Yoruba people

==Names==
As an [[Ethnic group|ethnic]] [[description]], the word "Yoruba" has roots in a term borrowed by Europeans in the earlier part of the [[19th century#Africa|19th century]] and incorporated into usage in reference to the [[Oyo Empire]] of the time.<ref name="trinidad19">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d2q5o25NNfcC&pg=PA19-20 |title=Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to Memory |author=Maureen Warner-Lewis |page=19 |isbn=978-976-640-054-5 |publisher=University of the West Indies |year=1997}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Law |first1=Robin, Professor of African History |title=The Oyo Empire, C.1600-c.1836: A West African Imperialism in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade |date=1977 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-822709-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U4VvQgAACAAJ}}</ref> In his book, [[Hugh Clapperton]] began to subject the word to early changes in its evolution from the existing [[Hausa people|Hausa]] [[exonym]] Yaraba, to "Yourriba" as was his customary way of addressing the [[Alaafin|King of Oyo]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9chIAAAAcAAJ&dq=%22Dahomey%2C+and+inquired+if+the+king+of+Yourriba+put+to+death+such+a+number+of+people+at+his+customs+as+at+those+of+Dahomey.%22&pg=PA41|title=Journal of a Second Expedition Into the Interior of Africa; to which is Added the Journal of Richard Lander from Kano to the Sea-Coast|author=Hugh Clapperton|page=41|publisher=John Murray|year=1829}}</ref> Further evolution of the ethnic description to the larger ethnolinguistic group of which Oyo is a part is the subsequent work of 19th century missionaries who categorized all members of the ethnolinguistic group by "Yoruba" and helped incorporate it into the language of the Oyo people as their own self-definition.<ref name="trinidad20a">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d2q5o25NNfcC&pg=PA20|title=Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to Memory|author=Maureen Warner-Lewis|page=19|isbn=978-976-640-054-5|publisher=University of the West Indies|year=1997}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of the Yoruba 2016 |date=June 20, 2016 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-02156-4 |pages=3–5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jep3DAAAQBAJ&dq=%22the+elite+popularized+the+idea+of+%22&pg=PA5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Boscolo |first1=Cristina |title=Odún: Discourses, Strategies, and Power in the Yorùbá Play of Transformation |date=2009 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-420-2681-0 |page=96 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LPl5DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22word+yoruba%22&pg=PA96}}</ref> Competing terms such as [[Nagos|Nago]], [[Lucumi people|Lucumi]], and [[Oku people (Sierra Leone)|Aku]], used in identifying Oyo's ethnolinguistic family, have not reached the same level of popular usage as the term "Yoruba" though widely used in areas where ethnic sub-populations themselves can be found.<ref name="trinidad20">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d2q5o25NNfcC&pg=PA19-20|title=Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to Memory|author=Maureen Warner-Lewis|page=20|isbn=978-976-640-054-5|publisher=University of the West Indies|year=1997}}</ref>

In comparison, the phrase of intraethnolinguistic origin used by the Yoruba people is "Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire", literally meaning, "The People who ask 'Good morning, did you wake up well?" This is in reference to the culture of greetings identifiable within the [[Yoruba culture]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of the Yoruba |date=June 20, 2016 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-02156-4 |pages=144–145 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jep3DAAAQBAJ&q=greetings%20for%20virtually%20every%20kind%20of%20%20situation}}</ref> Through parts of coastal West Africa, where Yorubas have been found, they have carried their culture of lauding one another with greetings of different forms, applicable in different situations, along with them. Another term used is, "Ọmọ Oòduà", meaning "The Children of [[Oduduwa]]", referencing the semi-legendary king who is believed to be the founder and ancestor of the modern Yoruba people.<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of African History 3-Volume Set |date=July 4, 2013 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-135-45670-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=umyHqvAErOAC&q=%22Omo%20oodua%22}}</ref> The Yorubas are also called Alaata in some Akan-speaking communities.