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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.
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.
The Oduduwa script is also alphabetic, and is inspired by Latin orthography (e.g. /k͜p/ is written as a single letter, but /ɡ͜b/ as a digraph of the letters for /ɡ/ and /b/, paralleling the Nigerian Yoruba alphabet; similarly, the letters for ẹ, ọ, ṣ are derived from those for e, o, s , and nasal vowels are written with the letter for ...
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Much of the success of Oba Kò So was in part due to the uniqueness of his creative vision to merge a mythological and human form into the character of Sango, in which Ladipo played himself, as his embodiment of this Yoruba deity reflected a deep personal and cultural connection Ladipo had to the worship of Sango and Yoruba traditions in general.
In 2022, Sọ̀rọ̀sókè: an #EndSARS anthology was edited by Jumoke Verissimo and James Yeku, [3] and Soro Soke: The Young Disruptors Of An African MegaCity was authored by Trish Lorenz and published by Cambridge University Press, which sparked criticism when the author claimed to have invented the word Soro Soke.
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]
Adétòkunbọ̀ Listen ⓘ (Yoruba pronunciation: [ādétòkũ̄bɔ̀]) is both a surname and a given name of Yoruba origin meaning "the crown or royalty from across the seas (ocean)" or "the crown or royalty from a foreign land (abroad)".