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How to pronounce yoruba in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms aku
Type of kwa
Type Words
Type of nigerian

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Yoruba written literature begins with the formation of its grammar published in 1843.
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Indigenous Obro tribesmen know it as yoruba and the Chitta call it hausa.
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Yoruba artists fed the people's spirits and kept channels to the capricious gods flowing.
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Yoruba language films happen to be the most watched in the cinemas, followed by Indian films.
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Yoruba music is prominent in the music of Nigeria and in Afro-Latin and Caribbean musical styles.
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Yoruba dancers and drummers, for instance, express communal desires, values, and collective creativity.
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Yoruba people are said to feel a deep sense of culture and tradition that unifies and helps identify them.
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Yoruba believe that a baby may come with pre-destined names.
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Yoruba city-states were usually governed by an oba and a iwarefa, a council of chiefs who advised the oba.
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  • A member of a West African people living chiefly in southwestern Nigeria
  • A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba in southwestern Nigeria
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  • 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; A family of religions, which spread to the Americas in the 15th to 19th ...
  • The people (and language) from Nigeria, and one of the most influential African cultures throughout the Caribbean.
  • An ethnic group from Nigeria who share a common culture and language
  • The main native language in the south-west of Nigeria. See also Hausa, Igbo/Ibo and Pidgin.
  • Most important art center in Nigeria.developed a series of important styles of sculpture in which the artists explored ways to represent realistic and idealized images of the human head and figure.
  • A native or oral tradition in Africa.