Yoruba Definition

yôrə-bə, yō-ro͝o-bä
yorubas
noun
A member of a people of SW Nigeria and neighboring regions.
Webster's New World
The language of this people, a tone language of the Niger-Congo subfamily.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • aku
adjective
Of the Yorubas or their language or culture.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A sub-Saharan language. It belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family, and has nearly 30 million speakers in Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Sierra Leone, as well as communities in Brazil and Cuba.

Wiktionary

An African traditional religion which spawned various offshoots in the Americas in the 15th to 19th centuries. These include Santeria and Lukumi. See Yoruba religion.

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Yoruba Sentence Examples

  • An official newspaper is published in the Yoruba and English languages.

  • Abeokuta is the headquarters of the Yoruba branch of the Church Missionary Society, and British and American missionaries have met with some success in their civilizing work.

  • Kreo is equally influenced by French, Portugese, Yoruba and other local languages.

  • Here he devoted himself to the preparation of school-books, and the translation of the Bible and Prayer-Book into Yoruba and other dialects.

  • See the publications of the Church Missionary Society dealing with the Yoruba Mission; Col.

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Words Starting With

YYOYOR

Words Ending With

ABAUBA

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With Y6 Letter Words Ending With A