Easy Yoruba: Learning the Language

By Olushola Oni and Sunday Oluwasolafunmi

Anne Sullivan said; “Language grows out of life, out of its’ needs and experiences.” Language extinction is rampant currently on a global basis; we, therefore, deem it necessary to do something meaningful which can serve in helping to preserve our dear language.

During this time, when many languages are on the way to total extinction, in order to not deceive ourselves, we must acknowledge that when languages die, cultures, values, and norms die.

We hope that this work will remind Yorùbá speaking children both at home and abroad, essential aspects and attributes of their language, and their heritage.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781716665363

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EASY YORÙBÁ

(Learning the Language)

BY

OLUSHOLA ONI

AND

SUNDAY OLUWASOLAFUNMI

Easy Yorùbá : Learning the Language

Copyright © 2020 by Olushola Oni & Sunday Oluwasolafunmi

All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

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ISBN: 9798666670002

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

IFÁÀRÀ INTRODUCTION

THE HISTORY OF YORUBAS AS TOLD BY REV. SAMUEL JOHNSON (WORK FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1921)

HISTORY ON HOW IBADAN CAME TO EXISTENCE

ÁLÍFÁBẸ́Ẹ̀TÌ YORÙBÁ ÁLÍFÁBẸ́Ẹ̀TÌ ŃLÁ – BIG ALPHABET

ÁLÍFÁBẸ́Ẹ̀TÌ YORÙBÁ ALÍFÁBẸ́Ẹ̀TÌ KÉKERÉ – SMALL ALPHABET

Ohun tí álífábẹ́ẹ́tì kán le dúró fún What each alphabet may stand for

Kọ́ńsónàntì Yorùbá Yorùbá consonant

Fáwẹ̀lì Yorùbá – Yorùbá vowel

Àmìn ohùn – Tone mark

Lílo kọńsónáǹtì àti fáwẹ̀li ọlúhùn òkè àti ààrin papọ̀

Orúkọ ẹranko Name of animals

Ẹranko Afàyàfà Reptiles

Orúkọ ẹyẹ Name of Birds

Orúkọ kòkòrò name of insects

Orúkọ èso name of fruits

Orúkọ ohun jíjẹ Name of food items

Ẹ̀yà ara parts of the body

Òǹkà Numerical

Ọ̀rọ̀ àti Ìdàkejì Word and Opposite

Àkọ́sórí Memory verse

Orin eré ọmọdé

References

About the authors

Foreword

From birth, we learn to communicate in our mother tongue.   It   is   indeed   a blessing today that some of us have an incredibly sound understanding of the profound meanings of words and other things deep seated   in our mother tongue.

John Drymen (1631-1700), an English Poet, playwright, and literary critic, said; …there are many who understand Greek and Latin (not only Greek and Latin but other languages different from their mother tongue) yet are ignorant of their mother tongue.

We learned much from an accessible Yoruba primer known as ABD Olópe. This primer was the only Yoruba primer available at that time, and also served as the predecessor which Easy Yoruba is based on. Our objective for this book is to assist and encourage both Yoruba and non-Yoruba children (adults inclusive) who possess a passion for learning their mother tongue.

IFÁÀRÀ

INTRODUCTION

Anne Sullivan said; Language grows out of life, out of its’ needs and experiences. Language extinction is rampant currently on a global basis,