rẹwà
| Yoruba Varieties and Languages - rẹwà (“to be beautiful, handsome”) | ||||
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| Language Family | Variety Group | Variety/Language | Location | Words |
| Proto-Itsekiri-SEY | Southeast Yoruba | Ìjẹ̀bú | Ìjẹ̀bú Òde | rẹwà |
| Ìkòròdú | rẹwà | |||
| Ṣágámù | rẹwà | |||
| Ẹ̀pẹ́ | rẹwà | |||
| Ìkálẹ̀ | Òkìtìpupa | hẹngwà | ||
| Ìlàjẹ | Mahin | hẹngwà, ghẹngwà | ||
| Oǹdó | Oǹdó | sẹngwà | ||
| Ọ̀wọ̀ | Ọ̀wọ̀ | sẹngwà | ||
| Usẹn | Usẹn | hẹngwà | ||
| Olùkùmi | Ugbódù | ègwà | ||
| Proto-Yoruba | Northwest Yoruba | Àwórì | Èbúté Mẹ́tà | rẹwà |
| Ẹ̀gbá | Abẹ́òkúta | rẹwà | ||
| Èkó | Èkó | rẹwà | ||
| Ìbàdàn | Ìbàdàn | rẹwà | ||
| Ìlọrin | Ìlọrin | rẹwà | ||
| Ọ̀yọ́ | Ọ̀yọ́ | rẹwà | ||
| Standard Yorùbá | Nàìjíríà | rẹwà | ||
| Bɛ̀nɛ̀ | rɛwà | |||
| Northeast Yoruba/Okun | Owé | Kabba | hunwà | |
| Note: This amalgamation of terms comes from a number of different academic papers focused on the unique varieties and languages spoken in the Yoruboid dialectal continuum which extends from eastern Togo to southern Nigeria. The terms for spoken varieties, now deemed dialects of Yorùbá in Nigeria (i.e. Southeast Yorùbá, Northwest Yorùbá, Central Yorùbá, and Northeast Yorùbá), have converged with those of Standard Yorùbá leading to the creation of what can be labeled Common Yorùbá (Funṣọ Akere, 1977). It can be assumed that the Standard Yorùbá term can also be used in most Nigerian varieties alongside native terms, especially amongst younger speakers. This does not apply to the other Nigerian Yoruboid languages of Ìṣẹkírì and Olùkùmi, nor the Èdè Languages of Benin and Togo. | ||||