The Yoruba Names Project is a documentation project set up to ensure the transfer of language and cultural resources of Yoruba language into a publicly accessible online format. It was launched on February 19, 2016. The project was first conceived in 2005 as an undergraduate thesis in the Department of Linguistics and African Language, University of Ibadan, Nigeria by Kola Tubosun then an undergraduate. At the time, the database, called "A Multimedia Dictionary of Yoruba Names" only had about 1000 names curated on a compact disk, with meaning and pronunciation. More information...
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