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charijee:
[color=#CD1076]The only affricate I'm seeing here is the {gb}....why is there no {kp} affricate?
It does occur in the pronunciations of some yoruba words, eg "pele"[/color]

GB is the only affricate in Yoruba alphabet
The KP is been used by people who can not speak the language fluently, mostly the Igbo people trying to speak the language.
We only have Pele nothing like kpele
Thanks for your contribution

YourNemesis:
There is "H: in Yoruba.

Tongun is Ahan
Thing is Ohun
Shrewdness is Ahun
Knit is Hun
Stuck is Ha

Etc

is it it an irony that despite the fact that "H" exists in Yoruba, a lot of Yorubas still have the "h" factor , due to the people's poor rendition of their own language.

Contributions appreciated.

Please ignore my typos.

And don't forget to ask questions and make contributions if necessary.

Thanks

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

PrinceAbinibi:
I bow to superior knowledge, thanks for educating me...

Ahhhhh

E gbàmí ke.
God is the only source of knowledge oh!
We are just tapping from him.

Let's go learn more Yoruba jàre omo ìyá.

PrinceAbinibi:
sorry to disturb you sir, yoruba language does not have h as an alphabet, if it does tell me one word that begins with h in yoruba, it is the corruption of yoruba words such as sade into shade, there is nothing like shade, I am not purist by the way, enlighten if you think otherwise, not trying to derail your thread, just want to know when h was added. Keep the good work going sir.

Thanks for the feedback
In as much as we are still living, learning continues.

Firstly: yoruba language does not have h as an alphabet, if it does tell me one word that begins with h in yoruba,

Yoruba definitely have the H alphabet, it's part of our alphabet. Can't be compromised.

Secondly: if it does tell me one word that begins with h in yoruba, it is the corruption of yoruba words such as sade into shade, there is nothing like shade,

Well, it's because you don't understand the reason behind this, let me explain in to you.

In Yoruba Language, there are PHONES,
Not telephone o.
These phones include the following
Mophone, idiophone, among others.

The one that you need to understand now is the idiophone(ÍDÍÓFÓÓNÙ)

This means the making of sound through vibration, mostly in musical instrument.

H alphabet is not that physical like other alphabet, jist like alphabet N can be hidden sometimes too.

What happen to words like
Oshogbo that became Osogbo
Shile that became Sile
Shola that became Shola
Among others, are not corruption as you said. It is an upgrade from the past Yoruba pattern of saying words and the new one.(ÀKÓTÓ ÁYÉ ÀTIJÓ, and ÀKÓTÓ ÒDE-ÒNÍ.

this changes also affect words like
AIYE THAY BECAME AYE
TAIYE that BECAME TAYE.
Abbl.

Examples of words that start with alphabet H are:

Hílà-Hílo
Hìya!!!
Hío-hio

I can't think of other examples for now.
H alphabet is in Yoruba alphabet.


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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)

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….

charijee:
[color=#CD1076]This is getting interesting

Op, do help with the tonal signs( high, mid, low ).....

Nice work



Leks [/color]

Thanks sister.
I'm working on my laptop keyboard.
I can only add the signs on my phone
But I'm carrying out this project on my laptop.

I will do something to it soonest

Berbierklaus:
Please add voicenotes to help beginners like me grasp the pronounciations easily


Grabs popcorn

Thanks for the feedback

But I'm not sure nairaland support voice notes.

I will soon start uploading vedios on YouTube for those that can not understand very well.

New topic posted on my blog.

Will upload it here 11:00pm today.

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Yoruba Language alphabet
Afabeeti Ede Yoruba

PrinceAbinibi:
Keep it going OP, I am following you like FBI

thanks for the feedback.

i will upload a new topic later today

Pic illustration

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
DO
RE
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....

if you have any question of observation
you can drop it in the comment section
thanks

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
DO
RE
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....

if you have any question of observation
you can drop it in the comment section
thanks

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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
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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:

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hi bro.
I pray you get final approval.

kindly help me with the following questions...

