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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]
Nevertheless, from a linguistic standpoint, both Itsekiri and standard Yoruba (based on the Oyo dialect) can be considered to represent two official variants of what is essentially the same language - one is a Southern Yoruba dialectal fusion of Ijebu, Ondo, Owo - spoken as a national language by over a million people and the other a fusion of ...
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.
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.
Guosa draws the bulk of its vocabulary from Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo, either taken directly or made from a combination of words from these languages. [2] English also provides many of the more technical terms, either directly or through one of the aforementioned African languages.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Yoruba on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Yoruba in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Below are some Olùkùmi words compared with the other Yoruboid languages Yorùbá (standard dialect), Òwé (a Yoruba dialect spoken in Kabba district of Kabba-Bunu LGA, Kogi State), and Igala, as given by Arokoyo (2012): [2]