Good
day readers
Today we are going to treat a very interesting
topic, and I believe you are all going to enjoy and at the same time
understand every bit of it.
Last
topic was on INTONATION IN YORUBA LANGUAGE, where we discuss all the three
basic tonals of the Yoruba language.
Today we
are going to discuss THE YORUBA LANGUAGE ALPHABET.(AFABEETI EDE YORUBA)
Like
many other language, Yoruba language too have its own alphabets. In fact a very
interesting one. Unlike the English alphabet that have 26 letters Yoruba
language has 25 letters.
It will
interest you that there is great similarities between Yoruba language alphabet
and English language alphabet, the slight different is just the pronunciation
or let me call it the TONE.
Without
wasting much of your time, here are the 25 letters of Yoruba alphabet
A
B D E E
F G GB I H
J K L M N
O O P R S
S T U W Y
The
alphabets above are not pronounced as the English alphabet, when I make the
videos on youtube I will make more verbal explanation.
Let
me explain here first the pronunciations and tones of the above alphabets
A-
as
in tone (A)lphabet
B-
as
in tone (B)ig
D-
as in tone (D)egree
E-
as in tone (A)go
E-
as in tone (E)gg
F-
as in tone (F)ish
G-
as in tone (G)ive
GB-
as in tone (GBI) I cant think of any English word for this right now, you can
make a suggestion.
I-
as in tone (I)nstrument
H-
as in tone (H)istory there is a little similarity between alphabet I and H. but
they are not the same.
J-
as in tone (J)esus
K-
as in tone (K)ill
L-
as in tone (L)eave
M-as
in tone (M)inute
N-
as in tone (N)eat
O-
as in tone (O)ld
O-
as in tone (O)rganize
P-
as in tone (P)ick
R-
as in tone (R)ead
S-
as in (S)eat
S-
as in tone (SH)ift
T-
as in tone (T)heif
U-
as in tone w(OU)nd
W-
as in tone (W)eek
Y-
as in tone (Y)awn
By
now we should be able to identify all the Yoruba alphabet tones. Alphabet is
called AFABEETI in Yoruba language.
Next
topic we are going to discuss about the uses of the afabeeti Yoruba
Like
we have A for Aple in English
So
we have A for Aja (dog)
See
you next time….
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