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ˈyɔr ə bə, ˈyoʊr-yoru·ba

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Yorubanoun

    a member of a West African people living chiefly in southwestern Nigeria

  2. Yoruba, Akunoun

    a Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba in southwestern Nigeria

Wiktionary

  1. Yorubanoun

    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.

  2. Yorubanoun

    A family of religions, which spread to the Americas in the 15th to 19th centuries. These include Santeria and Lukumi. See .

Wikipedia

  1. Yoruba

    The Yoruba people (Yoruba: Ìran Yorùbá, Ọmọ Odùduwà, Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire) are a West African ethnic group that mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. The areas of these countries primarily inhabited by the Yoruba are often collectively referred to as Yorubaland. The Yoruba constitute more than 50 million people in Africa, are over a million outside the continent, and bear further representation among members of the African diaspora. The vast majority of the Yoruba population is today within the country of Nigeria, where they make up 21% of the country's population according to CIA estimations, making them one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa. Most Yoruba people speak the Yoruba language, which is the Niger-Congo language with the largest number of native or L1 speakers.In Africa, the Yoruba are contiguous with the Yoruboid Itsekiri to the south-east in the northwest Niger Delta, Bariba to the northwest in Benin and Nigeria, the Nupe to the north, and the Ebira to the northeast in central Nigeria. To the east are the Edo, Ẹsan, and Afemai groups in mid-western Nigeria. To the northeast and adjacent to the Ebira and northern Edo, groups are the related Igala people on the left bank of the Niger River. To the south are the Gbe-speaking Mahi, Gun, Fon, and Ewe who border Yoruba communities in Benin and Togo, to the west they are bordered by the Kwa-speaking Akebu, Kposo of Togo, and to the northwest, by the Kwa-speaking Anii, and the Gur speaking Kabiye, Yom-Lokpa and Tem people of Togo. Significantly Yoruba populations in other West African countries can also be found in Ghana, Benin, Ivory Coast, and Sierra Leone.Outside Africa, the Yoruba diaspora consists of two main groupings; the first being that of the Yorubas taken as slaves to the New World between the 16th to 19th centuries, notably to the Caribbean (especially in Cuba) and Brazil, and the second consisting of a wave of relatively recent migrants, the majority of whom began to migrate to the United Kingdom and the United States following some of the major economic and political changes encountered in Africa in the 1960s to 1980s.

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  1. yoruba

    The Yoruba are an ethnic group of southwestern and north-central Nigeria, as well as southern and central Benin. They are identified by their shared language, Yoruba, and comprise over 40 million people, making them one of the largest African ethnic groups south of the Sahara Desert. Yoruba culture is noted for its rich mythology, art, music, dance, and philosophy, much of which has been influential on black cultures across the globe.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of yoruba in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of yoruba in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of yoruba in a Sentence

  1. Mujahid Dokubo-Asari:

    The bigger tribes ... feel they have the divine right to rule others, then one man from a tiny community in Ijaw comes. He's not Yoruba, Igbo, or Hausa. They can't bear it.

  2. Mujahid Dokubo-Asari:

    Then one man from a tiny community in Ijaw comes. He's not Yoruba, Igbo, or Hausa. They can't bear it, he who pays the piper must dictate the tune, and the delta has been paying the piper for so very long. If they make war, we can make war. We have the capacity to take what's ours.

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  • jawi_o
    Ya ra ba is Yoruba, meaning, hasten to catch up with.
    Yoruba are the most sophisticated and advanced society with an administrative governance from hence come modern democracy.
    The Yoruba administration system is democratic from the days of the Alaafin.
    Ogboni are the jurisprudence jury and the Oro as police who enforce laws and orders. 
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