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Collections

• CollectionsDi corpus own structured record sets: proverbs, tales, wisdom entries, children games, and di oríkì harvest wey dem never review.

Interactive tools and lookups

• ExploreFive interactive ways to enter di corpus: di Odù structure, di map of towns and diaspora, di dated chronology, di local concept graph, and di visual gallery.
• Di 256 OdùEvery Odù na signature of eight marks across two column. Check di complete 256, open any one to see wetin dey inside, di ẹsẹ Ifá verse dem, themes and stories, change di marks by yourself to see how 256 take come out from di structure, or see where di history ranking orders no agree.
• Town dem, Kingdom dem and DiasporaEvery town and diaspora place the corpus names, plotted where a coordinate is verified.
• ChronologyThe corpus's dated chronology, from deep background to the present, each event graded by how well it is sourced.
• Concept GraphThe corpus as a graph of documents and the links between them, centred on whichever one you open.
• GalleryIllustrations and archive images from across the corpus, filterable by source or subject.
• Àmì: tool dem for tone and diacriticsLook up the correct tone for a word, search by tone pattern, or restore diacritics to untoned text.
• LearnExercises wey come from di corpus itself: tone, diacritics, proverbs, di glossary, Odù notation, towns and rulers, and di timeline. Di progress dey save inside dis browser only, as di tradition take set am: depth and return, no be score or rank.
• AmòyeAsk Amòye anytin about Yoruba culture, history, language or tinking. Every answer go show where e come from: wetin dem read, wetin live search find, or Amòye im own analysis, dem go always label am.
• Wetin di corpus don establishEvery principle here come from one document and e carry di line wey e stand on, word for word. Open one make you see di reasoning and di source.
• DictionaryLook up any Yorùbá word: part of speech, pronunciation, senses and examples from the bundled Wiktionary.
• Corpus GlossaryThe corpus's own concepts explained in place: cosmology, Ifá, òrìṣà, social and historical terms.
• Òwe: ProverbsYorùbá proverbs wey come from di corpus, each one with di literal gloss and di idiomatic English wey di corpus give am. Nothing here na paraphrase.
• NamesYoruba personal names, with how dem dey break down, wetin dem mean, and di naming category wey dem belong to. Search no dey mind accent marks.