• Most Yoruba people speak the Yoruba language, which is the Niger-Congo language with the largest number of native or L1 speakers.[30].
  • Yoruba'ların çoğunluğu Nijerya'nın güneybatısında yaşasalar da, Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Küba gibi ülkelerde önemli Yoruba toplulukları yaşar.
  • The History of the Yoruba People Links to Ile-Ife and Oduduwa. The birth of the Yoruba kingdom is believed to come through Oduduwa in 2 different tales.
  • Language: The Yoruba language is spoken by the Yoruba people. It belongs to the Niger-Congo language family and is one of the major languages in Nigeria.
  • Yoruba, one of the three largest ethnic groups of Nigeria, concentrated in the southwestern part of that country.
  • The Yoruba religion has its own unique creation story, in which Olorun lived in the sky with the orishas, and the goddess Olokun was the ruler of all of the water below.
  • Oba Isaac Aderibigbe Àgbède, Ogidi II reigned as the Olowa of Igbara Oke, Ondo State from 1970 to 2000. Yoruba Facts. ... 2. 2. Yoruba Facts Retweeted.
  • Their descendants preserved Yoruba traditions. In several parts of the Caribbean and South America, Yoruba religion has been combined with Christianity.
  • Within Nigeria, where they dominate the Western part of the country, the Yoruba are one of the three largest and most important ethnic groups.