Yoruba - Population, Language, Projects, Products and Services on Computers and Internet - An Update by Olamijulo S.K. HAEP HOME             PEOPLE  COOP BOOK           YORUBA KEYBOARD YORUBA DEV COVER PAGE      CONTACT US First Published June 2003,          Updated July 31 2004 YORUBA JULY  2004 WORLD POPULATION ESTIMATES:  Above 100 MILLION. Please contact and encourage as many authors, publishers and webmasters as you can to correct and update very outdated Yoruba population figures still being used in many otherwise good publications on various websites across the world. SOME DETAILS: NIGERIA ----About 30 million located in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Oshun, Ekiti, Ondo, Edo, Delta, Kwara, Kogi and other States of today's Nigeria. Refer in part to CIA World Factbook 2004 using July 2oo4 available data. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ni.html#People BENIN REPUBLIC Source: The French Encyclopaedic Dictionary Larouse (1988) TOGO Source: The French Encyclopaedic Dictionary Larouse (1988) Yoruba first and second language speakers and their descendants number a total of many millions in the combination of SIERRA -LEONE, GHANA,  LIBERIA, IVORY- COAST, GABON, EGYPT, LIBYA, ALGERIA, MOROCCO, SUDAN, OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES. SAUDI-ARABIA and THE MIDDLE EAST. Yoruba first and second language speakers, descendants with Yoruba ancestry and surviving culture currently number many millions combined in USA and CANADA; BRAZIL, VENEZUELA, COLUMBIA, BOLIVIA, MEXICO, OTHER SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES; CUBA,HAITI, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, JAMAICA, PUERTO RICO,  TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, OTHER CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; UNITED KINGDOM, WESTERN EUROPE, EASTERN EUROPE, RUSSIA; CHINA,TAIWAN,THAILAND, PHILIPPINES,INDIA, PAKISTAN and OTHER ASIAN  COUNTRIES. UPDATED DETAILS at http://www.hopeafricaepublisher.com/ywp0704.html ONE SUMMARY OF YORUBA HISTORY ON THE INTERNET FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA in USA http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/history/giblinstate.html#yoruba PRIORITY NEEDS ASSESSMENTS: There is a priority need for cooperation to compile and publish soonest possible a central modern, comprehensive Yoruba-English -Yoruba Digital Dictionary acceptable and easily affordable to all potential users and students of Yoruba Language all over the world. It is ideal if such a dictionary could be accessible for download by all for free, at least online. That way it could be easily downloaded by anyone with web access anywhere and made available to individuals, schools and other institutions that can make very good use of it but majority of whom would otherwise be unable to pay for access either because they are unable to afford it or because of practical logistic barriers to effect payment.  A recent update of my ongoing search on Yoruba world population, language, projects, products and services on Computers and the Internet, known to me or accessible through the Internet has just been undertaken. Up until now, one cannot find any complete comprehensive modern Yoruba Digital Dictionary available to browse freely online or use for proofing documents on computers on or offline. Individual and group initiatives, with keen healthy competition must continue to be recognized encouraged and rewarded.  The current search update has however reconfirmed the urgent need for improved, more effective web based avenues for communication, collaboration and standardization between IT Experts, Technocrats, Linguists and other Experts with invited, welcome, useful inputs from native, proficient Yoruba Language Users, Students of Yoruba Language, Culture and Development, Authors, Publishers and other interested parties from all over the world. OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY ILE-IFE NIGERIA AS YORUBA LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE  DEVELOPMENT HOME BASE APEX  INSTITUTION. As current solid good work continues  to be contemplated and done all over the world, it is suggested that all Yorubas   most willingly accept, rally round, assist and empower Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria to effectively serve as the Yoruba Language and People