The Yoruba believe in the Creator who rules over the entire universe along with many other gods that serve underneath him. The Creator of the universe is called Olorun.

Yoruba is the first language for approximately 30 million West Africans, and is spoken by populations in Southwestern Nigeria, Togo, Benin and Sierra Leone.

Each of the Yoruba prepositions has a verbal homophone- ní ‘at’, sí ‘to’, fún ‘for’, pẹ̀lú ‘with’, and la ti ‘from’. The prepositions can be divided into three groups with respect to stranding.

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The worshipper makes a circle of ashes (Yoruba: eeru) or white chalk (Yoruba: efun); within the circle, which is a symbol of eternity, he pours a libation of cold water, and in the centre he …

Consonants never end a word in Yorùbá language. Two consonants are never written together in Yorùbá except in ‘gb’ which represents a letter of the alphabet or when a vowel has been …

When an object noun follows a verb in Yoruba, the two words are combined phonologically by deleting either the final vowel of the verb or the initial vowel of the object. Any High or Low …