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Ethnologue

Ethnologue is not too accurate for population numbers. The links are broken a lot of times, and they’re being used to inflate numbers on this page. There is no source that says they’re 50,000,000 Yorubas 2600:1017:B016:2B70:48C0:2988:8AC2:85 (talk) 02:48, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why was there recently a "name" section added when there was already an etymology section?

Does the troll involved in that edit know the meaning of etymology? I guess not. One, there is no need for a name section when there is am etymology section. Two, why didn't the name section appear for other ethnicities in Nigeria? Not even etymology section appears for them, should I start adding? Sounds like a great idea. Thirdly, the name section was created for a troll attempt with no source, the person who edited didn't read what they sourced and what it said. Lastly, I will be reporting troll attempts now. Researcherofgreatness (talk) 02:29, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yoroba people are from the great race Ewe

Days to days from journalism and investigation Rap i find informations that explain black Africans unity ( structured ) from the old time as one people in differents branchs ( nower days ). Yoroba language is the mixing of Ewe language and fon language. And fon language is the mixing of Ewe language and the Yewe language (ancestors religion ). Kotafon, Guin, mina, Adja are also from the great race Ewe who is more that ewe ethnic group. Komavo wednesday, 29 may 2024, 6:18am.

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Yoruba (disambiguation) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 11:03, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The phrase 'in ṣitu'

This is obviously meant to be the Latin phrase 'in situ'. The 'ṣ' appears to come from the Yoruba alphabet and is equivalent to IPA /ʃ/. It's wrong to use the Yoruba alphabet for Latin phrases in an English-language article and it's the wrong sound anyway (the classical pronunciation was /ˈsi.tuː/). 2A01:4B00:8A10:7A00:3005:9A97:F137:CC5 (talk) 09:09, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]