Yoruba

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Etymology

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ì- (nominalizing prefix) +‎ jẹ (to rove, to swim) +‎ (in) +‎ ubú (ocean, deep sea), literally The ones who swim in the deep sea

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Ìjẹ̀bú

  1. Ijebu people, a subgroup of Yoruba people who speak the Ìjẹ̀bú spoken variety in the Ede-Yoruba-Itsekiri continuum.
  2. A spoken variety closely related to that of the Yoruba language

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