World Development  Home Base Apex Institution. This is good for much needed rapid conversion of valuable, still yet locally available, reliable Yoruba oral tradition into digital data. Such data can then enjoy efficient secure storage by the institution. The stored data can in turn be made accessible to Yoruba students and workers from all over the world. In addition, the Institution can collectively offer enlightened leadership for focus on worthy priorities and historical continuity. Individuals come and go but good institutions do survive to perpetuate and advance every good contribution to human development after predictable inevitable physical departures of contributing individuals from the local and world scene. What suggestions do you have on the best ways to go about securing a better more effective, more global, active web communication and cooperation for Yoruba language and people development by all enthusiasts and gifted workers with something to contribute? Please reply by e-mail to publisher@hopeafricaepublisher.com A PUBLISHED PERCEPTION OF YORUBA LANGUAGE NEEDS From the University of Wisconsin USA: 1) Yoruba-English and English-Yoruba Dictionary 2) Yoruba Reference Grammar for Learners 3) Advanced Level Yoruba Textbook 4) Workbooks for the existing first and second year Yoruba textbooks 5) Web-based courses for learning Yoruba 6) Video tapes for learning Yoruba 7) CD-ROM for advanced level 8) Pocket Yoruba-English and English-Yoruba Dictionary 9) Role Play Cards for Yoruba Learners 10) Workbooks for the Yoruba Reader http://african.lss.wisc.edu/nalrc/prog-serv/nat-coord/-natneedass.html SOME PROJECTS, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ARE AT THE WEB LINKS LISTED BELOW. Please feel free to inform us of others that should be included in the list by e-mail to        publisher@hopeafricaepublisher.com 1. Yoruba at D-Net Communications          http://www.dnetcom.com 2. Yoruba at University of Wisconsin- Madison          http://african.lss.wisc.edu/yoruba/   3. Yoruba at Hope Africa E-Publisher.com         http://www.hopeafricaepublisher.com 4. Obafemi Awolowo University - Ile-Ife, Nigeria. University Website:  http://www.oauife.edu.ng/ Contact:                   Professor  Kunle Kehinde                          lokehinde@yahoo.com 5. Dr. Kayode Fakinlede      Proponent of Historically Significant Yoruba Decimal Counting System very suitable for      current Information and Communication Technology Age.       http://www.lagosforum.com/comment.php?NR=976    Author " Modern Practical Dictionary:Yoruba-English,English-Yoruba" which can be procured                  from   jfakinlede@aol.com 6. KONYIN       Producer  of very user friendly Mutilingual Nigerian Languages Keyboard with Unicode Compatible Fonts. The Unicode Compatible Yoruba fonts await anticipated incorporation of Yoruba tonal signs. You can learn more at the websites : http://www.konyin.com http://www.lancorltd.com             7. AFARA        A  Yoruba Language IT initiative in Nigeria           http://www.pin.itgo.com/afara/index.htm    8.  Learn Yoruba.com  From Ontario Canada            http://www.learnyoruba.com/ 9. YorubaWorld           http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yorubaworld/            http://www.kazicom.cwc.net/yorubaworld/frame.htm 10. National Association of Yoruba Descendants           http://www.yorubanation.org 11. Omo - Oduduwa eGroup         omo-oduduwa@yahoogroups.com 12. Yoruba-Community eGroup        yoruba-community@yahoogroups.com 13. Egbe Isokan Yoruba       http://www.yoruba.org/ 14. 21st Century Yoruba     http://www.nubacom.com/21CenturyYoruba/21stCenturyYoruba.html 15. Yoruba in Vienna, Austria         http://www.aloba.at/eng/index-e.html 16.  Awo Yoruba Dictionary- Parts I, II, III, IV (PDF) Format         http://www.awostudycenter.com/classroom.html 17.  Yoruba Resources From Andrew Cunningham - Australia         Yoruba Unicode Keyboard Layouts at URL           http://www.openroad.net.au/languages/files    18.  Bisharat.Net          http://www.bisharat.net A 12n-forum: African languages on computers and the Internet           http://lists.kabissa.org/mailman/listinfo/a12n-forum 19. Yoruba - English - Yoruba Digital Dictionary Development by African Language Resource Council (ALRC) based at University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with Prof. Yiwola Awoyale from the University of Ilorin in Nigeria and Akin Akinlabi From Rutgers University.             