Portuguese-Yorùbá Dictionary

Ten years after the launch of the Yorùbá-Portuguese Dictionary , José Beniste takes the opposite path and offers a complementary and revolutionary work.

Unlike extinct languages like Latin and archaic Greek, Yoruba is a living language, spoken in Nigeria, southern Benin, Togo, and Ghana by approximately 30 million people. In Brazil, it has managed to maintain itself significantly through the liturgy of the Candomblés originating from those regions, becoming one of the most faithful repositories of these traditions.

In this Portuguese-Yorùbá Dictionary , José Beniste continues a detailed study of the Yorùbá language, begun with the Yorùbá-Portuguese Dictionary (2011), which can be consulted to facilitate the organization of sentences and texts.

The author presents more than 18 thousand entries, more than 15 thousand examples of translated sentences, explanations of fundamental words, the grammatical category of words for guidance in the formation of sentences and grammatical rules.

In addition, the work includes a section with basic guidelines on the Yoruba language, including the alphabet, pronunciation, tonal system, elongated vowels, elision and assimilation, plural of words, grammatical gender, interrogative sentences, nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, numerals and general observations.

More than just a dictionary, the Portuguese-Yoruba Dictionary also functions as a Yoruba grammar.