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May 29, 2017

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USE OF NUMBERS, CALCULATIONS AND DATES IN YORUBA.

F or years, even before the arrival of Europeans, Yoruba had created a numerical system used for daily economic transactions, events marking, measurements, time-keeping, and record purposes. It is a time tested, error proof numerical system. The numeral on the face value looks simple, but a critical examination of it, shows its complexity. It is based on vigesimal (vice-nary), which uses both addition and subtraction to express numbers after. Yoruba numeral has both Ordinal and Cardinal, which makes arithmetic of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division possible. The numeral made timing (when no mechanical watch) and measurements (when there were no complex calibrated gauges) possible, above all, it made documentation and record-keeping of events in the times past plausible. The cardinal numbers in Yoruba numeral are the regular numbers use i...

ORIKI NI ILE YORUBA.

Oriki je asa kan ti o je iran Yoruba l’ogun pupo, eyi si mu won yato si awon iran yoku patapata, ko si ojulowo omo kaaro- o- o- jiire , ti ko ni oriki, yala oriki orile ni tabi oriki idile ati paapaa oriki oruko.Oriki je awon oro isiri ti awon Yoruba maa n fi yin ara won tabi eni ti inu won ba dun si. Orisirisi iran ti won maa n ki ojulowo omo Yoruba mo niwonyi; iran Alaran, Aagberi, Olu-oje, Osulakesan, Ijamogbo, Onikoyi, Oko irese, Ajisola, Ologbin-in, Opomulero, Olofa, Olokun-Esin, Olufe, Elerin, Ijese, Iloko, Orin, Aresa. Oriki orile ni ewi alohun ti o n so nipa itan awon baba nla eni ni ile Yoruba, idile ti won ti se wa,orirun iran, ise akin ti won ti gbe ile aye se, ise iran naa ati beebee lo. Oriki idile a maa so nipa irisi iran, isesi, eewo iran, ise iran, aleebu iran ati beebee lo. Oruko oriki ni oruko keji ti awon Yoruba maa n fun omo ni ojo isomoloruko yala okunrin tabi obinrin bi apeere; Ajoke, Amope, Isola, Atoke, Ajao, Arike, Abike, Ajani .Aimoye awon omo wa ...

History Of Yoruba (The Talking Drum)

The Talking drum is an hourglass-shaped drum from West Africa , whose pitch can be regulated to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech. It has two drumheads connected by leather tension cords, which allow the player to modulate the pitch of the drum by squeezing the cords between their arm and body. A skilled player is able to play whole phrases. Most talking drums sound like a human humming depending on the way you play. Similar hourglass-shaped drums are found in Asia , but they are not used to mimic speech, although the idakka is used to mimic vocal music Hourglass-shaped talking drums are some of the oldest instruments used by West African griots [2] and their history can be traced back to the Yoruba people , the Ghana Empire [3] and the Hausa people . The Yoruba people of south western Nigeria and Benin and the Dagomba of northern Ghana ) have developed a highly sophisticated genre of griot music centering on the talking drum . [ citation needed ] ...

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