Yoruban

Variant of Yoruba

noun

  1. pl. Yorubas or Yoruba a member of a people of SW Nigeria and neighboring regions
  2. the language of this people, a tone language of the Niger-Congo subfamily

adjective

of the Yorubas or their language or culture

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