Yoruba (nama asli èdè Yorùbá) adalah Bahasa di Afrika Barat dengan lebih dari 25 juta penutur. Bahasa ini dituturkan di Nigeria, Benin dan Togo dan jejaknya dapat ditemui di Brasil, Sierra Leone, Ghana dan Kuba. Yoruba adalah Bahasa asli Afrika yang paling banyak dituturkan ketiga. Bahasa ini memiliki nada seperti Bahasa Tionghoa.

Catatan kaki

Referensi

Adetugbọ, Abiọdun (1982). "Towards a Yoruba Dialectology". Dalam Afọlayan. Yoruba Language and Literature. hlm. 207–224. Afọlayan, Adebisi (ed.) (1982). Yoruba language and literature. Ifẹ / Ibadan: University of Ifẹ Press / Ibadan University Press. Pemeliharaan CS1: Teks tambahan: authors list (link) Ajayi, J.F. Ade (1960). "How Yoruba was Reduced to Writing". Odu: A Journal of Yoruba, Ẹdo and Related Studies (8): 49–58. Bamgboṣe, Ayọ (1965a). "Assimilation and contraction in Yoruba". Journal of West African Languages (2): 21–27. Bamgboṣe, Ayọ (1965b). Yoruba Orthography. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press. Bamgboṣe, Ayọ (1969). "Yoruba". Dalam Elizabeth Dunstan. Twelve Nigerian Languages. New York: Africana Publishing Corp. hlm. 166. ISBN 0-8419-0031-0. Fagborun, J. Gbenga (1994). The Yoruba Koiné – Its History and Linguistic Innovations. LINCOM Linguistic Edition vol. 6. München/Newcastle: LINCOM Europe. ISBN 3-929075-47-4. Fresco, Max (1970). Topics in Yoruba Dialect Phonology. (Studies in African Linguistics Supplement Vol. 1). Los Angeles: University of California, Dept. of Linguistics/ASC. Ladipọ, Duro (1972). Ọba kò so (The king did not hang) — Opera by Duro Ladipọ. (Transcribed and translated by R.G. Armstrong, Robert L. Awujọọla and Val Ọlayẹmi from a tape recording by R. Curt Wittig). Ibadan: Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. Oyètádé, B. Akíntúndé & Buba, Malami (2000) 'Hausa Loan Words in Yorùbá', in Wolff & Gensler (eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd WoCAL, Leipzig 1997, Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 241-260. Oyenuga, Soji www.YorubaForKidsAbroad.com (2007). "Yoruba". Dalam Soji and Titi Oyenuga. Yoruba For Kids Abroad - Learn Yoruba In 27 Days. Saskatoon, Canada: Gaptel Innovative Solutions Inc. hlm. 27 days.

= Sejarah

= Adetugbọ, Abiọdun (1973). "The Yoruba Language in Yoruba History". Dalam Biobaku, Saburi O. Sources of Yoruba History. Oxford: Clarendon Press. hlm. 176–204. ISBN 0-19-821669-6. Hair, P.E.H. (1967). "The Early Study of Yoruba, 1825-1850". The Early Study of Nigerian Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Law, R.C.C. (1973a). "Contemporary Written Sources". Dalam Biobaku, S.O. Sources of Yoruba History. hlm. 9–24. Law, R.C.C. (1973b). "Traditional History". Dalam Biobaku, S.O. Sources of Yoruba History. hlm. 25–40.

= Kamus

= Abraham, Roy Clive (1958). Dictionary of Modern Yoruba. London: University of London Press. CMS (Canon C.W. Wakeman, ed.) (1950) [1937]. A Dictionary of the Yoruba language. Ibadan: University Press. Delanọ, Oloye Isaac (1958). Atúmọ̀ ede Yoruba [short dictionary and grammar of the Yoruba language]. London: Oxford University Press. Sachnine, Michka (1997). Dictionnaire yorùbá-français, suivi d'un index français-yorùbâ. Paris: Karthala.

= Tata Bahasa dan sketsa

= Adéwọlé, L.O. (2000). Beginning Yorùbá (Part I). Monograph Series no. 9. Cape Town: CASAS. Adéwọlé, L.O. (2001). Beginning Yorùbá (Part II). Monograph Series no. 10. Cape Town: CASAS. Bamgboṣe, Ayọ (1966). A Grammar of Yoruba. [West African Languages Survey / Institute of African Studies]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Barber, Karin (1985). Yorùbá Dùn ún So: a beginners' course in Yorùbá (edisi ke-1st). New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300029581. Crowther, Samuel Ajayi (1852). Yoruba Grammar. London. The first grammar of Yoruba. Rowlands, E.C. (1969). Teach Yourself Yoruba. London: The English Universities Press. Ward, Ida (1952). An introduction to the Yoruba language. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons. Yetunde, Antonia & Schleicher, Folarin (2006). Colloquial Yoruba. London: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Routledge).