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2. how old is your blog?
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5. what are the other thing you think made them approve you apart from what I mention in 1-4 above.
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episode 2

Welcome readers, here we continue the journey of Vivian the orphan young lady..

Aunty Philo is always in her shop till late evening, I would be the one to take care of the home, the cooking, and also do the laundry, including Joe and Jane's cloths.

The husband as I said is a police officer, he works in shift, like a week day and the next night. When ever is on night duty he's always at home during the day.

This continue like this till I was 12 years old, I can still remember vividly the first time I saw my menstral blood, I couldn't tell aunty Philo, I was in great pain, I was only holding my stomach and rolling on the floor.

I cried to God why I was feeling such pain.  To my surprise, as I lift up my head to rest my back on the bed, I saw aunty Philo husband standing at the door.

He asked me what was going on, I kept mute, I couldn't say anything. After some time she gave me confidence that I should speak up. 

That was when I showed him the blood, he now gave a big sigh and he said he thought it was a big deal.

My eyes was rolling. He drew me up, and took me to the bathroom to clean up while he went to his bedroom to get me some drugs.

Before he got back, I have cleaned myself, he brought back with him d medication and a tissue paper. He thought me how to use it, and he left, but before he left, he held me in the shoulder and he said. 'Vivi' you are now a woman.

I was like was i not a woman before? I always see aunty Philo and her husband as words and opposite,  aunty Philo likes money too much, she's always away. Thank God the husband use to gave me and the kids little attention whenever he is at home.

At the dinner that night, I was the main topic. The husband explained everything that happened to me in the presence of everyone. I felt ashamed but the husband told me not to worry that even aunty Philo normally do the same monthly.

After a week that I have finished my menstruation, I was inside the room reading my teach yourself correct English book. Aunty Philo husband was also at home but Joe and Jane have gone to school, it was around 10am.

He entered my room, and sat beside me, he told me his name is Femi, that he so much love my aunty, but the problem is that my aunty is always busy with money and shop, she's no longer given him attention as the husband, he asked me if I understand him. The i Nord my head to show that I understand. Because I don't even know what to say.

Later he talked about how he met my aunty and how they decide to get married. And the end of his epistle, he started getting closer to me, while I shifted until I got to the wall. I asked him politely why he was moving close to me. 

He told me he wanted me to hear him very well. He tried touching me in the neck but I did not allow his hand to touch me.

After some minutes, he told me he wants to start an affair with me, that he loved me very much. Quickly as I heard that I kneeled down before him, and started begging him to please see me as one of his children. He lifted me up like he was going to pet me.

The next thing I saw was that he threw me on the bed, I was shouting for help, he brought out his handkerchief from his pocket and tied it across my mouth.

I was screaming, but couldn't steam loud. He was so strong that I couldn't struggle with him much before I lost all my energy, I was crying for help, but help didn't come. I called in my parents in heaven, none of them answered.

He deflowered me with his finger, I'm still in pain whenever I remember the horrible experience. After he had inserted his finger in to my private part, 

I slapped him, that was the biggest mistake of my life, I couldn't count the number of slap he gave me, he punched me, I felt I was gonna to die. He raped me till I fainted. 

The worst thing was that when I woke up. It was not where I fainted that I met myself. 

To be continued.....

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episode 2

Welcome readers, here we continue the journey of Vivian the orphan young lady..

Aunty Philo is always in her shop till late evening, I would be the one to take care of the home, the cooking, and also do the laundry, including Joe and Jane's cloths.

The husband as I said is a police officer, he works in shift, like a week day and the next night. When ever is on night duty he's always at home during the day.

This continue like this till I was 12 years old, I can still remember vividly the first time I saw my menstral blood, I couldn't tell aunty Philo, I was in great pain, I was only holding my stomach and rolling on the floor.

I cried to God why I was feeling such pain.  To my surprise, as I lift up my head to rest my back on the bed, I saw aunty Philo husband standing at the door.