http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~seidlf/ALRC.html   20. University of Georgia Edeyede Project : Internet Living Dictionaries English-Yoruba Dictionary, Yoruba-English Dictionary At: http://www.yoruba.gasou.edu/template.php?a=13 This project is funded by the  United States Department of Education and Dr.Olaoba F. Arasanyin is the main contact.             21.  Yale Center for International and Area Studies and Dr. Ore Yusuf from University of Ilorin, Nigeria working on Yoruba Dictionary Project and Yoruba Linguistics.        a)  http://www.yale.edu/ycias/scholars.htm        b)   http://www.yale.edu/ycias/african/ygrall/yoruba/linguistics.html 22.  Say IT in Yoruba     British Educational Communications and Technology Agency          http://www.becta.org.uk/technology/sayit/yoruba.pdf 23. Yoruba Language as Spoken in Cuba and Parts of USA- Lucumi    Vocabulary           http://www.seanet.com/~efunmoyiwa/vocab.html   24.  Yoruba-Spanish-Yoruba Dictionary          http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bioenergylist/message/43 25.  Dictionary Usuel Yoruba to French            http://www.addall.com/Browse/Detail/0320004716.html 26. Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to Memory          http://www.addall.com/Browse/Detail/0817307273.html 27. Yoruba Art on the Web.         a)  http://www.pas.org/About/HOF/olatunji.cfm          b) http://users.breathemail.net/patrickday/afrikart01.htm          c) http://www.africans-art.com/index.php3?action=page&id_art=958          d) http://home.att.net/~artsales/yoruba.htm 28. Some Additional Good Books at Addall.com:   http://www.addall.com/Browse/Info/FOREIGN_LANGUAGE_STUDY--14/African_Languages--716/YORUBA_LANGUAGE--61054 29.  A Dictionary Of The Yoruba Language          http://www.over2u.com/shop/product1653.html 30.  Dictionary Of The Yoruba Language from Nigerian University Press http://www.africabookcentre.com/acatalog/index.html?http%3A//www.africabookcentre.com/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Yoruba_148.html&CatalogBody 31. Yoruba -English-English-Yoruba Concise Dictionary By Olabiyi Yai http://www.whatwhywherewhenhow.com/world_culture_from_around_the_globe/Yoruba_Dictionary.html 32. Yoruba-English-Yoruba Dictionary From International Press Publications, Ontario Canada:  http://www.ippbooks.com/foreign.html 33. "First Illustrated Yoruba Dictionary" - Yoruba-English, English-Yoruba      From Queen's University, Kingston Canada       http://library.queensu.ca/inforef/dictionary/language.htm#yoruba 34. Yoruba Language Products at Yoruba.com         http://www.yoruba.com/ 35.  Yoruba Language Products at WorldLanguage.com        http://www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Yoruba.htm 36. Yoruba Translation at WorldLingo         http://www.technical-translations.net/languages/yoruba_translation.html    37. Languages on the web - Yoruba         http://www.languages-on-the-web.com/links/link-yoruba.htm        38. Yoruba at the University of Boston          http://www.bu.edu/africa/languagestudy/ 39. Yoruba at Howard University           http://www.founders.howard.edu/modlang/ 40. Yoruba at Michigan State University          http://www2.isp.msu.edu/africanstudies/afrilang.htm 41. Yoruba at University of Florida          http://web.africa.ufl.edu/academic/languages.html 42. Yoruba at University of Georgia          http://www.yale.edu/ycias/african/ygrall/yoruba/u-programs.html 43. Yoruba at Cornell University          http://www.asrc.cornell.edu 44. Yoruba at Indiana University          http://www.indiana.edu/~afrist/courses.htm 45. Yoruba at Ohio State University          http://aaas.ohio-state.edu/ 46. Yoruba at Stanford University        http://www.stanford.edu/dept/AFR/ 47. Yoruba at Temple University        http://www.temple.edu/CLA/ 48. Yoruba University of California at Berkeley         http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/africa/ 49. Yoruba at University of California at Los Angeles       http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics 50. Yoruba at University of California at San Diego        http://ling.ucsd.edu/llp/L19.bks.html 51. Yoruba at University of London       http://www.soas.ac.uk/Africa/courseunits/courseunits.html