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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.

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.

The historical development of Yoruba dictionary-making from nineteenth-century missionary foundations through modern computational lexical databases.

A comprehensive scholarly study of the life, poetics, taxonomic frameworks, critical debates, and legacy of the Nigerian literary scholar and linguist Professor Ọlátúndé Ọlátúnjí.

Scholarly biography and linguistic evaluation of Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, detailing his contributions to Yorùbá digital lexicography, computational language technology, translation, and cultural archiving.

An authoritative overview of the Ọ̀yọ́ Yorùbá, examining their linguistic profile, political institutions, royal cults, and major historiographical debates.

An examination of the Àwórì Yorùbá subgroup, detailing their migration traditions, territorial distribution across Lagos and Ogun States, chieftaincy systems, dialectology, and ritual institutions.

A comprehensive scholarly study of the Ìdàáṣà Yorùbá subgroup of central Benin, examining their frontier history, inselberg topography, political institutions, linguistic distinctiveness, and sacred traditions.

A historical, linguistic, and cultural study of the Anàgó, a Western Yorùbá subgroup inhabiting the Nigeria-Benin borderland whose name became a defining transatlantic ethnonym.

A rigorous distinction among core Yorùbá linguistic, discursive, and oral literary categories that are frequently conflated in translation.