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Yoruba

 

Distribution of Yoruba

Online communities, weblogs, mailinglists, newsgroups back to top »

Bisharat discussion board: Yoruba language & ICT.
www.quicktopic.com/share?s=QSpo

Google in Yoruba.
www.google.com/intl/yo

Wikipedia in Yoruba.
yo.wikipedia.org

Dictionaries, word lists, etc. back to top »

Èdèyèdè project - Internet living Yoruba dictionary. Georgia Southern University.
www.yoruba.georgiasouthern.edu

Thomas J. Bowen, 1858
Grammar and dictionary of the Yoruba language (PDF). Washington DC.
www.archive.org/details/grammardictionar00bowerich

Pamela Smith, Adesubola Onayemi
Yorùbá Dictionary Online.
www.yorubadictionary.com

Learners' materials, grammar introductions, etc. back to top »

On-line text book for Yoruba language learners and teachers.
www.africa.uga.edu/Yoruba

Learn Yoruba.
www.learnyoruba.com

P.B. Irénikatché Akponike
Apprendez la langue de Awo-Ifa: Yoruba.
geocities.com/edeawoyoruba

Thomas J. Bowen, 1858
Grammar and dictionary of the Yoruba language (PDF). Washington DC.
www.archive.org/details/grammardictionar00bowerich

Studies in grammar and lexicon back to top »

Harrison Adeniyi, 2007
A comparative study of reduplication in Edo and Yoruba (PDF). MorphOn: e-journal of morphology, 2 April 2007, p. 1-23.
www.morphologyonline.com

Olúsèye Adésolá, Ken Safir
Yoruba files - grammar sketch, anaphora sketch, questionnaire. African Anaphora Project, Rutgers University.
www.africananaphora.rutgers.edu/Yoruba.html

George Olusola Ajibade, 2005
Multifaces of word in Yorùbá orature (PDF). Journal of language and literature, v. 4, p. 20-30.
www.shakespeare.uk.net/journal/jllit/4_1/ajibade4_1.htm

Oladiipo Jacob Ajiboye, Sloveiga Armoskaite, 2005
Yorùbá 3rd person pro-forms are pro-DPs (PDF). From the proceedings of the 2005 CLA (Canadian Linguistics Association) annual conference.
ling.uwo.ca/publications/CLA-ACL/CLA-ACL2005.htm

Sergio Baldi
On Arabic loans in Yoruba (PDF).
eric.ed.gov (ED394282)

Mark Dingemanse, 2006
The body in Yoruba: a linguistic study (PDF). MA thesis. University of Leiden.
markdingemanse.nl/linguistics

Adeleke A. Fakoya, 2006
Response-comment elements in Yorùbá conversational discourse (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 36th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/36/index.html

Antonia Y. Folarin, 1987
Lexical and phrasal phonology of Yoruba nouns (PDF). Kansas working papers in linguistics, v. 12, p. 43-66.
hdl.handle.net/1808/510

Antonia Y. Folarin, 1988
Prefix oni- in Yoruba (PDF). Kansas working papers in linguistics, v. 13, p. 44-53.
hdl.handle.net/1808/624

Felix Abídèmí Fábùnmi, 2003
A GPSG appraisal of sequential distribution of auxiliary verbs in Ìjesà dialect of Yorùbá (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 12 (3), p. 355-371.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

Abayomi Kizito Folorunso, 2001
Pronoms et reprises dans le discours écrit en français et en yoruba. Thèse de doctorat. Université Lumière (Lyon 2).
demeter.univ-lyon2.fr:8080/sdx/theses/lyon2/2001/folorunso_ak

Susie Jones, 2007
Focus in Yorùbá: a semantic/pragmatic account (PDF). From: ZAS papers in linguistics, v. 46, p. 143-160.
www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil

Michael Kenstowicz, 2006
Tone loans: the adaptation of English loanwords into Yoruba (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 35th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/35/index.html

M.T. Lamidi, 2004
The scopal authority of heads in Yoruba-English code-switching (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 13 (1), p. 76-94.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

Nike S. Lawal, 2006
Yoruba pronominal anaphor òun and the Binding Theory (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 35th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/35/index.html

Joshua Abiodun Ogunwale, 2005
Problems of lexical decomposition: the case of Yoruba complex verbs (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 14 (3), p. 318-333.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

Afolabi Olabode
Stylistic embedding in Yoruba literature (PDF).
eric.ed.gov (ED391370)

Adésolá Olátéjú, 2005
The Yorùbá animal metaphors: analysis and interpetation (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 14 (3), p. 368-383.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

Oye Taiwo, 2006
Yes/no questions in Ào (PDF). SKASE (Slovak Association for the Study of English) journal of theoretical linguistics, v. 3, 3, p. 40-58.
www.skase.sk

Oye Taiwo, 2007
Object pronouns in the Ào dialect of Yoruba (PDF). SKASE (Slovak Association for the Study of English) journal of theoretical linguistics, v. 4, 3, p. 32-44.
www.skase.sk

Pronunciation, phonetics, phonology, tones back to top »

