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Some Exonyms the Yoruba are known by across West Africa include; Alata in southern Ghana, [46] Eyagi in Nupe [47] [48] which produced descendant terms such as; Ayagi (the pre-modern Hausa word for the Yoruba people) [49] [50] and Iyaji in Igala. [51] The Yoruba people also refer to themselves by the epithet "Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire ...
Igala, living on the left bank of the Niger River below its junction with the Benue River. Their language belongs to the Benue–Congo branch of the Niger–Congo family. Their ruler, the Àtá, traditionally also governed two other groups, the Bassa Nge and the Bass Nkome, who live between the Igala and the Benue River.
Igala is a key Yoruboid language, spoken by 1.6 million people in the Niger-Benue confluence of central Nigeria; it is excised from the main body of Yoruboid languages to the west by Ebira and the northern Edoid languages. Igala is closely related to both Yoruba and Itsekiri languages.
The word anẹ̀ Igala means Igalaland is regarded to be the territory where the people are speaking the Igala language. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The early settlement in the Igala kingdom were founded by the ancestors of the people now known as the Igala-Mela with traditions that means "the nine Igala".
Because it has developed in the relative isolation of the Niger-Delta away from the main body of Yoruba dialects and from Igala - Itsekiri like most languages (that develop away from the main family body e.g. Icelandic) has preserved many of the original/archaic features of the original proto-Yoruba-Igala language and in particular the old ...
In his Arabic-English Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Quran and Sunnah, Yoruba Muslim scholar Abu-Abdullah Adelabu argued Islam has enriched African languages by providing them with technical and cultural augmentations with Swahili and Somali in East Africa and Turanci Hausa and Wolof in West Africa being the primary beneficiaries.
The Yoruba people believe that people live out the meanings of their names. As such, Yoruba people put considerable effort into naming a baby. Their philosophy of naming is conveyed in a common adage, ile ni a n wo, ki a to so omo l'oruko ("one pays attention to the family before naming a child"): one must consider the tradition and history of ...
For example, the words funfun, ìfẹ́ and òsì meaning white, love and left are rendered hunhun, ìhẹ́ and òhì in Oworo respectively. [2] Due to the geographical location of the Oworo people, the Oworo dialect has been influenced by Nupe, Igala, Hausa and other neighboring languages. The influence of Nupe seems to be the greatest and ...