A Review of Ìṣura Ọ̀rọ̀ Yorùbá - A Comprehensive Yorùbá Thesaurus

Abstract

Yorùbá language Thesaurus, until the birth of this book, had not received an appreciable attention of language experts, lexicographers and language engineers among others, there are many dictionaries in Yorùbá that have been written by language experts right from the time of Bishop Ajayi Crowther in 1843 till date but ÌṢURA Ọ̀RỌ̀ YORÙBÁ: A Comprehensive Yorùbá Thesaurus is the first descriptive thesaurus, which contains “vast array of synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms and hyponyms which, according to the author reflects the splendor of Yoruba language” (p. ix). This book is intended to serve as a repository of Yoruba language, and a rich trove of words, meanings and context, to serve as a comprehensive linguistic resource that provides a structured collection of synonyms and other categories in the Yoruba language.

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