yoruba

IPA: jʌrˈubʌ

Root Word: Yoruba

(chiefly in the plural) A member of an ethnic group or tribe living mainly in southwest Nigeria, southern Benin, and eastern Togo and, as well as in communities elsewhere in West Africa, United States, Brazil and Cuba.
A sub-Saharan language. It belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family, and has nearly 40 million speakers in Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and Sierra Leone, as well as communities in The United States, Brazil and Cuba.
An African traditional religion which spawned various offshoots in the Americas in the 15th to 19th centuries, including santería and Lucumí. (See Yoruba religion.)

Examples of "yoruba" in Sentences

When it was time, we sang a little song to her in the yoruba language, Lucumí.
God punish am, hirriotfunky yoruba accent,lol I cannot stand men like dat, uggh!
May God provide you a good yoruba man after His heart according to His will for you
I do get embraced by some people especially when I speak in yoruba and they gleefully declare 'Tiwa ni'She's ours!
As a mixed race of the yoruba varietyI always tick the black british box myself but if asked, Id say I was nigerian.
And dude throws it down in anyway you want, barely speaks yoruba though but curses the hell out of you, dance and do everything Nigerian, yet he's called "Oyinbo" at school, strictly that!
Anyway, the history of Yoruba and the Binis has always being of a raconter of tales without affirmative, but one look more biblical than the other, in that the yoruba is a tribe that never extinct despite slavery and the taking to new world it is inspiring to note it lifly radiation of influence and richess that is the seven wonders of the Yoruba.