Data Sources

This page lists every source the archive has drawn on.

Wikiquote, Yoruba proverbs. Wikiquote's Yoruba corpus is licensed CC BY-SA. Òwe Yòòbá uses Yoruba text from Wikiquote and writes all English translations independently, so that the archive's own corpus can remain uniformly CC BY 4.0. Wikiquote is cited in source_attribution for the entries where it was used.

Personal and elder contributions. Named contributors are credited by display name. Family and community elders in the Yoruba-speaking regions of southwestern Nigeria have provided both text and usage guidance.

Print references (see-also citations only). Delano, Owe L'esin Oro (1966). Ajibola, Owe Yoruba (1947). Bamgbose, various. Sheba, various. These works are cited by number where a compiled entry overlaps, following normal scholarly practice.

Reference-only, pending permission. Owomoyela, The Good Person (2005). yoruba.unl.edu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. Both are cited but not reproduced pending outreach.