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Yoruba names with v. Oríkì praise poetry names are also common in Yoruba culture. Olorun means God. Check this if you wish distinguish between unstressed lowercase sounds and stressed uppercase sounds.

Oríkì praise poetry names are also common in Yoruba culture. Examples are Aina Ige Òjó Yetunde Abósèdé Taiwo Kehinde Ìdòwú Àlàbá Bàbátunde Joda Àjàyí Abiona Dada Ìdogbe Remilekun Yewande Olugbodi. These are attributive names parents give to their children to express the pride the child has brought to the family or to evoke admirable traits believed to be innate in the child by pedigree.

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These are attributive names parents give to their children to express the pride the child has brought to the family or to evoke admirable traits believed to be innate in the child by pedigree. He has come with joy. The Yoruba people are an ethnic group of southwestern Nigeria and southern Benin in West Africa.

The tiger has no indigenous name in Yoruba. Some of these are discussed below. What cannot be found in the culture cannot be found in their language except coined or loaned words perhaps.

Yoruba names are traditionally classified into five categories. Wealth has been mixed with love. Dont ever leave me.