigeria...
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  • Imperial, royal and noble ranks (category Wikipedia list cleanup from March 2023)
    Obi and Igwe. Oba, the Yoruba word for King or Ruler of a kingdom or city-state. It is used across all the traditional Yoruba lands, as well as by the...
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  • TB Joshua (category Yoruba Christian clergy)
    by the Nigerian government in 2008 and being voted the Yoruba man of the decade by Pan-Yoruba media outlet Irohin-Odua. He was called one of Africa's...
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    Queen of Sheba (category Wikipedia articles needing romanization)
    earliest narrative articulation of Queen of Sheba in Jewish tradition. The Yoruba Ijebu clan of Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria, claim that she was a wealthy, childless...
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  • dataset (Sinhala) Amharic: Creole (Gulf of Guinea): Hausa: Igbo: Oromo: Yoruba: Zulu: Chinese/English Political Interpreting Corpus (CEPIC) consists of...
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    Hippopotamus (category Wikipedia pages semi-protected against vandalism)
    hippo in his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia (written circa 77 AD). The Yoruba people called the hippo erinmi, which means "elephant of the water". Some...
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  • Music of African heritage in Cuba (category Wikipedia articles needing clarification from April 2019)
    the most numerous group, with a huge influence on Cuban music. The Oyó or Yoruba from modern Nigeria, known in Cuba as Lucumí. Their religion is known as...
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    Tango (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from October 2022)
    theorized that the word derives from the Yoruba word shangó, which refers to Shango, the God of Thunder in traditional Yoruba religion. This theory suggests that...
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    Sacred language (category Wikipedia articles needing clarification from September 2018)
    Bhutan, the sacred language of Tibetan Buddhism. Yoruba (known as Lucumi in Cuba), the language of the Yoruba people, brought to the New World by African slaves...
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  • Tij Iginla (category Canadian people of Yoruba descent)
    U-17 Hockey Challenge, scoring two goals and seven points in seven games en route to a silver medal. Iginla is the son of Hockey Hall of Fame inductee...
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