Category:Yoruba terms by usage
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Yoruba terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.
- Category:Yoruba archaic terms: Yoruba terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Yoruba childish terms: Yoruba terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
- Category:Yoruba colloquialisms: Yoruba terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
- Category:Yoruba dated terms: Yoruba terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
- Category:Yoruba derogatory terms: Yoruba terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
- Category:Yoruba higher register terms: Yoruba terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
- Category:Yoruba humorous terms: Yoruba terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
- Category:Yoruba informal terms: Yoruba terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
- Category:Yoruba nonstandard terms: Yoruba terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
- Category:Yoruba offensive terms: Yoruba terms that are typically considered to offend people.
- Category:Yoruba poetic terms: Yoruba terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
- Category:Yoruba proscribed terms: Yoruba terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
- Category:Yoruba royal terms: Yoruba terms used only by royalty.
- Category:Yoruba slang: Yoruba colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
- Category:Yoruba terms with archaic senses: Yoruba terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Yoruba terms with historical senses: Yoruba terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
- Category:Yoruba terms with obsolete senses: Yoruba terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
- Category:Yoruba terms with rare senses: Yoruba rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
- Category:Yoruba terms with uncertain meaning: Yoruba terms whose meaning is unknown or disputed.
- Category:Yoruba terms with uncommon senses: Yoruba uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
- Category:Yoruba trademarks: Yoruba terms that identify legal entities, their products and services, by means of legal protection — to some extent, in a number of jurisdictions — against unauthorized use of the terms.
- Category:Yoruba vulgarities: Yoruba terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
Subcategories
This category has the following 22 subcategories, out of 22 total.
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- Yoruba childish terms (0 c, 1 e)
- Yoruba colloquialisms (0 c, 5 e)
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- Yoruba derogatory terms (0 c, 33 e)
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- Yoruba humorous terms (0 c, 2 e)
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- Yoruba poetic terms (0 c, 2 e)
- Yoruba proscribed terms (0 c, 7 e)
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- Yoruba royal terms (0 c, 1 e)
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- Yoruba terms with archaic senses (0 c, 15 e)
- Yoruba terms with historical senses (0 c, 41 e)
- Yoruba terms with obsolete senses (0 c, 18 e)
- Yoruba terms with uncertain meaning (0 c, 1 e)
- Yoruba terms with uncommon senses (0 c, 8 e)
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- Yoruba vulgarities (0 c, 8 e)