Is it realy possible for any yoruba person ( educated or UNeducated ) to converse for 5 minutes without injecting some English words ? Can you? and by the way through the process of 'osmosis' some English words have become yoruba words.e.g. BUS STOP , and what is the yoruba word for say------SHOE, CAR, etc. just wondering thats all --(not making a federal case)

I agree it b/c we dont really know how to speak yoruba. Even in movies u cant really find a yoruba movie without any english word.

Shoe- Bata
Car- Oko Oju ono


Lets make this a game!!!
Whats the Yoruba word for:

- Computer
- Television
-Cell Phone

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@Moremi
Television - Ero Amohunmaworan
Cell Phone - Ero Ibanisoro Alagbeka

@eyi-mofe
For me it dependson who I am conversing with. I find when I call Naija, my Yoruba flows unbroken like pure water no English words. However, when talking with Yoruba Londoners, everyone mixes their lingo with English.

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BATA is the name of the first shoe company in NIgeria it is an english manufacturer of shoes. SANI your defination of TV ,cell phone are DESCRIPTIVE Those are not names.

Ok new school yoruba
phone - ago
Cell phone - ago owo


My yoruba is gangsta these days am so ashamed of myself, I remember the day me and my grandma would rap in yoruba now, I have to think b4 I use certain words. Am bad, infact am so bad, from now on, I will only talk to yoruba people in yoruba. SUE ME

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What about radio?
Ero kini yen o?

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lol sis Nne baby u dey funny oo

eyi-mofe, the names I have given are actually in use right now. If you listened to Yoruba newscasts, or read Yoruba language newspapers you would know this.

cheerio

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Car Oko Ayokele
Train Oko Ojurin
Aeroplane Oko Ofurufu
Sun Oorun
Moon Osupa
Stars Irawo
Needle Abere
Nail Iso
News Iroyin

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Most of the name we Yorubas use will have to be descriptive names because, most of this items are new and never existed when our language was been developed.

@Vince, Radio will be "Ero asoro magbesi" (do-re re-do mi-do-do)
Bus Stop is "Ibudoko" (re-do-mi-do)

You know what, I bet I know the entire Yoruba name for any item in English. I want yall to challenge me, ask me anything you wanna know its Yoruba name.

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BOXERS-Awon abese kuuu bi ojo!(I just love that one)

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The Ultimate
We Are Part And Parcel Of Everything
We Are The Cosmos
We Are Life
We Are Love
We Are All That Is
We Are The Creator Of The Dance,As Well As The Dancer

Just looking around the office,........what is filing cabunet in yoruba?
", what is 'translation' in proper yoruba?

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