Yoruba sound files at the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive.
archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/main2.htm

Akinbiyi Akinlabi, 2000
Sonorant nasalization in Yoruba deverbal nouns (PDF). To appear in: Proceedings of the 3rd World Congress of African linguists.
www.rci.rutgers.edu/~akinlabi/Sonorant-nasal.pdf

Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Mark Liberman, 2000
The tonal phonology of Yoruba clitics (PDF). From: Clitics in phonology, morphology and syntax. Edited by B. Gerlach & J. Grijzenhout. John Benjamins Publ. Co.
www.rci.rutgers.edu/~akinlabi/yoruba-clitics.pdf

Akinbiyi Akinabi, Mark Liberman, 2007
Tonal complexes: the prosodic organization of tones (PDF). Rutgers Optimal Archive ROA-911.
roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?id=1302

Paulin Ogundipe Alo, 1989
Phonetic aspects of nasalization in Tsabe (Yoruba) (PDF). Pholia, v. 4, p. 7-20.
www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/divers/Download/Pholia/Pholia_N-4.pdf (whole issue)

Paulin Ogundipe Alo, 1990
Interaction between segments and tone in Tsabe (PDF). Pholia, v. 5, p. 7-16.
www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/divers/Download/Pholia/Pholia_N-5.pdf (whole issue)

Michael Cahill, 2006
Perceptions of Yoruba word-initial [gb] and [b] (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 36th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/36/index.html

Baruch Elimelech, 1974
On the reality of underlying contour tones (PDF). UCLA working papers in phonetics, v. 27, p. 74-83.
repositories.cdlib.org/uclaling/wpp/No27/

Antonia Y. Folarin, 1987
Lexical and phrasal phonology of Yoruba nouns (PDF). Kansas working papers in linguistics, v. 12, p. 43-66.
hdl.handle.net/1808/510

Phil Harrison, 1998
Yoruba babies and unchained melody (PDF). From: UCL (University College London) working papers in linguistics, v. 10.
www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/PUB/WPL/98papers/abstracts/harrison.htm

Michael Kenstowicz, 2006
Tone loans: the adaptation of English loanwords into Yoruba (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 35th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/35/index.html

Peter Ladefoged
Vowels and consonants: Yoruba. Sound files hosted at the UCLA Phonetics Lab.
hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/index/language.html

Peter Ladefoged, Karen Emmorey, 1985
Cross-linguistic issues in the relationship between semi-vowels and vowels (PDF). UCLA working papers in phonetics, v. 61, p. 87-.
repositories.cdlib.org/uclaling/wpp/No61/

Ian Maddieson, 1974
A possible new cause for tone-splitting: evidence from Cama, Yoruba and other languages (PDF). UCLA working papers in phonetics, v. 27, p. 28-46.
repositories.cdlib.org/uclaling/wpp/No27/

Olanike-Ola Orie, 2006
L2 acquisition and Yoruba tones: issues and challenges (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 36th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/36/index.html

Jeremy Perkins, 2005
The RTR harmonic domain in two dialects of Yorùbá (PDF). MA thesis. University of British Columbia.
roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?id=1336

Marek Przezdziecki, 2005
Vowel harmony and coarticulation in three dialects of Yoruba: phonetics determining phonology (PDF). PhD dissertation. Cornell University.
ling.cornell.edu/docs/przezdziecki2005.pdf

Claire K. Turner, 2006
Tone fusion in Mòbà Yorùbá (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 35th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/35/index.html

Carl Richard la Velle, 1974
An experimental study of Yoruba tones (PDF). UCLA working papers in phonetics, v. 27, p. 160-170.
repositories.cdlib.org/uclaling/wpp/No27/

Miscellaneous, unsorted back to top »

Egbe Isokan Yoruba. Institute of Yoruba Language and Culture, Washington DC.
www.yoruba.org/education.htm

Yoruba language & ICT - a Bisharat discussion board.
www.quicktopic.com/share?s=QSpo

Timothy Temilela Ajani, 2006
Pioneering Yoruba as a foreign language at an historically black institution: cultural, ideological and curricular challenges (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 36th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/36/index.html

George O. Ajibade, 2005
Is there no man with penis in this land? Eroticism and performance in Yoruba nuptial songs (PDF). African study monographs, v. 26 (2), p. 99-113.
jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_suppl/root.htm

Oyewole Arohunmolase, 2006
Globalization and the problems and prospects of teaching and learning of Yoruba as a second language (L2) in colleges of education in Nigeria (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 36th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/36/index.html

M.O. Ayeomoni, 2006
Code-switching and code-mixing: style of language use in childhood in Yoruba speech community (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 15, p. 90-99.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

C. Chanard
Yorouba (several), Ife - systèmes alphabétiques d'après "Alphabets des langues africaines", Unesco-SIL 1993. LLACAN (Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire).
sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono

