Yoruba Dictionary

• YorubaDictionary: Yoruba-English dictionary, by Pamela Smith & Adebusola Onayemi

• Freelang: Yoruba-English dictionary

• Hippocrene concise dictionary: Yoruba-English & English-Yoruba, by Kayode Fakinlede (2003)

• Dictionary of Modern Yoruba by Roy Abraham (1958)

• Dictionary of the Yoruba language based on the work of Samuel Crowther, enlarged by E. Sowande, E. Fry, T Ogunbiyi (1913)

• Second edition (1937)

• Vocabulary of the Yoruba language by Samuel Crowther (1852)

• Vocabulary of the Yoruba language (1843)

• Dictionary of the Yoruba language by Thomas Bowen (1858)

• YorubaName: meanings of Yorùbá names (+ audio)

• The body in Yoruba by Mark Dingemanse (2006)

• The Yoruba animal metaphors by Adesola Olateju, in Nordic journal of African studies (2005)

• Yoruba names and gender marking by Olanikė Ola Orie, in Anthropological linguistics (2002)

• Historical changes in Yoruba names (2016)

→ Yoruba keyboard to type text with special characters of the Latin alphabet

ṣ corresponds to sh; the vowels ẹ and ọ with a dot below are open (e and o are close)

• Yoruba grammar sketch by Oluseye Adesola

• Yoruba basic course, Foreign Service Institute

• Yoruba writing: standards and trends, by Tèmítọ́pẹ́ Olúmúyìwá, in Journal of Arts & Humanities (2013)

• Is Yoruba an endangered language ? by Felix Abidemi Fabunmi & Akeem Segun Salawu, in Nordic Journal of African studies (2005)

• Problems of lexical decomposition, the case of Yoruba complex verbs, by Joshua Abiodun Ogunwale, in Nordic Journal of African studies (2005)

• The high tone syllable in central Yoruba dialects by Temitope Olumuyiwa, in Nordic Journal of African studies (2009)

• De l'oralité à la littérature, métamorphoses de la parole chez les Yorubas, by Affin Laditan, in Semen (2004)

• Jé k'á so yorùbá: Yoruba grammar, by Antonia Schleicher (1993)

• My Yoruba alphabet: alphabet and pronunciation, by Richard Edward Dennett (1916)

• Language studies in Yoruba published by the Church Mission Society (1914)

• Grammar of the Yoruba language by Samuel Crowther (1852)

• Notes on the construction of the Yoruba language by J. B. Wood (1879)

• Grammar and dictionary of the Yoruba language & Introductory description of the country and people of Yoruba, by Thomas Bowen (1858)

• Notice sur le pays et le peuple des Yébous en Afrique by Armand d'Avezac, in Mémoires de la Société ethnologique (1845)

• Esquisse grammaticale de la langue yéboue

• books & papers about the Yoruba language: Google books | Academia | Wikipedia

• Samuel Crowther, the slave boy who became bishop of the Niger, by Jesse Page (1888) + text version

• The black bishop, Samuel Adjai Crowther (1909)

• The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive: Yoruba words (+ audio)

• Yoruba folk songs (~1930)

• Bible.is: Bibeli mimọ (1960) (+ audio)

• Bibeli mimọ (Holy Bible): translation into Yoruba (1900)

• AfricanPortal: translation of the Bible into Yoruba

• Katekismu l'ede yoruba: translation of the Catéchisme de Cambrai (1894)

• Iwé orin mimọ l'ede yoruba ou Manuel de chants religieux de la mission du Benin (1893)

• Iwé adura yoruba: prayer book, psalms & biblical verses (1879)

• Orin mimọ: religious songs (1876)

• Orin ati iyin si Ọlọrun by J. White (1870)

• Iwé orin: religious songs (1865)

• The Quran: translation into Yoruba

→ First article in different languages

→ Universal Declaration of Human Rights: bilingual text in Yoruba, English & other languages

• The frontier states of Western Yorubaland: state formation and political growth in an ethnic frontier zone, by Biodun Adediran (1994)

• Human personality and the Yoruba worldview: an ethico-sociological interpretation, by Fayemi Ademola Kazeem, in The Journal of pan African studies (2009)

• The origin and form of the Yoruba masque theatre by Joel Adedeji, in Cahiers d'études africaines (1972)

• Law in traditional Yoruba philosophy: a critical appraisal, by Adeyemi Ademowo (2014)

• Contradictions in Yoruba folk beliefs concerning post-life existence: the Ado example, by Isola Olomola, in Journal des africanistes (1988)

• Yoruba Christian video narrative and indigenous imaginations by Obododimma Oha, in Cahiers d'études africaines (2002)

• Conflict resolution in the traditional Yoruba political system by Anthony Okion Ojigbo, in Cahiers d'études africaines (1973)

• Violence in dialogue: Yorùbá women in actions, by George Olusola Ajibade, in Cahiers d'études africaines (2011)

• The history of the Yorubas, from the earliest times to the beginning of the British Protectorate, by Samuel Johnson (1921)

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