Ancient History and Folklore of the Yoruba In old Yoruba (Nigeria), pieces of cloth and brass rods were currency. A piece of cloth was about 25 feet long by 3 feet wide. A brass rod was shaped with a narrow croquet hoop about 16 inches long and 6 inches across. Tombo is an intoxicating drinkContinue reading “YORUBA 02072022 Day 101”
Category Archives: Yoruba
VOTE 2021September24 DAY025 end of week 5
Review of the Week This week we studied 4 languages and cultures: Yoruba (YER-ra-ba), Wiradjuri (we-RAD-jer-ree), !Xoo, and Vietnamese (VEE-et-na-mees). My vote is to say farewell Yoruba and !Xoo. or “O dabo” if you speak Yoruban. Sorry awesome languages but there is not enough information on !Xoo, and I want the aboriginal languages to liveContinue reading “VOTE 2021September24 DAY025 end of week 5”
2021September20 DAY021 Yorubaland
HISTORY Nigeria’s won freedom independence and sovereignty from Great Britain on Oct. 1, 1960. Yoruba was very male dominated. Chadwick Boseman, aka Black Panther, had roots to Yorubaland. Transatlantic slave trade. Slave traders run by European countries and USA abducted kidnapped 4 million slaves from Nigeria and transported 1000’s of miles across the Atlantic OceanContinue reading “2021September20 DAY021 Yorubaland”
Ōlelo Huhū
Welcome to Language Madness or Ōlelo Huhū. Over the next 37 weeks we will be studying 128 world languages. Please let me know especially if you have videos or movies links that are in or about any of these languages and or Native Speakers that might want to participate. These Languages will be “competing” againstContinue reading “Ōlelo Huhū”
LANGUAGE MADNESS 