Yoruba Greeting and Custom

In the world today Yoruba is among the first Tribe that has respect and good characters and attitude
Yoruba ladies are the one of best for home material


Yoruba has the highest chracters fellow by India and other Asia Continents

Eg
If someone use at least 1 day to senior you in Age in yoruba tribe you must call Him or She Uncle or Aunty

Eg Uncle Sam correct
Eg Sam Not correct

If a Yoruba man wanted to greet his Father or Mother or any elderly person in the family you must remove your cap and Positrate on the floor

If a Yoruba lady wanted to greet his Father or Mother or any elderly person in the family she must Knee Down on the floor

And if Yoruba woman want to give his husband something she much blend down or knee down

As a Yorubas if you notice someone senior you,you must not be the first to ask for hand shake

Yoruba are one of the first who has meaning for everything of nature and names and translation of Oracle,

Yoruba believe much in proverb and they are like camelon,genius sometimes they play a game like green snake under the grass..

Yoruba believe much in ORACLE words...that is the reason Yoruba Tribe cannot just give someone a name without reason...the name must have a reason

Learn Yoruba

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Yoruba Alphabet

The Yorùbá Alphabet

A B D E E̩ F G GB H I J K L M N O O̩ P R S S̩ T U W Y

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An Example of the Yorùbá Language

Ò̩nà tí o ro̩rùn latifi kó̩ pípe ò̩rò̩ pè̩lú àwo̩n àmì yìí ni tí a báfí wé dídún-un mé̩ta nínú àwo̩n ohún tí a ńfi dùrù tàbí pianó tè̩. Àwo̩n ohùn nàá ni

dò rē mí.

Akì í sábà fi àmi àárín (-) sori ò̩rò̩ àfi lé̩è̩kò̩ò̩kan lórí i n̄ tabi m̄.

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Translation: The easy way to learn how to pronounce words with these accent marks is to compare them with three of the tones played on the organ or piano. These are:

do re mi

The middle tone mark is rarely placed on letters of the alphabet except occasionally on n and m.

Yoruba Name and meaning

Common Yoruba Names
damilola
yinka
bose
bosede

gbenga
kolawole
kolade
kole
bimbo
muyiwa
Kola
Seun
tosin
fadeke
folake
sewa
Tola
Bunmi
Segun
Tope
Ola
Tunji
Kemi
Biola
Bola
Bimbo
Toyin
Akin
Ade
tunde
Ikudasi
Sango
Oya
Ibijola
Mayokun
Funmilayo
Funmilola
Babatunde
Idowu
taiye
kehide
Alaba
Idowu
Idogbe
Abeni
Akande
Akani
Adebayo
Adekola
Kolade
Kole
owolabi
lolade
eluwole
Ogun
Obafemi
Wole
soyinka
Dele
Ayo
Wale
Tobi
keke
bolale

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Yoruba Dictionary

Yoruba Dictionary is the first Dictionary in Africa get translated from English to Yoruba and others Yoruba words and meaning

Yoruba Bible

Yoruba Bible happen to be this first bible in Africa to get translated from English to Yoruba by Samuel Ajayi

Yoruba Foods

Yoruba are the right owner of those food below
AKARA,
AMALA,
EGUSI,
EWEDU
EFO
ERU
OLE
MoinMoin
Eba,
ikokore
Eko
Iyan
Gari
ओगी
कोकोरो
अदलु
http://www.motherlandnigeria.com/food.हटमल
चेक मोरे online

Most of this food are well know Gambia,FreeTown,Benin,Barbados,Bahamas

Yoruba Tribe in Ghana,Freetown,Liberia

Some tribe speak little of Yoruba in Ghana,Freetown,Liberia

Yoruba in Gambia

Some of Gambia tribe speak little of Yoruba and bears some of Yoruba names,Yoruba Love Gambia so much,the tribe that speak Yoruba in Gambia called Aku...


Yoruba didnt only cant themselves as a tribe in Gambia,Yoruba believe we all Africa are from one source..


Yoruba in Gambia make sure to abide with Gambia Rules,Yoruba in Gambia make sure they look forward to Gambia Industrial,School,Law,Business,and religious Activities..

