Yoruba

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1. tiếng Yoruba

   A sub-Saharan language. It belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family, and has nearly 40 million speakers in Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and Sierra Leone, as well as communities in The United States, Brazil and Cuba.

   Comparative wordlists of two dialects of Yoruba with Igala.

2. đạo Yoruba

   An African traditional religion which spawned various offshoots in the Americas in the 15th to 19th centuries, including santería and Lucumí. (See Yoruba religion.)

   The Yoruba practitioner describes it as a condition where a man's semen will flow out of the vagina before fertilization can take place.

   The Yoruba practitioner has no difficulty in knowing the difference between what we have classified as magic, medicine or sorcery.

   She was not a Yoruba practitioner but nevertheless had asked for a “birth reading” for her newborn daughter.