Language

What Yorùbá is as a language, which languages it is related to, how its dialects vary across Yorùbáland, and how many people speak it today.

The Yorùbá sound system and its three tones, with worked minimal pairs showing how pitch alone changes a word's meaning.

How Yorùbá came to be written in Arabic and then Roman script, who decided the spelling rules, and why the subdots and tone marks are not optional.

The machinery Yorùbá uses to make new words, and a worked, confidence-flagged examination of the etymologies of the key religious and philosophical terms.

What Yorùbá proverbs do in speech and in law, and a worked collection of more than forty proverbs in original, literal gloss, and idiomatic English.

What oríkì are, the different kinds, who performs them and why, and how they carry history that written records do not.

The categories of Yorùbá names, the naming ceremony, the names given for birth circumstances and for children thought to return, and a worked list of common names with their literal meanings.

How missionary and colonial translation produced the English words now used for Yorùbá religion, what Crowther's Bible did to Yorùbá religious vocabulary, how Èṣù came to mean Satan, and how to read older sources critically.

The Yorùbá press, D. O. Fágúnwà and the Yorùbá novel, Tutuola's contested place, the travelling theatre, Yorùbá film, and where the language stands in education and online.

How an adult who speaks some Yorùbá but cannot read it can start, covering the alphabet, tone marks, greetings, core vocabulary, keyboards, and named quality resources with links.

An analysis of the Yorùbá three-level register tone system, demonstrating through minimal pairs and grammatical operations why tone is an essential phonemic component rather than optional decoration.