Ko Yoruba (Learn Yoruba)
Inspired by the Mental Acrobatics’s Christmas greetings in more 50 languages, I decided to introduce my local language, Yoruba. It is a beautiful language (I would say that).
From Wikipedia, Yoruba is a sub-Saharan language. It is the native tongue of the Yoruba people, and is spoken among other languages in Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Sierra Leone, as well as by small communities in Brazil (where it is known as Lukumi) and Cuba (where it is called Nago). It belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family, and has nearly 30 million speakers. Yoruba is a tonal language with subject-verb-object (SVO) syntax just like English and French.
Introduction
Brief Introduction to the Yoruba Culture
Background info Yoruba language.
Photo Essay on Yoruba - Quite a long article, scroll to the end to see the photos.
Learn
The alphabets in Yoruba.
Yoruba Fonts
Abeokuta’s Basic Introduction
The Yoruba Dictionary in Working progress
Internet Living Yoruba Dictionary - The project is based at the Center for Africana Studies at Georgia Southern University.
Learn Yoruba at Rutgers.
Music
Gbedu (gbedu means “music from radio or tape”)
Nigerian Music
Radio Abeokuta
Radio PalmWine
Comments (9)
Hi!
I am very interested in learning the Yoruba language. In searching for a website that can help me to learn I ran across your website.
I need to learn the languauge within the next 5 months, because I will be giving birth to a child of Nigeria & Latin descent. I would like to speak to my child in their native language.
Please help! If your have any information, it would be greatly appreciated.
hi
i am elize from the Netherland and i have a daugther who is 2 years now my man is nigerian (yoruba)he is talking yoruba with her and i’m realy trying to learn it good but i have some problems with finding good material to practis cane any one pleas help me so i cane talk yoruba to?
thxs verry mutch be blessed
I am of Yoruba decent!! I understand it a little bit, but to speak it is difficult. I would really like to learn the language before I go to Nigeria in the next few months. Can anyone help me discover how to do that?!!
i am half nigerain but i cant speak yoruba can u help me, i am only 13
Hi, I’m half Nigerian. Most of my family speaks Yoruba, but I don’t. I need to learn how to speak it for my own personal benefit because I think it’s a great language, and also to communicate better with my family. Would that be possible on this site?
I would love to get access to materials needed to learn yoruba language.I speak very little,but I am so eager to speak my mother tongue appreciably well
hey i wud so love 2 improve on my yoruba so i can speak it fluently..please help me i really need help i wud really appreciate it
thanx bye
both my parents speak yoruba and i am desperate to learn it too.
it would be useful for me to speak it when i go to nigeria, i want to learn it fast before i get even older and its harder to pick up
http://www.abeokuta.org/yoruba.htm
You can check out this website. It teaches you the basics of Yoruba
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