He asked me what was going on, I kept mute, I couldn't say anything. After some time she gave me confidence that I should speak up. 

That was when I showed him the blood, he now gave a big sigh and he said he thought it was a big deal.

My eyes was rolling. He drew me up, and took me to the bathroom to clean up while he went to his bedroom to get me some drugs.

Before he got back, I have cleaned myself, he brought back with him d medication and a tissue paper. He thought me how to use it, and he left, but before he left, he held me in the shoulder and he said. 'Vivi' you are now a woman.

I was like was i not a woman before? I always see aunty Philo and her husband as words and opposite,  aunty Philo likes money too much, she's always away. Thank God the husband use to gave me and the kids little attention whenever he is at home.

At the dinner that night, I was the main topic. The husband explained everything that happened to me in the presence of everyone. I felt ashamed but the husband told me not to worry that even aunty Philo normally do the same monthly.

After a week that I have finished my menstruation, I was inside the room reading my teach yourself correct English book. Aunty Philo husband was also at home but Joe and Jane have gone to school, it was around 10am.

He entered my room, and sat beside me, he told me his name is Femi, that he so much love my aunty, but the problem is that my aunty is always busy with money and shop, she's no longer given him attention as the husband, he asked me if I understand him. The i Nord my head to show that I understand. Because I don't even know what to say.

Later he talked about how he met my aunty and how they decide to get married. And the end of his epistle, he started getting closer to me, while I shifted until I got to the wall. I asked him politely why he was moving close to me. 

He told me he wanted me to hear him very well. He tried touching me in the neck but I did not allow his hand to touch me.

After some minutes, he told me he wants to start an affair with me, that he loved me very much. Quickly as I heard that I kneeled down before him, and started begging him to please see me as one of his children. He lifted me up like he was going to pet me.

The next thing I saw was that he threw me on the bed, I was shouting for help, he brought out his handkerchief from his pocket and tied it across my mouth.

I was screaming, but couldn't steam loud. He was so strong that I couldn't struggle with him much before I lost all my energy, I was crying for help, but help didn't come. I called in my parents in heaven, none of them answered.

He deflowered me with his finger, I'm still in pain whenever I remember the horrible experience. After he had inserted his finger in to my private part, 

I slapped him, that was the biggest mistake of my life, I couldn't count the number of slap he gave me, he punched me, I felt I was gonna to die. He raped me till I fainted. 

The worst thing was that when I woke up. It was not where I fainted that I met myself. 

To be continued.....

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wrong move...dont dash cards. pple fit chop nd comot

dear brother. person chop the card clean mouth o. no even drop comment to say thank you.
but e no matter. I have my reasons thanks anyway

RussiaWithLove:
Please can somebody help me with yoruba language? would like it to be through Skype, am one of those whose parents didn't install it. i can pay per hour through PayPal. My timezone is eastern standard zone (U.S. East Coast), i know only the very basics but cannot hold down a conversation. let me know please, my email dodgersbaseball5@gmail.com

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greetings from Nigeria.
I'm a graduate of Yoruba Language (BA.ED)

I can make you understand the language withing some weeks.
I've not been able to send message to your mail.
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Dear RomanceLand,

My name is Vivian, I don’t know the best tittle to give my story. But I believe my name is enough as a tittle.

Please you have to kindly help me publish my story so that people can know what the poorly brought up children are facing.

I came across your post on nairaland and I choose to be the first to submit my article. Not because of the money. But because I want people to learn from my experience.

I grew up in the East with mother, we don’t have an apartment we can call our own. We stay in uncompleted buildings in the development areas.

I never knew I have no father untill I was 7 years old. My dad died from an accident he had in his working site, he used to work as a carpenter and did a lot of roffing that’s according to my mother. He spent all his life savings on the treatment, but at the end of the whole spending and suffering, he died.

I was left alone with my mother and when the landlord sees that we are owing rent of two years, he had no option than to send us parking.

We left the house and that was how we started going from one uncomplicated building to another. I woke up to reality one night, the night I will never forget in my life.

