TOPIC1; INTONATION TONES IN YORUBA LANGUAGE

Good day dear reader

Today we are going to discuss about the Yoruba language.

Yoruba language is a tonal language which makes the language to be very unique, the appearance of some of the alphabet are far different from the way we pronounce them. before you can understand Yoruba language you have to understand this tone.

It will be very easy to learn if you have access to voice which i will post subsequently on youtube, when i post it, i will share the link here.

the basic Yoruba tone are three[3] in number

1. DO
2. RE
3. MI
   
   The picture above show more illustration  of the use of the tonal sign.

DO and MI are the most common and easy to learn of the three tonal sign, RE is somehow hard to learn for beginners bacuase of the absence of the sign.

lets start with:      'DO'

examples of words that consist the DO tone include the following:

• DO-DO
• A-li
• i-FE
• A-DU-ke
• A-PE-ke
• O-be

        etc
the bolded part of the words above are the signs of DO tone. i made you of common words for better understanding

next is 'RE'

examples of words that contain RE

• BU-mi
• SE-UN
• GBO-GBO
• O-le
• A-gba-RA

etc

last but not the least is the 'MI' tone

examples of words with MI include the followinmg:

• DU-PE
• WA-LE
• FUN-mi
• TA-yo
• TI-TI

etc

some words may consist all the three tones while some may contain only two,
examples of words that consist of the three tones are the following:

• A[RE]-DE[MI]-BO[DO]-WA[MI]-LE[MI]
• O[RE]-LU[MI]-WA[MI]-SE[DO]YI[MI]

THIS WILL BE ALL FOR NOW....

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