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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 The United States, Brazil and Cuba.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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An African traditional religion which spawned various offshoots in the Americas in the 15th to 19th centuries, including santería and Lucumí. (See Yoruba religion.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A member of 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, United States, Brazil and Cuba.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural
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noun
a Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba in southwestern Nigeria
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Aku
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Broader terms: Kwa
noun
a member of a West African people living chiefly in southwestern Nigeria
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Nigerian
History
Borrowed from Yoruba Yorùbá.
Across languages
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