O.S. Elegbeleye, 2005
Value assessment of greeting scripts in the interpersonal disposition of the Yoruba and the Igbo cultures of Nigeria (PDF). Studies in tribes and tribals, v. 3 (1), p. 21-25.
www.krepublishers.com/02-Journals/T%20&%20T/T%20&%20T-03-0-000-000-2005-Web/T%20&%20T-03-1-000-000-2005-Abst-PDF/T%20&%20T-03-1-021-025-2005-046-Elegbeleye-O-S/T%20&%20T-03-1-021-025-2005-046-Elegbeleye-O-S-Full-Text.pdf

Alfred B. Ellis, 1894
Yoruba-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa. Originally published by Chapman & Hall in London. Webbaccess by the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
www.sacred-texts.com/afr/yor/index.htm

Felix Abidemi Fabunmi, Akeem Segun Salawu, 2005
Is Yorùbá an endangered language? (PDF). Nordic journal of African studies, v. 14 (3), p. 391-408.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

Adeleke A. Fakoya, 2006
Response-comment elements in Yoruba conversational discourse (PDF). From: Nordic journal of African studies, v. 15, p. 277-295.
www.njas.helsinki.fi

Adeleke A. Fakoya, 2007
Sexually-grounded proverbs and discourse relevance: insights from Yoruba (PDF). From: California linguistic notes, v. 32, n. 1.
hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln

Adeleke A. Fakoya, 2007
Tummy talk and the Yoruba language: a conversation-analytic deployment of a local element to a global topic (PDF). From: California linguistic notes, v. 32, n. 1.
hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln

Adeleke A. Fakoya, 2008
Endangerment scenario: the case of Yoruba (PDF). From: California linguistic notes, v. 33, n. 1.
hss.fullerton.edu/linguistics/cln

M.I. Ogumefu, 1929
Yoruba legends. Originally published by Sheldon Press in London. Webbaccess by the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
www.sacred-texts.com/afr/yl/index.htm

Isaac Adejoju Ogunbiyi, 2003
The search for a Yoruba orthography since the 1840s: obstacles to the choice of the Arabic script (PDF). Sudanic Africa: a journal of historical sources, v. 14, p. 77-102.
www.hf.uib.no/smi/sa

F. Adetowun Ogunsheye, 1963
A preliminary bibliography of the Yoruba language (PDF). Compiled for the UNESCO language seminar on the teaching of Yoruba and English in primary schools. Inst. of Librarianship, Univ. of Ibadan.
unesdoc.unesco.org

Akinloye Ojo, 2006
A global evaluation of the teaching and learning of Yorùbá language as a second or foreign language (PDF). From: Selected proceedings of the 36th annual conference on African linguistics. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/36/index.html

Bertram A. Okolo, 1981
The history of Nigerian linguistics: a preliminary survey (PDF). Kansas working papers in linguistics, v. 6, p. 99-125.
hdl.handle.net/1808/558

G. de Pauw, P.W. Wagacha, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, 2007
Automatic diacritic restoration for resource-scarce languages (PDF). From: Text, speech and dialogue (proceedings of the 10th international TSD conference). Edited by V. Matousek and P. Mautner. Julius Springer-Verlag.
aflat.org/?q=node/184

I.S. Popoola, 2004
The role of culture in the survival of traditional African systems of communication: a case study of Yoruba tribal group in Nigeria (PDF). Studies in tribes and tribals, v. 2 (2), p. 105-111.
www.krepublishers.com/02-Journals/T%20&%20T/T%20&%20T-02-0-000-000-2004-Web/T%20&%20T-02-2-077-135-2004-Abst-PDF/T%20&%20T-02-2-105-111-2004-037-Popoola-I-S/T%20&%20T-02-2-105-111-2004-Popoola-I-S.pdf

L. Oladipo Salami, 2004
Deference and subordination: gender roles and other variables in addressing and referring to husbands by Yoruba women. Linguistik online, v. 21, p. 65-80.
www.linguistik-online.de/31_07/salamiTaiwo.html

L. Oladipo Salami, Akinmade Timothy Akande, 2006
Aspects of the grammar of the spoken English of a Yoruba stroke patient (PDF). SKASE (Slovak Association for the Study of English) journal of theoretical linguistics, v. 3, 1, p. 25-37.
www.skase.sk

Abiodun Salawu, 2004
The Yoruba and their language newspapers: origin, nature, problems and prospects (PDF). Studies in tribes and tribals, v. 2 (2), p. 97-104.
www.krepublishers.com/02-Journals/T%20&%20T/T%20&%20T-02-0-000-000-2004-Web/T%20&%20T-02-2-077-135-2004-Abst-PDF/T%20&%20T-02-2-097-104-2004-032-Salawu-A/T%20&%20T-02-2-097-104-2004-Salawu-A.pdf

Pierre Verger, 1972
Automatisme verbal et communication du savoir chez les Yoruba. L'homme, v. 12 (42), p. 5-46.
www.persee.fr/showIssue.do?issueKey=hom_0439-4216_1972_num_12_2

Wikipedia
The Yoruba language.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_language

Yisa Kehinde Yusuf, 2002
Sexism, English and Yoruba. Linguistik online, v. 11, p. 7-23.
www.linguistik-online.de/11_02/yusuf.html


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