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=== References === *{{cite book | author=Adetugbọ, Abiọdun | year=1982 | chapter=Towards a Yoruba Dialectology | editor=Afọlayan | title=Yoruba Language and Literature | pages=207–224 }} *{{cite book | editor=Afọlayan, Adebisi | year=1982 | title=Yoruba language and literature | publisher=University of Ifẹ Press / Ibadan University Press | location=Ifẹ / Ibadan }} *{{cite journal | author=Ajayi, J.F. Ade | year=1960 | title=How Yoruba was Reduced to Writing | journal=Odu: A Journal of Yoruba, Ẹdo and Related Studies | issue=8 | pages=49–58 }} *{{cite journal | author = Bamgboṣe, Ayọ | year=1965a | title=Assimilation and contraction in Yoruba | journal=Journal of West African Languages | issue=2 | pages=21–27 }} *{{cite book | author = Bamgboṣe, Ayọ | year=1965b | title=Yoruba Orthography | publisher=Ibadan University Press | location=Ibadan }} *{{cite book | author = Bamgboṣe, Ayọ | year = 1969 | title = Twelve Nigerian Languages | chapter = Yoruba | editor = Elizabeth Dunstan | pages = 166 | publisher = Africana Publishing Corp | location = New York | isbn = 0-8419-0031-0}} *{{cite book | author= Fagborun, J. Gbenga | year=1994 | title= The Yoruba Koiné – ''Its History and Linguistic Innovations'' | others= LINCOM Linguistic Edition vol. 6. | publisher= LINCOM Europe | location= München/Newcastle | isbn = 3-929075-47-4}} *{{cite book | author=Fresco, Max | year=1970 | title=Topics in Yoruba Dialect Phonology | others=(Studies in African Linguistics Supplement Vol. 1) | publisher=University of California, Dept. of Linguistics/ASC | location=Los Angeles }} *{{cite book | author=Ladipọ, Duro | year=1972 | title=Ọba kò so (The king did not hang) — Opera by Duro Ladipọ | others=(Transcribed and translated by R.G. Armstrong, Robert L. Awujọọla and Val Ọlayẹmi from a tape recording by R. Curt Wittig) | publisher=Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan | location=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. *{{cite book | author = Oyenuga, Soji www.YorubaForKidsAbroad.com | year = 2007 | title = Yoruba For Kids Abroad – Learn Yoruba In 27 Days| chapter = Yoruba | editor = Soji and Titi Oyenuga | pages = 27 days | publisher = Gaptel Innovative Solutions Inc | location = Saskatoon, Canada }} ==== History ==== *{{cite book |first=Abiọdun |last=Adetugbọ |chapter=The Yoruba Language in Yoruba History |title=Sources of Yoruba History |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/sourcesofyorubah0000biob |chapter-url-access=registration |editor-first=Saburi O. |editor-last=Biobaku |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1973 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/sourcesofyorubah0000biob/page/176 176–204] |isbn=0-19-821669-6 }} *{{cite book | author=Hair, P.E.H. | year=1967 | title=The Early Study of Nigerian Languages | chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/earlystudyofnige0000hair | chapter-url-access=registration | chapter=The Early Study of Yoruba, 1825{{ndash}}1850 | publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] | location=Cambridge }} *{{cite book | author=Law, R.C.C. | year=1973a | chapter=Contemporary Written Sources | editor=Biobaku, S.O. | title=Sources of Yoruba History | url=https://archive.org/details/sourcesofyorubah0000biob | url-access=registration | pages=[https://archive.org/details/sourcesofyorubah0000biob/page/9 9]–24 | publisher=Oxford, Clarendon Press | isbn=978-0-19-821669-8 }} *{{cite book | author=Law, R.C.C. | year=1973b | chapter= Traditional History | editor=Biobaku, S.O. | title=Sources of Yoruba History | url=https://archive.org/details/sourcesofyorubah0000biob | url-access=registration | pages=[https://archive.org/details/sourcesofyorubah0000biob/page/25 25]–40 | publisher=Oxford, Clarendon Press | isbn=978-0-19-821669-8 }} ==== Dictionaries ==== *{{cite book | author=Abraham, Roy Clive | year=1958 | title=Dictionary of Modern Yoruba | publisher=University of London Press | location=London }} *{{cite book | author=CMS (Canon C.W. Wakeman, ed.) | year=1950 |orig-year=1937 | title=A Dictionary of the Yoruba language | publisher=University Press | location=Ibadan }} *{{cite book | author=Delanọ, Oloye Isaac | year=1958 | title=Atúmọ̀ ede Yoruba [short dictionary and grammar of the Yoruba language] | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=London }} *{{cite book | author=Sachnine, Michka | year=1997 | title=Dictionnaire yorùbá-français, suivi d'un index français-yorùbâ | publisher=Karthala | location=Paris }} ==== Grammars and sketches ==== * [https://afranaphproject.afranaphdatabase.com/images/stories/downloads/casefiles/YorubaGS.pdf Adesola, Oluseye (2005). ''Yoruba: A Grammar Sketch. Version 1.0.'' The Afranaph Project.] *{{cite book | author=Adéwọlé, L.O. | year=2000 | title=Beginning Yorùbá (Part I) | others=Monograph Series no. 9 | publisher=CASAS | location=Cape Town }} *{{cite book | author=Adéwọlé, L.O. | year=2001 | title=Beginning Yorùbá (Part II) | others=Monograph Series no. 10 | publisher=CASAS | location=Cape Town }} *{{cite book | author= Bamgboṣe, Ayọ | year=1966 | title=A Grammar of Yoruba | others=[West African Languages Survey / Institute of African Studies] | publisher=Cambridge University Press | location= Cambridge }} *{{cite book |last1=Barber |first1=Karin |author-link= Karin Barber |title=Yorùbá Dùn ún So: a beginners' course in Yorùbá |date=1985 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=978-0300029581 |edition=1st}} *{{cite book | author=Bowen, Thomas Jefferson | title="Grammar and Dictionary of the Yoruba Language: With an Introductory Description of the Country and People of Yoruba" | year = 1858 }} [https://archive.org/details/grammardictionar00bowerich Available at the Internet Archive.] *{{cite book | author=Crowther, Samuel Ajayi | title=Yoruba Grammar | publisher=London | year=1852 }} The first grammar of Yoruba. [https://archive.org/details/agrammaryorubal00crowgoog Available at the Internet Archive.] *{{cite book | author=Rowlands, E.C. | year=1969 | title=Teach Yourself Yoruba | publisher=The English Universities Press | location=London }} *{{cite book | author=Ward, Ida | author-link=Ida Ward | year=1952 | title=An introduction to the Yoruba language | publisher=W. Heffer & Sons | location=Cambridge }} *{{cite book |author1=Yetunde, Antonia |author2=Schleicher, Folarin |name-list-style=amp | year=2006 | title=Colloquial Yoruba | publisher=Taylor & Francis Ltd (Routledge) | location=London }}
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