I slept early around 8:00pm, i was so tired from the hurking i did during the day. I was woke by the shout of my mother.

I didn’t see anything as it was dark, I can only recognize my mother’s voice and some other loud and ugly voice of about 3 men.

They grab my mother, slap her, beat her till she’s weak, they took turn in raping her. Calling her names. Morked her, I was silent because I was so scared.

When they left, my mother ruched to where I was sleeping to check if I was ok. I told her I’m fine. I can still feel her shaking and shivring from the shock.

She cried all night and when the day breaks shecontinued. She cried for three days without eaten, I was so scared I was going to lose her. After 4 days, she told me she had promised my dad that no man will ever have sex with her apart from my father.

I felt so bad, and wish I could see those hudlums and kill them my self.

After one week, she felt sick, due to no money to take care of her medically she gave up the ghost. She died, my last hope just gone in my presence. As a kid, it was just like a dream.

What can I do? I cried blame the family members but nothing was done that to bury my mother.(rest in peace best mum)

I was only in primary 5.

I moved in with aunty Philomena

We call her aunty Philo.

She is married and have two children, a boy 12 years old and a girl who by then was my age mate.

Aunty Philo husband is a police man, constable, he works in shift. I used to see him as a responsible man until one faithful day he slapped me in my bumbum, I didn’t give any attention I thought he was joking.

I’m the only one that’s always left at home, since I joined aunty Philo family, my education had stopped, I became the house maid.

When aunty Philo and the children are away from home…

To be continued

The story of Vivian

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Dear RomanceLand,

My name is Vivian, I don’t know the best tittle to give my story. But I believe my name is enough as a tittle.

Please you have to kindly help me publish my story so that people can know what the poorly brought up children are facing.

I came across your post on nairaland and I choose to be the first to submit my article. Not because of the money. But because I want people to learn from my experience.

I grew up in the East with mother, we don’t have an apartment we can call our own. We stay in uncompleted buildings in the development areas.

I never knew I have no father untill I was 7 years old. My dad died from an accident he had in his working site, he used to work as a carpenter and did a lot of roffing that’s according to my mother. He spent all his life savings on the treatment, but at the end of the whole spending and suffering, he died.

I was left alone with my mother and when the landlord sees that we are owing rent of two years, he had no option than to send us parking.

We left the house and that was how we started going from one uncomplicated building to another. I woke up to reality one night, the night I will never forget in my life.

I slept early around 8:00pm, i was so tired from the hurking i did during the day. I was woke by the shout of my mother.

I didn’t see anything as it was dark, I can only recognize my mother’s voice and some other loud and ugly voice of about 3 men.

They grab my mother, slap her, beat her till she’s weak, they took turn in raping her. Calling her names. Morked her, I was silent because I was so scared.

When they left, my mother ruched to where I was sleeping to check if I was ok. I told her I’m fine. I can still feel her shaking and shivring from the shock.

She cried all night and when the day breaks shecontinued. She cried for three days without eaten, I was so scared I was going to lose her. After 4 days, she told me she had promised my dad that no man will ever have sex with her apart from my father.

I felt so bad, and wish I could see those hudlums and kill them my self.

After one week, she felt sick, due to no money to take care of her medically she gave up the ghost. She died, my last hope just gone in my presence. As a kid, it was just like a dream.

What can I do? I cried blame the family members but nothing was done that to bury my mother.(rest in peace best mum)

I was only in primary 5.

I moved in with aunty Philomena

We call her aunty Philo.

She is married and have two children, a boy 12 years old and a girl who by then was my age mate.

Aunty Philo husband is a police man, constable, he works in shift. I used to see him as a responsible man until one faithful day he slapped me in my bumbum, I didn’t give any attention I thought he was joking.

I’m the only one that’s always left at home, since I joined aunty Philo family, my education had stopped, I became the house maid.

When aunty Philo and the children are away from home…

To be continued

The story of Vivian

Please drop your comment if you are following…

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https://romanceland./

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