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Modupe Listen ⓘ is a Nigerian unisex given name of Yoruba origin which means "I give thanks". Forms of the name are Dupe, Modupeola, Modupeoreoluwa, and Modupeoluwa. Modupe is a unisex name but it is mostly given to female children. It originated from southwest Nigeria.
Yoruboid is a language family composed of the Igala group of dialects spoken in south central Nigeria, and the Edekiri languages subdivided into the Ede group (which includes Yoruba) spoken in a band across Togo, Ghana, Benin and southern Nigeria, and the Itsekiri group of the Warri Kingdom in the northwestern Niger-Delta.
The letter "l" is a link similar to "ti" meaning that or which. The word "ua" means community meeting place, normally at the palace when the Oba presides. The word "bi" means "born". Put together, Omo-l-ua-bi means a child born (nurtured / raised / trained) by the community. The only change being highlighted here is "ua" as a Yoruba word.
The Yoruba Names Project is set up to help document the Yoruba language first through all the names borne by its people, and later through an online dictionary.. It is part of a larger effort to help document the African cultural experience on the internet by making them easy to write and access via information technology.
Yoruba (US: / ˈ j ɔːr ə b ə /, [2] UK: / ˈ j ɒr ʊ b ə /; [3] Yor. Èdè Yorùbá) is a Niger-Congo language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in Southwestern and Central Nigeria, Benin, and parts of Togo.
There appears to be an obvious and strict rule of change from [F] in Yoruba and other Okun dialects to [H] in Oworo. Similar changes occur with several other vowels and consonants with lesser strictness. For example, the words funfun, ìfẹ́ and òsì meaning white, love and left are rendered hunhun, ìhẹ́ and òhì in Oworo respectively. [2]
The Nigerian Yoruba alphabet is made up of 25 letters, without C Q V X Z but with the additions of Ẹ, Ọ, Ṣ and Gb. [1] [2] However, many of the excluded consonants are present in several dialectal forms of Yoruba, including V, Z, and other digraphs (like ch, gh, and gw). Central Yoruba dialects also have 2 extra vowels that are allophones ...