This paper examines the phonotactic processes in yoruba adaptation of english syllable structures. Here the demonstrative kcn this which conditions the deletion of the. Language contact and language alternation in a yoruba. It is in view of the above that a synchronic study of english and yoruba morphological systems is undertaken here. The yoruba pantheon consists of hundreds of gods, worshipped for an immense variety of purposes, each representative of some natural element or human emotion. My amazing collection of yoruba love poems deedees blog. As we walk upon the earth our feet press against the bones of the ancestors on whose shoulders we stand.
A cognophonetic study of hepenthesis by educated yoruba. In present day cuba, the santeria theology regards the orunmila or orula as as the wise man and he leads the priesthood. It is believed that a comparative study of this type will reveal the differences which are assumed to be responsible for linguistic interference and are thus sources of difficulties for a yoruba learner of english. The tonal phonology of yoruba clitics linguistic data consortium. Yoruba has three phonemically distinctive toneshigh, mid, and low. The linguistic analysis of the structure of the yoruba. Tone uc berkeley linguistics university of california, berkeley. The concept of iwa is a standard or aspiration inbuilt into the framework of societal institutions. The pronunciation of kp is only preserved in dialects and it characterises the speech of some uneducated speakers. Maxplanck institute for history of science, berlin, preprint n 257.
In this paper, i deal with the cases in which, when n and. Odunjo lecture, university of ibadan, may 7, 2012 toyin falola. Yoruba data shows that this is not in all cases a suitable alternative. How to say alteration in yoruba whats the yoruba word for alteration. The series provides scholarly and educational texts that can serve both as ref. Perceptual attrition of lexical tone among l1 yorubaspeaking children in canada saliu shittu and annemichelle tessier 1. This is a treatise on the importance of plants ewe.
It was brought to the new world by the hundreds of thousands of men, women and children who were hunted down and sold as slaves. Language contact and language alternation in a yoruba suburban town samuel ayodele dada department of english, university of ado ekiti, nigeria this paper is an indepth analysis of the process of language alternation involving three languages, erushu, yoruba and english, in erushu, akoko. Mid tone, yoruba is still better analysed synchronically as having an underlying. They are found in southwestern nigeria, and in some parts of benin republic and togoland in west africa. There is much in this work about african religion and philosophy and about the feelings and knowledge of the black african peoples in the. Note that l alternates with n before oral vowels in yoruba, as seen in the. Contrastive study of english and yoruba morphological. Pertaining to the morphology, since the typology is mostly isolating it has very little inflection. For example, the god of thunder and lightning, spelled sa n go by the continental yorubas, is spelled cha n go in cuba, xa n go in brazil, and sha n go in america, but the name and the characteristics of the god are consistent across the board. I also anal yze h in english recordings usin g the american native speaker s pronunciation. Like most indigenous cultures of the world, africans believe that those who go before us make us what. The tonal result of assuming such an analysis is correct, whereas the.
Bi aji ni kutukutuka di eleda mu when one wakes up early in the morning, one should hold on to his eleda. This includes words or expressions used to form a negative form as opposted to the affirmative. Perceptual attrition of lexical tone among l1 yoruba. The yoruba the history of the yoruba of nigeria is beyond this paper. Yoruba is the language spoken by large group of people. But predominantly, the yoruba belong to the ogun, osun, oyo. The concept of ori in the traditional yoruba visual. Pdf phonotactic adjustments in yoruba adaptation of english. The concept of ori in the traditional yoruba visual representation 215 ori lo da mi the deity is my creator eniyan ko o it is not man olorun ni it is god ori lo da mi the deity is my creator ori here refers to the deity the creator himself, whereas in another of the yoruba sayings. The other aspect of sonorant nasalizationdenasalization in yoruba involves the alternation between l and n. Papers originally presented at an international conference,perspectives on yoruba history and culture,held at the university oftexas at austin,march 2628,2004. Since the distinction is sometimes made in literature, between codeswitching.
