Nairalanders,

My friend and I are working on a software that will translate virtually all yoruba names, and we need a list of yoruba names with their meaning to compile, can you guy help and tell us what you think.

agbari_yin ti pe tan... bout time and none the sooner.. GO ON SOME AND THE BEST OF LUCK TO YOU...

I can't find any yoruba dictionary on the link you provided.

I thought he said they are "developing" it. Any from the thread starter's post, i dont think that a dictionary. Its just a name translator. I think yoruba 'form' names so u possibly cant have ever yoruba name in it cuz new ones come up daily...but it worth a try anyway.

Ok, let me say name translator as layi said, we are still working on it so, it is not in the site yet

interesting idea. i hope you guys are using a language that can handle text quite well(eg python, perl, c++).

preferably you can create a set of tokens form which all other yoruba names can be generated (as they say in mathematics, a basis for the vector space of yoruba names).(c++ uses a function strtok, you could study that and write yours)

An example,
Fakayode = Ifa+ko+ayo+de with special rules set up that determine how words combine together (in your ssce yoruba class, they possibly called it Isunki Oro).

each of the words you need can be found by possibly getting as many yoruba names as you can get and then convince a yoruba speaker to identify the common parts of the names.

As many as they may seem, I believe there is a finite number of names though others do come up daily but your system if properly developed should be able to perform nine times out of ten and in the special circumstance that it does not recognise the meaning, there should be a way for it to signify the error.



I Hope i have helped you.

Nice project! Let me know if I can be of any assistance.

Please bring this discussion to the new Yorubaland web site at www.yorubaland.org

Good of you guyz. This what we call innovation.
Let me add some thing. Make sure that your software can synthesize that name (i.e pronounce). i think you can make use of java.sound package. I THINK it should be able to do it. work hard.

whatever happened to this project? Hope its not dead.