Yoruba Count Gambia, Togo, Bahamas,Barbados,Freetown,..
Yoruba spread Good names to all country name Above

Most Yoruba are very careful when its comes to protect their name
Most Yoruba dont like looking for money from any source without reason the result
Most Yoruba like studying
Most Yoruba like womanizing
Most Yoruba are kind,Honest,
Most Yoruba mind their business
Most Yoruba are too proud
Most Yoruba find it difficult to help their fellows Yoruba in others nations
Yoruba brought brightness to All African nation

Yoruba Information

Who are the Yoruba?

The first obvious answer to this question is the Yoruba are a nationality, numbering about 40 million, the majority of whom live in the South Western part of the state of Nigeria in West Africa,The Gambia, freetown,Kotonu. Obvious as this answer is, it is not wholly explanatory, and certainly, it is not without its own controversy. First, regarding its explanatory status. One has to add, that the Yoruba are people that speak a common language, Yoruba, which belongs to the Kwa group of the Niger-Congo linguistic family, and it has about 12 dialects

Yoruba Information

Location:	Southwestern Nigeria, Bénin
Population:	10 million
Language:	Yoruba (Kwa)
Neighboring Peoples:	Fon, Igbo, Igala, Idoma
Types of Art:	The arts of the Yoruba are as numerous as their deities, and many objects are placed on shrines to honor the gods and the ancestors. Beautiful sculpture abounds in wood and brass and the occasional terracotta. Varied masking traditions have resulted in a great diversity of mask forms. Additional important arts include pottery, weaving, beadworking and metalsmithing.
History:	The oral history of the Yoruba describes an origin myth, which tells of God lowering a chain at Ile-Ife, down which came Oduduwa, the ancestor of all people, bringing with him a cock, some earth, and a palm kernel. The earth was thrown into the water, the cocked scratched it to become land, and the kernel grew into a tree with sixteen limbs, representing the original sixteen kingdoms. The empire of Oyo arose at the end of the 15th century aided by Portuguese guns. Expansion of the kingdom is associated with the acquisition of the horse. At the end of the 18th century civil war broke out at Oyo, the rebels called for assistance to the Fulani, but the latter ended up conquering all of Oyo by the 1830s. The Fulani invasion pushed many Yoruba to the south where the towns of Ibadan and Abeokuta were founded. In the late 1880s, with the help of a British mediator, a treaty was signed between the various warring factions. Yorubaland was officially colonized by the British in 1901, but a system of indirect rule was established that mimicked the structure of Yoruba governance.
Economy:	Historically, the Yoruba were primarily farmers, growing cocoa and yams as cash crops. These are planted in a three-year rotational system, alternating with cassava and a year of diverse crops including maize, peanuts, cotton, and beans. At the end of this three-year cycle the land is left fallow, sometimes for seven years. It is estimated that at one time nearly 70 percent of people participated in agriculture and ten percent each working as crafts people and traders within the towns. Yorubaland is characterized by numerous densely populated urban centers with surrounding fields for farming. The centralization of wealth within cities allowed for the development of a complex market economy which encouraged extensive patronage of the arts.
Political Systems:	The political and social systems vary greatly in different regions, and allegiance is uniformly paid to the large urban center in the area, rather than to a singular centralized authority. Each town has a leader (Oba), who may achieve his position in several different ways including inheritance, gaining the position through participation in title associations, or being personally selected by an Oba already in power. Every Oba, however, is considered to be a direct descendant of the founding Oba in each city. A council of chiefs usually assists the Oba in his decisions. Title associations, such as the ogboni, play an important role in assigning and balancing power within the cities.
Religion:	The Yoruba claim that they have 401 deities; in truth, there are more than these. The complexity of their cosmology has led Western scholars to compare them to the Ancient Greeks and their impressive pantheon. Yoruba deities are known as orisha, and the high god is Olorun. No organized priesthoods or shrines exist in honor of Olorun, but his spirit is invoked to ask for blessings and to confer thanks. The Yoruba believe that when they die they enter the realm of the ancestors where they still have influence on earth. Annual homage is paid to the grave sites of ones' forbears, and lineage heads are responsible for honoring all deceased members of the lineage through a yearly sacrifice. Maskers (egungun) appear at funerals and are believed to embody the spirit of the deceased person. Other important orishas include Eshu, the trickster; Shango, the god of thunder; and Ogun, the god of iron and modern technology.