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Yoruba Transcript: Dictionary

Author : Deji Olaiya

Publisher : Independently Published

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 11,46 MB

Release : 2019-03-20

Category : Education

ISBN : 9781091090828

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Book Description

What is Yoruba Transcript? Simply put, the digital way to write in Yoruba, that is, without accents.In the 18th century, Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther's quest to translate the Holy Bible into Yoruba led to the creation of an orthography for Yoruba language. This thereafter resulted in the publication of the first Yoruba dictionary. Bishop Crowther found out during his compilation that some Yoruba phonetics were not represented by Latin alphabets, so he introduced tonal accents, which didn't make the language reader friendly. Transcript replaces accents with conventional alphabets to make Yoruba language conform to international standards. This has made Yoruba more reader friendly, more writer friendly and this has now given rise to Yoruba language 'renaissance'.A Sample Yoruba Proverb Adaba ough naanint ivell, Papar injonon, Eyyel okoul folaut. Also Included in the book is 15,000 words Dictionary of Yoruba Language and hundreds of Yoruba proverbs and niches.



English-Yoruba, Yoruba-English Modern Practical Dictionary

Author : Kayode J. Fakinlede

Publisher :

Page : 702 pages

File Size : 10,73 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN :

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Yoruba is spoken by some 20 million people. One of the national languages of Nigeria it is also spoken in other neighbouring African nations. This bilingual dictionary includes terms that cover the complex medical, scientific and mathematical terms used throughout the world today.





A Dictionary of the Yoruba Language

Author : Nigeria University Press

Publisher : African Books Collective

Page : 484 pages

File Size : 40,9 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN :

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Based upon the nineteenth century standard work on the Yoruba language, and first ever English-Yoruba, Yoruba-English dictionary, this new edition has been revised and enlarged considerably. The dictionary contains about 50,000 references and translations; Yoruba pronunciation guidance; examples of how words are used; contemporary meanings and interpretations; and reference to grammatical usage and parts of speech. There is also an extensive list of commonly occurring birds, plants and trees, translated from Yoruba into English alongside their botanical equivalents.





Speak Yoruba in 24 Hours

Author : Adedamola Olofa

Publisher : Independently Published

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 49,2 MB

Release : 2004-10-05

Category :

ISBN : 9781973551690

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This Yoruba grammar book is for the use of beginners who want to learn Yoruba and those who want to speak it as a second language (L2). Target Users are: ■ Those who marry to Yoruba spouses ■ Yoruba children born abroad ■ Yorubas in diaspora ■ Secondary school children (Nigeria, West Africa and Brazil) learning Yoruba as a second language. ■ Non-Yoruba university students learning Yoruba as a second language. ■ Those who have interest in speaking the language.It is written in a Teach-Yourself format. It is highly interractive. A reader studies a lesson and tests himself through series of "Brainwork" provided in this book. Because it is a book meant for beginners, some basic grammatical rules and orthography are adjusted to make learning easier for users. This book is to be viewed as an introductory to learning Yoruba.





The Yoruba

Author : Akinwumi Ogundiran

Publisher : Indiana University Press

Page : 374 pages

File Size : 25,84 MB

Release : 2020-11-03

Category : History

ISBN : 0253051525

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The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups on the African continent. Weaving together archaeology with linguistics, environmental science with oral traditions, and material culture with mythology, Ogundiran examines the local, regional, and even global dimensions of Yoruba history. The Yoruba: A New History offers an intriguing cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and social history from ca. 300 BC to 1840. It accounts for the events, peoples, and practices, as well as the theories of knowledge, ways of being, and social valuations that shaped the Yoruba experience at different junctures of time. The result is a new framework for understanding the Yoruba past and present.





Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa

Author : Sergio Baldi

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 455 pages

File Size : 41,59 MB

Release : 2020-11-30

Category : Reference

ISBN : 9004438483

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Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa analyzes around 3000 Arabic loanwords in more than 50 languages in the area, and completes the work started in a previous similar work on West Africa.