English
Alternative forms
Yorùbá
Proper noun
Yoruba
- A sub-w:Sahara|Saharan language. It belongs to the w:Benue-Congo|Benue-Congo branch of the w:Niger-Congo languages|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 centuries. These include Santeria and Lukumi. The religious aspect of Yoruba culture is otherwise known as Irunmole. It is characterised by a system of divination known as Ifa.
Translations
French: yoruba m
German: Yoruba
Portuguese: yoruba f, nago m (in Brazil)
Russian: йо��ба (jóruba) f
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Serbian: �о��ба (Joruba) f
Spanish: yoruba f, nago m (in Cuba)
Swedish: yoruba
Turkish: Yoruba
Yoruba: Yorùbá
See also
interwiktionary|code=yo
w:Yoruba language|Wikipedia article on Yoruba
External links
ethnologue|code=yor
Category:Languages
nl:Yoruba
sr:Yoruba
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