Etymology
As an ethnic description, the word
"Yoruba" was first recorded in reference to the Oyo Empire in a treatise written by the 16th-century Songhai scholar Ahmed
Baba. It was popularized by Hausa usage and ethnography written in Arabic and Ajami during the 19th century, in origin referring to the Oyo exclusively.
The extension of the term to all speakers of dialects related to the language of the Oyo (in modern terminology North-West Yoruba) dates to the second half of the
19th century. It is due to the influence of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the first Anglican bishop in Nigeria. Crowther was himself a
Yoruba and compiled the first Yoruba dictionary as well as introducing a standard for Yoruba orthography.
The alternative name Akú, apparently an exonym derived from the first words of Yoruba greetings (such as Ẹ kú àárọ?
"good morning", Ẹ kú alẹ? "good
evening" has survived in certain parts of their diaspora as a self-descriptive, especially in Sierra Leone

People love mythologies

2. We had our own mythology, our own gods and goddesses to protect us
a) akin to the Greeks, we had our own mythology

https://www.pinterest.com/cosmiqueen/yoruba-orishas/

madamoringo:
Some chest beaters from the Beastafar regions will commit suicide because of these news!

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Why should I?

Its good news and it calls for celebration.

But most of you go along thinking we have time to hate on other people's successes.

All the average Igbo man knows is to mind his own business,so don't go thinking we're having heart attacks simply because people want to reconnect with their places of origin. Be mature ma'am.


My 2 kobo.

Nna mehn ndi Yoruba sabi how to be ugly o
Kai
I hope they won't pick teachers from Ogun state

The aircraft may not handle this

We had feared empires

babyosisi:

Couldn't agree more
Especially Ekiti Sophisticated pippu

You are bigger than this na. Let

babyosisi:

Couldn't agree more
Especially Ekiti Sophisticated pippu

You are bigger than this na. Let yoruba people celebrate.

Ilekeh:
We had feared empires

And feared faces to match
Hahahahaha

ireneidiva:

You are bigger than this na. Let

When she starts faking her "this is great! congrats Nigeria" B.S.

It's easy to force her to show her true pain

babyosisi:
Nna mehn ndi Yoruba sabi how to be ugly o
Kai
I hope they won't pick teachers from Ogun state

The aircraft may not handle this

This is just too childish of you. We are all Nigerians first before being igbo or yoruba. No tribe is superior. So please grow up.

Ilekeh:

Sounds shallow and bitter. "Descendant of slaves". How many Igbo descendants of slaves want Igbo speakers sent to their country? Yoruba people never forget their identity no matter where they go.

I hate the way this topic is going....
What's the big deal?

Yoruba people in Brazil want yoruba teachers over there.
That's good news,but not a reason to start insulting an entire race.

Nobody insulted Yorubas this time. Y'all started it!

Athanatos:
I hate the way this topic is going....

What's the big deal?


Yoruba people in Brazil want yoruba teachers over there.

That's good news,but not a reason to start insulting an entire race.


Nobody insulted Yorubas this time. Y'all started it!

So you saw it?
I for say

We had the artwork

We have several Museums dedicated to the Yoruba culture, artwork, and tradition

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/artists/520/Yoruba

http://africa.uima.uiowa.edu/peoples/show/Yoruba

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/science/microsites/museum-loan-network/museum-loan-network-grant-collections/museum-loan-network-2

http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/category/keywords/yoruba

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_owoyoruba.htm

Ilekeh:




Go and learn it nau

come teach me abeg.

Languages with this level of importance are easily grasped when taught by the opposite sex in a serene environment and on a nice bed.

Mapletraks:
@Op

That is Great!

Bahia in Brazil was the major point in Brazil
where thousands of Yoruba captives from Nigeria and Yorubas in Benin Republic landed.

Some returned to Nigeria after the slave trade ended and many became very wealthy.

The Alakija family came back from Brazil. Candido DaRocha was of Ijesa ancestry whose father also came back from Bahia in Brazil. Candido DaRocha built the Water House on Kakawa st. Lagos Island with another exact replica built by him in Bahia, Brazil in the late 1800s[DaRocha was a very rich man and he was the father of the founder of ADRAO International School, VI].

Yet some people will still argue blindly that Lagos is a no mans land( an empty vast of land the Britons discovered).

babyosisi:


And feared faces to match Hahahahaha

Nne,wetuo obi.
I understand the way you feel,but this is not the best way to reply,believe me.

Biko rapu ewu na ata igu ka o talu igu gaba.

Athanatos:
I hate the way this topic is going....

What's the big deal?


Yoruba people in Brazil want yoruba teachers over there.

That's good news,but not a reason to start insulting an entire race.


Nobody insulted Yorubas this time. Y'all started it!

Anything Yoruba insults that entire race (Igbo).

Pretending to be satisfied with Yoruba progress is temporary.

And this is progress....any unification of Yorubas from different corners of the earth is progress.

Yorubas need to bank on it.

oodua agbewa o,a see

TheOtherview:


Embrace your shadow, mate. Don't deny the your true identity as an unabashed bigot.

You obviously think that I'm that jobless for ethnic bashing though in politics section any thing could be used to bash

Oya continue waiting for me.

Olodo.

Truckpusher:
come teach me abeg.

Languages with this level of importance are easily grasped when taught by the opposite sex in a serene environment and on a nice bed.

Yimu. Ask babyosisi to help you. She's been learning Yoruba in that environment

jasper83:




Yet some people will still argue blindly that Lagos is a no mans land( an empty vast of land the Britons discovered).

