Poetic Manuscript on Yoruba Homonym Written in Arabic Meaning by Sheikh Abubakar Agbarigidoma: Presentation and Linguistics Analysis

and intellectual fields. The archive of Sheikh Abubakr Agbarigidoma is one of these archives, which contains manuscripts with extensive scientific and intellectual dimensions. Among them is a manuscript of poetry that has similar pronunciation but different meaning from Yoruba words that were written in their Arabic sense. The importance of this study lies in the Yoruba verbal tributaries contained in this poetry, which reveal the extent of the wealth of linguistic vocabulary that the Yoruba language enjoys. The problem of this research stems from the need to know the phonetic symbols that characterize words with different meanings, without relying entirely on the situational or verbal context. Accordingly, this article aims to unveil the extent of the contribution of our ancient scholars in serving the scientific heritage, and the verbal richness and moral breadth that the Yoruba language enjoys, along with the extent of the necessity of knowing symbols that help distinguish between the pronunciation of Yoruba words in order to know their different meanings. This article answers questions, including: What is the contribution of Ilorin scientists to serving scientific heritage? How can the identity of the Yoruba language and its verbal wealth be proven? To what extent does the reader of this poetry need to know the symbols that have been established to distinguish between the meanings of Yoruba words that are similar in pronunciation? This article adopts both historical and analytical methods