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How To Identify And Differentiate A Yoruba Name Or A Yoruba Person From Other Nigerians.

This guide will help non-Nigerian to different Yoruba from other Nigerian.

Quick one:
A. A Yoruba name does not have 'Ch', 'Kw', 'Nn', 'Nm', 'Mn', 'Mm' written together in it.
B. You rarely will find two (non nasal) consonant written together except for 'Gb' which is very common.
C. A Yoruba name or word does not begin with the letter 'U'
D. There are no Q, C, Z, X, and V alphabets in Yoruba words so you will not see them in a Yoruba name.
E. Yoruba word or name do not end with a consonant. (except for nasal consonant 'n' only)
F. Most Yoruba word or name end with a vowel, with just an exception of nasal consonant 'n'.


## On Nigeria Passport, ''Place of birth" of most Yoruba people are located in these state: Oyo state, Lagos State, Ogun state, Ondo State, Kwara state, Osun state, Ekiti state, Kogi state and Edo state (All south west state). If you search on google. e.g Ibadan (my place of birth) is located in Oyo state.
## Most Yoruba persons are respectful.
## Most Yoruba people are civil. Their engagement are mostly intellectually.
## Although, Yoruba people are very spiritual, you will rarely see a Yoruba person as religion extremist.
## Most young Yoruba are Hardworking, Tech savvy, honest and trust worthy. They are Omoluabi.
## A Yoruba person is not boastful.
## Most Yoruba person are contented.
## Most Yoruba are easygoing
## Few of the elderly Yoruba people have tribal mark on their faces.



Tori bi omo o ba daran la se n fun l'oruko. Those non-Yoruba people who are well determined to spoil Nigeria name both within and outside the country (in the name name of being a Nigerian) should be easily differentiated from Yoruba.







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Yes

Just Ibadan

Your Ibadan

Beautiful people

BrutusOj:
Oga, kindly educate me oo. Are you saying there are people in Cuba and Brazil who speak Yoruba or a dialect of Yoruba? If yes, kindly share a video clip. I mean indigenous people of Cuba and Brazil not japa people oo.

Check these out:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt0taRu0dE0&pp=ygURYWRhbGJlcnRvIGFsdmFyZXo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSbD2uljKug


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2buVyqLm5A

Check these thread for more: https://www.nairaland.com/7764565/check-out-these-beautiful-yoruba

Yes

Our Ibadan

Ibadan

Gboom:
Yooba o rorun lati ko abi lati ka nitoripe gbogbo eko ipinle wa ni awon ile iwe wa ede geesi ni won fi ko won (Most of our initial lessons are being taught in English language)

Ododo. Sugbon a ko gbodo fi ede wa sile. Opolopo awon alawo funfun paapa ti n ko lati lee so ede yoruba. Opolopo won lo si n ko ise asa Yoruba pelu.

I love my heritage

Yoruba

Yoruba

Yoruba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtEAGBRQfMI

Omoluabi

Omo, Ile,

Omoluwabi

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Iba Olodumare