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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

NEW 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 »

Learn Yoruba.
www.learnyoruba.com

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

NEW 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

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

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

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

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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