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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.

How to read the diacritics and tone marks used throughout this corpus, with worked examples and links to audio resources.

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

The one modern peer-reviewed source in this section that names its informants and prints Yorùbá song text, and the one defect in it that governs how every song from it is reproduced.