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Topic 5: THE YORUBA LANGUAGE NUMERALS (Òñkà Yorùbá)

Hi readers.

Today we are going to discuss about numerals in Yoruba Language.

The Yoruba language just like any other language has its own numerals. And it's very unique.

They use the numerals/numbers in several means and ways of those daily life's.

They use the number in business, in counting, in calendar, among many other important aspect of life.

Below are the English and Yoruba Language number

Number    English.     Yoruba.
1.                  One.           Ookan
2.                  Two.           Eéjì/Èjì
3.                  Three.        Eéta
4.                   Four.          Eérin
5.                  Five.             Aárún
6.                  Six.               Eéfà
7.                  Seven.          Eéje
8.                  Eight.           Eéjo
9.                  Nine.            Eésán
10.                Ten.              Eéwa
11.                 Eleven.        Oókànlá
12.                 Twelve.       Eéjìlá
13.               Thirteen.       Eétàlá
14.               Fourteen.      Eérìnlá
15.               Fifteen.          Aárùndínlógún
16.               Sixteen.         Eérìndínlógún
17.              Seventeen.     Eétàdínlógún
18.               Eighteen.       Eéjìdínlógún
19.              Nineteen.        Oókàndínlógún
20.              Twenty.           Ogún

In the next topic, we shall continue from twenty one (21) to (100) one hundred.

Bye for now

TOPIC 4. YORUBA CULTURE-(ASA YORUBA)

YORUBA CULTURE-(ASA YORUBA)

Like every other ethnic and society with history, Yoruba people south west Nigeria also have their own beautiful culture which the yoruba’s had spread all over the word.

As we all know that culture is the total way of life of a person, either local or international, we all have a particular culture we are following and respected so much.

Aspect of culture include the following

1. clothing/dressing

2. greeting

3. eating

4. marriage/wedding ceremony

5. naming ceremony

6. festivals

Etc

    have countless cultures, total ways of a Yoruba culture can be found in their culture.

I don’t know about your tribe, but Yoruba believe so much in its culture.

 

    The culture of Yoruba that we are going to look at today is the greeting culture(asa ikini)

GREETING IN YORUBA-(ASA IKINI)

    Greeting is a very significant aspect of Yoruba culture, Yoruba place greeting in a very valuable positiong among other cultures.

    Greeting is not limited to exchanging pleasantries in Yoruba culture, it means more than that. It shows how much a wife respect the husband, how well the children also respect their parents.

Proper greetings and pleasantries gesture has been installed in the yorubas right from infancy. To the extent that these has become a notable aspect of a tipical Yoruba person.

There is different greetings for different occasions, and different greetings for different time of the day.

    The greetings can be break down into the following categories:

1. early morning

2. afternoon

3. night

4. ceremonial greetings

5. congratulatory greetings

6. sympathizing greets

7. friendships etc

Before  I end let us look at some greetings in Yoruba.

Early morning greeting:

Kaaro Oojire bi?

E ku ojumo

E ku idaji

E kaaro

E ku iyaleta

E ku ojumomo etc

Afternoon greetings

E kaasan

E ku irole

Night greetings

E kale

E ku asale

Any time greetings

E ku asiko yi o

E ku deede iwoyi

Etc.

Other forms of greetings will be posted soon. Watch out… I need to run now.

Drop your contribution on the comment box

TOPIC 3 THE YORUBA ALPHABET AND ITS MEANINGS

THE YORUBA LANGUAGE ALPHABET AND ITS MEANINGS

Today we are going to look at this very interesting topic about the Yoruba language alphabet and what they stand for.

the last topic focus on the explanation of the Yoruba alphabet and its tones, which I believe you all understand very well.

Lets start with some English alphabet

A for Apple

B for boy

Etc

Now in the Yoruba case, lets go from A to Y, as you know there is no Z in Yoruba language alphabet.

A----AJA

B----BATA

D----DOJE

E----EJO

E----EYE

F-----FILA

G-----GELE

GB---GBAGUDA

I----IGI

H----HAUSA

J----JAGUNJAGUN

K----KINIHUN

L----LABALABA

M----MAALU

N-----NANGUDU

O----OGONGO

O----OGEDE

P-----PEPEYE

S------SALUBATA

S-------SAGO

T------TAFATAFA

U-----UKU UKU

W----- WAHALA

Y-------YANMUYANMU

 In subsequent time, I will make the interpretations of what the above words in Yoruba means. But for the main time, make sure you read and recite them daily just the same way your learned the English alphabet and what it stands for.

This topic is going to help your intonation and pronunciation and don’t forget  to leave ypour questions and suggestions at the comment section.

The next topic if going to focus on Yoruba culture, watch out for the interesting Yoruba culture that is going to blow your mind like never before

TOPIC 2: (AFABEETI EDE YORUBA) YORUBA LANGUAGE ALPHABET

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….

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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you can drop it in the comment section
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Welcome to the school of Yoruba Language and cultures

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My name is Akanle Bamishile j.

A graduate of Adeyemi College of Education. Ondo state, affiliated to Obafemi awolowo University. Ile-ife.

I have the following Qualification
Bachelor of art in Education Yoruba Language. With a second class upper division.

I created this blog to showcase the beauty and rich language of the Yoruba people of Nigeria West Africa.

I will be teaching my audience the following:

1. The Yoruba Language
2. The Yoruba culture
3. The similarities and differences between Yoruba and other cultures and ethnic in Nigeria.

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