Lucumí language
| Lucumí | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Cuba |
Native speakers |
None[1] (liturgical language) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
luq |
| Glottolog |
lucu1238[2] |
Lucumí is a Yoruba dialect and the liturgical language of Santería in Cuba.[3][4] It is sometimes known as Yorùbá.[5]
See also
- Diaspora language
- Lucumí people
- Santería
- Habla Congo, a similar liturgical language based on Kongo
- Haitian Vodoun Culture Language
References
- ↑ Lucumí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Lucumi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ George Brandon. Santeria from Africa to the New World. Indiana University Press. p. 56.
- ↑ Wirtz, Kristina. 2014. Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-11905-2
- ↑ "Lucumi: A Language of Cuba (Ethnologue)". Retrieved 10 March 2010.
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