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SAMAD
SAMAD@Samad_wurld·
I wonder what the Yoruba elders were on back in the day😂. With words like: Ìkànnì Ayélujára - Website Abàmì - A strange occurrence Ìwọ̀ntún-wọ̀nsì - Balance Òfurufú - Sky Ìbálòpọ̀ - Sexual intercourse Àwùjẹ̀ - Fontanelle Atàpátadìde - Someone who made it from a poor background Adàgbà jẹ́ raufu - A slang for a fool Jẹ̀dí Jẹ̀dí - Pile Àjàkálẹ̀ aarun - An epidemic disease Àkàndá ènìyàn - A special/unique person They tend to avoid being too explicit, so they soften certain words, for example, referring to private parts with indirect terms like “Nkan ọmọkunrin” or “Ojú ara” instead of saying them outright. How did you come up with ‘Arara’ for dwarf or Non-chalant as ‘Àìbìkítà’ 🤣 How can we use three different words to express the same idea like “Effort” — làálàá, akitiyan, and ìgbìyànjú. The language is really fascinating.
Oyindamola🙄@dammiedammie35

“Yoruba is a very difficult language, I wouldn’t recommend it for my fav scholar. Hausa is looser than Yoruba, and Igbo is a little bit more torturous than Yoruba but nothing compares to the musicality of Yoruba, Yoruba sings. Some people are just tone d£af” - Prof Woke Soyinka

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AJADI 𓃵
AJADI 𓃵@ajadi75473·
@Samad_wurld We supposed start Yoruba Twitter (YT), like south Africa, Russia and Japan dey use their own language tweet make we swf dey use our own
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