Grow up.

khalleb:
YORUBA
The most selling Nigeria language outside Nigeria

But their faces don't quite sell as well they have scary features.Just in physical attractiveness Yorubas fall far behind Igbos,Hausas ,Fulanis,Knuris and Ijaws.

Ilekeh:


Yimu. Ask babyosisi to help you. She's been learning Yoruba in that environment

I could even start a mini Yoruba town in Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic etc.

Jeeezzzzzz money!

Ooni visits Republic of Benin

http://ihuanedo.ning.com/m/discussion?id=2971192%3ATopic%3A4843

Tourism in Yorubaland is enough to generate revenue equivalent to Oil (or close)

Everybody is infatuated with the Yoruba language. Second to Swahili.

Yoruba language
The Yoruba culture was originally an oral
tradition, and the majority of Yoruba
people are native speakers of the Yoruba
language. The number of speakers is
roughly estimated at about 30 million in
2010.
Yoruba is classified within the Edekiri languages, which together with the isolate Igala, form the Yoruboid group of languages within the Volta-Niger branch
of the Niger-Congo family. Igala and Yoruba have important historical and cultural relationships. The languages of
the two ethnic groups bear such a close resemblance that researchers such as Forde (1951) and Westermann and Bryan (1952) regarded Igala as a dialect of Yoruba.
The Yoruboid languages are assumed to
have developed out of an undifferentiated Volta-Niger group by the 1st millennium
BCE. There are three major dialect areas:
Northwest, Central, and Southeast. As the North-West Yoruba dialects show more linguistic innovation, combined with the fact that Southeast and Central Yoruba
areas generally have older settlements, suggests a later date of immigration for Northwest Yoruba.
The area where North-West Yoruba (NWY) is spoken corresponds to the historical
Oyo Empire.
South-East Yoruba (SEY) was
probably associated with the expansion of the Benin Empire after c. 1450.
Central Yoruba forms a transitional area in that the lexicon has much in common
with NWY, whereas it shares many ethnographical features with SEY. Literary Yoruba, the standard variety learnt at school and spoken by newsreaders on the radio, has its origin in the Yoruba grammar compiled in the
1850s by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther.
Though for a large part based on the Oyo and Ibadan dialects, it incorporates several features from other dialects.
History
History of the Yoruba people are from Ife
Yoruba mythology
As of the 7th century BCE the African peoples who lived in Yorubaland, were not initially known as the Yoruba, although they shared a common ethnicity
and language group. The historical
Yoruba develop in situ, out of earlier Mesolithic Volta-Niger populations, by the 1st millennium BCE.Oral history recorded under the Oyo Empire derives the Yoruba as an ethnic group from the population of
the older kingdom of Ile-Ife.
Archaeologically, the settlement at Ifeshows features of urbanism in the 12th - 14th century era. In the period around 1300 C.E. the artists at Ife developed arefined and naturalistic sculptural tradition in terracotta, stone and copper alloy - copper, brass, and bronze many of which appear to have been created under the patronage of King Obalufon II, the man who today is identified as the Yoruba patron deity of brass casting,
weaving and regalia.The dynasty of kings at Ife, which regarded the Yoruba as the place of origin of human civilization, remains intact to this day. The urban phase of Ife before the rise of Oyo, c. 1100–1600, a significant peak of
political centralization in the 12th century) is commonly described as a "golden age" of Ife. The oba or ruler of Ife is referred to as the Ooni of Ife. Ife continues to be seen as the "spiritual homeland" of the Yoruba. The city was
surpassed by the Oyo Empire as the dominant Yoruba military and political power in the 17th century.
The Oyo Empire under its oba, known as
the Alaafin of Oyo, was active in the African slave trade during the 18th century. The Yoruba often demanded slaves as a form of tribute of subject populations, who in turn sometimes made war on other peoples to capture
the required slaves. Part of the slaves sold by the Oyo Empire entered the Atlantic slave trade.
Most of the city states were controlled by Obas (or royal sovereigns with various individual titles) and councils made up of
Oloyes, recognised leaders of royal, noble and, often, even common descent, who joined them in ruling over the kingdoms
through a series of guilds and cults. Different states saw differing ratios of power between the kingships and the chiefs' councils. Some, such as Oyo, had powerful, autocratic monarchs with almost total control, while in others such
as the Ijebu city-states, the senatorial councils held more influence and the power of the ruler or Ọba, referred to as the Awujale of Ijebuland, was more
limited. Yoruba settlements are often described as primarily one or more of the main social groupings called "generations"
The "first generation" includes towns and cities known as original capitals of founding Yoruba kingdoms or states.
The "second generation" consists of settlements created by conquest.
The "third generation" consists of
villages and municipalities that emerged following the internecine wars of the 19th century.

Truckpusher:

Ilekeh:
Tourism in Yorubaland is enough to generate revenue equivalent to Oil (or close)

Everybody is infatuated with the Yoruba language. Second to Swahili.

This aunty can lie for Africa

Ilekeh:


Anything Yoruba insults that entire race (Igbo).

Pretending to be satisfied with Yoruba progress is temporary.

And this is progress....any unification of Yorubas from different corners of the earth is progress.

Yorubas need to bank on it.

So banking on it means calling Igbos names?


You're more mature than this na!


I'm Igbo and this is good news...I don't see anything in it that would cut my life short.


So what are you saying?


Its good that a Nigerian language is being propagated elsewhere.

Even us Igbos have our brothers in Trinidad and Tobago.


Ghanaians have ties with Jamaica.

Its nothing new please,stop making stratospheres out of molehills.

My 2 kobo.