Yoruba
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
- An ethnic group or tribe living mainly in southwest Nigeria, southern Benin, and eastern Togo and, as well as in communities elsewhere in West Africa, and in Brazil and Cuba.
- A sub-Saharan language. It belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family, and has nearly 40 million speakers in Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Sierra Leone, as well as communities in Brazil and Cuba.
- An African traditional religion which spawned various offshoots in the Americas in the 15th to 19th centuries. These include santería and Lucumí. See Yoruba religion.
- French: yoruba
- German: Yoruba
- Portuguese: yoruba, ioruba, iorubá, iorubano, nagô (Brazil)
- Russian: йо́ру́ба
- Spanish: yoruba, (in Cuba) nago
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