Yoruba

See also yoruba, and Yorùbá

English

Alternative forms

• Yorùbá

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Yoruba

1. 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. 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.

Translations

a sub-Saharan language

• Armenian: յորուբա (hy) (yoruba)
• Catalan: ioruba (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 約魯巴語 (cmn), 约鲁巴语 (cmn) (Yāolǔbāyǔ or Yuēlǔbāyǔ)

• Finnish: joruba (fi)
• French: yoruba (fr) m
• Georgian: იორუბა (ka) (ioruba)
• German: Yoruba (de)

• Polish: joruba (pl)
• Portuguese: yoruba f, nago m (in Brazil), ioruba (pt) m, iorubá (pt) m, iorubano (pt) m
• Russian: йоруба (ru) (jorúba) m
• Spanish: yoruba f, nago m (in Cuba)
• Swahili: Kiyoruba (sw)
• Swedish: yoruba (sv)
• Turkish: Yoruba (tr)
• Yoruba: èdè Yorùbá (yo)

family of religions

• Finnish: joruba-uskonto (fi)

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Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: Јоруба (Joruba) f
• Yoruba: Yorùbá (yo)

See also

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia article on Yoruba

External links

• ISO 639-1 code yo, ISO 639-3 code yor
• Ethnologue entry for Yoruba, yo