An In-Depth Look Into Lucumi and Yoruba In Comparison
In Matanzas, Cuba, a few kids play around, generally wavering between two dialects – Spanish and another they call Lucumi. Put something aside for a few contrasts, Lucumi is our own Nigerian Yoruba. The general population that speak Lucumi are the Lucumi individuals – the relatives of individuals detracted from Nigeria by method for Badagry to the Americas. In any case, Cuba isn't the main place with individuals that communicate in Yoruba on the planet. The Nagô individuals of Brazil and Aku individuals of Sierra Leone are additionally the relatives of Yoruba slaves.
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Between the 1800s, in excess of 3.5 million slaves were dispatched from Nigeria to the Americas. This number represented more than 30% of all slaves exchanged. While the slave exchange was nullified by the British Parliament in 1807, slaves called the Saros started coming back to Nigeria from Cuba and Brazil in 1830, while some of them settled in Ghana. African slaves achieving Nigeria from Brazil were all the more normally known as Agudas. In any case, a noteworthy level of them stayed in Brazil, Cuba and America.
Doherty Villa (Built for J. A. Doherty around 1915) in Brazilian Style. Photograph credit: Kelechi Anabaraonye
Throughout the years, Lucumi has turned into a considerable measure diverse in articulation and tone from its source, Yoruba. However, this distinction isn't a noteworthy deviation from the dialect. Because of an absence of documentation of the composed Yoruba dialect pre-pioneer aces and an overwhelming Spanish impact, Lucumi is its own particular dialect now. Yoruba, in contrast with Spanish, does not have the letters: c, ch, ll, ñ, q, v, x, z. Òrìṣà, a sort of god, is articulated Orichá in Lucumi. A nonattendance of "sh" in the Spanish dialect is supplanted with "ch".
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As in Spanish, intonations exist just on the second to last syllable, stripping endlessly the visual embellishments and tone controls in the first Yoruba dialect. Different words are somewhat extraordinary. For instance, Ijoko (a seat) is Iyoko. Contentions have been made that Lucumi is the nearest we may get to "unique Yoruba" and it is conceivable to reestablish the words in Spanish composition back to standard Yoruba, particularly as the broadly embraced Yoruba is current and shows some new dialect highlights contrasted with the old.
Doherty Villa (Built for J. A. Doherty around 1915) in Brazilian Style. Photograph credit: Kelechi Anabaraonye
The nearness of Lucumi and the closeness of the dialect to Yoruba is a wonder in itself. After decades, there are a people with a common root and shared dialect living in various parts of the world. So comparative but then so unique. Lucumi speakers wherever in Cuba and different territories of the world talk the dialect and any Yoruba speaker would.
While we as a whole offer a typical home in Nigeria, things and structures that were intended to help one to remember the birthplaces and the purpose behind removal are quickly vanishing. The Ilojo Bar, otherwise called 'Casa do Fernandez', a structure worked by returned slaves, was annihilated in 2016. Language specialist and educator Kola Tubosun expounded on the vanishing territory of Yoruba legacy and the disappointment of the legislature to keep national landmarks. Today, Kelechi Anabaraonye, a history fan, reports the historical backdrop of Lagos through photographs and is an extremist for bits of our past to remain and make for good stories for what's to come.
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Between the 1800s, in excess of 3.5 million slaves were dispatched from Nigeria to the Americas. This number represented more than 30% of all slaves exchanged. While the slave exchange was nullified by the British Parliament in 1807, slaves called the Saros started coming back to Nigeria from Cuba and Brazil in 1830, while some of them settled in Ghana. African slaves achieving Nigeria from Brazil were all the more normally known as Agudas. In any case, a noteworthy level of them stayed in Brazil, Cuba and America.
Doherty Villa (Built for J. A. Doherty around 1915) in Brazilian Style. Photograph credit: Kelechi Anabaraonye
Throughout the years, Lucumi has turned into a considerable measure diverse in articulation and tone from its source, Yoruba. However, this distinction isn't a noteworthy deviation from the dialect. Because of an absence of documentation of the composed Yoruba dialect pre-pioneer aces and an overwhelming Spanish impact, Lucumi is its own particular dialect now. Yoruba, in contrast with Spanish, does not have the letters: c, ch, ll, ñ, q, v, x, z. Òrìṣà, a sort of god, is articulated Orichá in Lucumi. A nonattendance of "sh" in the Spanish dialect is supplanted with "ch".
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As in Spanish, intonations exist just on the second to last syllable, stripping endlessly the visual embellishments and tone controls in the first Yoruba dialect. Different words are somewhat extraordinary. For instance, Ijoko (a seat) is Iyoko. Contentions have been made that Lucumi is the nearest we may get to "unique Yoruba" and it is conceivable to reestablish the words in Spanish composition back to standard Yoruba, particularly as the broadly embraced Yoruba is current and shows some new dialect highlights contrasted with the old.
Doherty Villa (Built for J. A. Doherty around 1915) in Brazilian Style. Photograph credit: Kelechi Anabaraonye
The nearness of Lucumi and the closeness of the dialect to Yoruba is a wonder in itself. After decades, there are a people with a common root and shared dialect living in various parts of the world. So comparative but then so unique. Lucumi speakers wherever in Cuba and different territories of the world talk the dialect and any Yoruba speaker would.
While we as a whole offer a typical home in Nigeria, things and structures that were intended to help one to remember the birthplaces and the purpose behind removal are quickly vanishing. The Ilojo Bar, otherwise called 'Casa do Fernandez', a structure worked by returned slaves, was annihilated in 2016. Language specialist and educator Kola Tubosun expounded on the vanishing territory of Yoruba legacy and the disappointment of the legislature to keep national landmarks. Today, Kelechi Anabaraonye, a history fan, reports the historical backdrop of Lagos through photographs and is an extremist for bits of our past to remain and make for good stories for what's to come.
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