Yoruba


Culture:



The Yoruba are one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa and 21 percent, the third largest ethnic group of Nigeria.


The Yoruba (Yoruba proper name) is an African language. It is the language of the Yoruba spoken in Nigeria, Benin and Togo and is spoken by about 30 million people.


The Yoruba are one of the largest majority of the Yoruba live in southwestern Nigeria but there are also Yoruba communities in southwest central Togo and Benin (Atakpame).In Sierra Leone, Cuba and Brazil are also common to find (mostly) descended from the Yoruba.


The word is Yoruba-Hausa origin and originally signified the inhabitants of the State to Oyo. An early author of a history of the Yoruba Samuel Johnson, a pastor from the late 19th century.























maandag 31 januari 2011

Ingredients translate from Yoruba too Englisch

Nnkan Eeelo-Ingredients
 
adie - chicken
agbado - corn
agbon - coconut
akon - crab
alubosa - onions
apuulu - apples
ata - pepper
ataare - a type of pepper
buredi - bread
ede - shrimp
ege - cassava
efo - green leafy vegetables
eja - fish
elede - pork/pig
elubo - yam flour
epa - groundnut
epo - oil (in general)
epo pupa - red (palm) oil
eran - meat
eran gidi - real meat
eso - fruit
ewa - beans
ewa funfun - black-eyed peas
ewa pupa - brown beans
ewe - leaves
ewedu - a type of green leafy vegetable
eyin - eggs
gari - cassava flour
ila - okra
iresi - rice
iru - fermented locust beans used for seasoning stew
isu -yams
iyo - salt 
miliiki - milk
obe adie - chicken stew
obe efo - green vegetable stew
obe eja - fish stew
obe elede - pork stew
obe eran - meat stew
obe ila - okra stew
obe tolotolo - turkey stew
obi - kola nut
ogede - bananas
ogede agbagba - plantains
orogbo - bitter kola
osan - orange
oyin - honey
panla - a type of dry fish
sardiini - sardine
suga - sugar
tomati - tomato
tolotolo - turkey

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