Hello!

I just wanted to express my thoughts on how people write Yorùbá words, and why they never use the correct accent marks or special characters when doing so.

Although I'm not a native of Nigeria, nor am I a Yorùbá speaker, I do adore language and, when learning a new one, I always make sure that I'm writing and reading it correctly. Unfortunately, when trying to learn and read Yorùbá, it becomes increasingly difficult to do so since, at least online, the language is not written properly at all by most people, without any accent marks to deduce tones, or any special characters, such as the ẹ, or "eh", the ọ, or "aw", or the Ṣ, or "shi". Without these characters or accent marks to identify tones of words and how they should be correctly pronounced, Yorùbá is impossible to read or comprehend!

What do you all think of this? Do you agree?

Where can we get Yoruba keyboard?

I agree 100%

thunder74:
Where can we get Yoruba keyboard?

I've been asking that same question myself. Lets' hope Microsoft or Apple will come out with one someday... or let's start a change.org petition...... anything is possible!

Thewesterner:
I agree 100%

Thanks, glad you agree!

Somehow native speakers can read without the accent marks. No doubt that it can become confusing sometimes.

Bamz:
Somehow native speakers can read without the accent marks. No doubt that it can become confusing sometimes.

Hmmm, I've heard that. I wonder why? Perhaps because they are just that, fluent speakers? I'm not sure....

FeelDeMusic:

I've been asking that same question myself. Lets' hope Microsoft or Apple will come out with one someday... or let's start a change.org petition...... anything is possible!

I got one on play store. There are many Yorùbá keyboard there.

thunder74:

I got one on play store. There are many Yorùbá keyboard there.

Oh, cool! Well I've got an iPhone, so I'll look on the App Store for one.

The Yoruba calendar (Kojoda)

Yoruba also measure time in 7days a week & 4weeks a month. The traditional Yoruba week has 4days, the 4days calendar was dedicated to the Orisas and the 7day calendar is for doing business.

It go as follow:

Day 1 is dedicated to Obatala (Sopanna, Iyaami, and the Egungun)
Day 2 is dedicated to Orunmila (Esu and Osun) *
Day 3 is dedicated to Ogun (Osoosi)
Day 4 is dedicated to Sango (Oya)

The seven days are:

Ojo-Aiku (Sunday),

Oko-Aje (Monday),

Ojo-Ishegun (Tuesday),

Ojo-Riru (Wednesday),

Ojo-Bo/Alamisi (Thursday),

Ojo-Eti (Friday)

and

Ojo-Abameta (Saturday).

Time is measured in

isheju (minutes),
wakati (hours),
ojo (days),
ose (weeks),
oshu (months) and odun (years).

There are

60 (ogota) isheju in 1 (okan) wakati;
24 (merinlelogun) wakati in 1 ojo;
7 (meje) ojo in 1 ose;
4 (merin) ose in 1 oshu and
52 (ejileladota)ose in 1 (okan) odun.

There are 12 (mejila) oshu in 1 (okan) odun.

#YorubaChannel

aremuforlife:
The Yoruba calendar (Kojoda)

Yoruba also measure time in 7days a week & 4weeks a month. The traditional Yoruba week has 4days, the 4days calendar was dedicated to the Orisas and the 7day calendar is for doing business.

It go as follow:

Day 1 is dedicated to Obatala (Sopanna, Iyaami, and the Egungun)
Day 2 is dedicated to Orunmila (Esu and Osun) *
Day 3 is dedicated to Ogun (Osoosi)
Day 4 is dedicated to Sango (Oya)

The seven days are:

Ojo-Aiku (Sunday),

Oko-Aje (Monday),

Ojo-Ishegun (Tuesday),

Ojo-Riru (Wednesday),

Ojo-Bo/Alamisi (Thursday),

Ojo-Eti (Friday)

and

Ojo-Abameta (Saturday).

Time is measured in

isheju (minutes),
wakati (hours),
ojo (days),
ose (weeks),
oshu (months) and odun (years).

There are

60 (ogota) isheju in 1 (okan) wakati;
24 (merinlelogun) wakati in 1 ojo;
7 (meje) ojo in 1 ose;
4 (merin) ose in 1 oshu and
52 (ejileladota)ose in 1 (okan) odun.

There are 12 (mejila) oshu in 1 (okan) odun.

#YorubaChannel

Wow, this is awesome, thanks for sharing!

Though I don't want to derail the thread, I actually came up with my own Yoruba writing system yesterday along with a friend of mine! I'll explain more later as I don't want this post to be too long.....

thunder74:
Where can we get Yoruba keyboard?

Download SwiftKey keyboard on playstore, then download Yorùbá Keyboard...... If you activate both Yorùbá and English, the keyboard would help you put intonations when u type Yorùbá Though sometimes it does not get the intonation for some Words, but the thing try.....

Where can we get Yoruba keyboard? [/quote]Download SwiftKey keyboard on playstore, then download Yorùbá Keyboard...... If you activate both Yorùbá and English, the keyboard would help you put intonations when u type Yorùbá Though sometimes it does not get the intonation for some Words, but the thing try.....

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FeelDeMusic:

Hmmm, I've heard that. I wonder why? Perhaps because they are just that, fluent speakers? I'm not sure....

They get it from context.