Egun is the collective representation of the ancestors. Yoruba cultural studies edited byedited by m0y0 okediji m0y0 okediji this volume is under construction the university of african art press, 2008 denver, co. This entry was posted in learning yoruba and tagged audio, learn yoruba, mp3, yoruba alphabets on november 19, 2019 by bim a. Lateral is an acceptable coda in english but w hen borrowed into yoruba, it is usually. The study of yoruba religious tradition in historical. A song of benediction which corroborates the adage quoted above runs thus. Suffice it here to say that the yoruba are among the most numerous and coherent of the peoples of africa 2. Yoruba has only 3 syllable types c, cv, and the syllabic nasal n. Atlantic yoruba and the expanding frontiers of yoruba culture and politics 2012 j. Yoruba cannot realise the phoneme correctly as claimed by ekpe 2010 because ufomata 2004 opines that voiceless bilabial plosive p has been introduced into yoruba.
Younger members of the benin ruling house carried yoruba influenc e eastwards across the niger as far as onitsha and. Sonorant nasalization in yoruba deverbal nouns1 citeseerx. There are many varieties of yoruba religion and there are anywhere between 400 and 700 yoruba gods. Yoruba culture yoruba culture refers to the idiosyncratic cultural norms of yorubaland and the yoruba people. Orunmila is considered a spirit of wisdom and the god of destiny and prophecy. The tonal phonology of yoruba clitics1 akinbiyi akinlabi and mark liberman rutgers univ. Santerias roots are in africa, in the yoruba religions native to nigeria. Lateral is an acceptable coda in english but when borrowed into yoruba, it is usually. For instance, a discussion can be started in yoruba and concluded in english.
Religion traditional yoruba religion has a pantheon of the deities called the orisha. The tonal phonology of yoruba clitics akinbiyi akinlabi. How to say plant in yoruba thesaurus and word tools. The ori holds the bodys knowledge and is its destiny. Much that will be said here will be based on lydia cabrera. In the example above, there is an alternation of nl as in. Younger members of the benin ruling house carried yoruba influenc e eastwards across the niger as far as onitsha and into the creeks, notably to nembe in the brass district. Article pdf available in open journal of modern linguistics 0504.
One can find clear elements of yoruba culture today in cuba and brazil. In this treatise the importance of plants ewe yoruba, vititi finda bikongo, yerbaspanish in the yoruba religion is discussed. Believe me when i say weve got a lot of lovers and individuals with skilled usage of yoruba language. Lucas, the first indigene to write about yoruba religion was an acclaimed egyptologist in his life time, and perhaps the only intel lectual among the anglican clergy in his time. Yoruba love poems in october 2017, i came up with an initiative on facebook where i reached out to friends and family to drop their love poems in yoruba language.
About bim a writer, editor and creator of theyorubablog. We often call our ancestors by the name, egun, which in yoruba language means bones. How to say alteration in yoruba thesaurus and word tools. Introduction this paper reports a study of tonal perception and attrition in yoruba nigercongo, among children aged 815 and their parents aged 4247, all originally.
They serve the function of linking the suffix with the free morpheme. In a similar vein, yoruba philosophy can be considered antecedent to yoruba religion, in the same manner that every. Tone in the phonology, lexicon and grammar of ikaan core. This is a religion that can be traced back to africa and due to the atlantic slave trade. The african religions had to undergo severe transformations in order to survive. We use the term down trend, as in the introduction, for any overall lowering of speaking. Learning about the yoruba orishas the religion most of us did not know about. Dada adelowo introduction this paper is motiated by the need. The r deletion as well as the l and n alteration were the most common phonological processes. The word for head in yorubaoricarries physical and spiritual connotations that cannot be separated. Style of language use in childhood in yoruba speech community ayeomoni, m. Abstract written in an erudite yet accessible style, this lecture begins with a moral allusion to a historical yoruba curse as. Women, scarification, and yoruba identity 349 of owu into egba, ijebu, or oyo after 1820.
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