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Yoruba Common

Yoruba has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a member of a West African people living chiefly in southwestern Nigeria

2

a Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba in southwestern Nigeria

3

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, Brazil and Cuba.

Proper Noun
1

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 Brazil and Cuba.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
Nigerian Kwa
Rhyming Words
cuba zuba yuba wuba tuba luba kuba juba chuba scuba tsuba snuba aruba lyuba aucuba tituba incuba hecuba baluba saxtuba
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