IṢẸ SÍLÉBÙ OLÓHÙN ÀÁRÍN INÚ ÀPÓLÀ ONÍBÀÁTAN NÍNÚ ẸKA-ÈDÈ GÚSÙ-MỌ-ÌLÀ-OÒRÙN YORÙBÁ (Function of Mid-toned Syllable in the SEY Dialects)
Ọ̀pọ̀ onímọ̀ èdè Yorùbá ni àkíyèsi ìfarahàn iṣẹ́ sílébù olóhùn òkè hàn sí kedere àmọ́ àwọn díẹ̀ ni àkíyèsi ìfarahàn iṣẹ́ sílébù olóhùn àárín inú àpólà oníbàátan hàn sí. Èrò méjì ló wà lóri iṣẹ́ fáwẹ́lí olóhùn àárín inú àpólà oníbàátan nínú ède Yorùbá àjùmọ̀lò; àwọn onímọ̀ kan gbà pé fáwẹ́lì olóhùn àárín ló ń fi àpólà oníbàátan hàn nínú èdè Yorùbá n�...
IṢẸ SÍLÉBÙ OLÓHÙN ÀÁRÍN INÚ ÀPÓLÀ ONÍBÀÁTAN NÍNÚ ẸKA-ÈDÈ GÚSÙ-MỌ-ÌLÀ-OÒRÙN YORÙBÁ (Mid-toned Syllable in the SEY Dialects)
Ọ̀pọ̀ onímọ̀ èdè Yorùbá ni àkíyèsi ìfarahàn iṣẹ́ sílébù olóhùn òkè hàn sí kedere àmọ́ àwọn díẹ̀ ni àkíyèsi ìfarahàn iṣẹ́ sílébù olóhùn àárín inú àpólà oníbàátan hàn sí. Èrò méjì ló wà lóri iṣẹ́ fáwẹ́lí olóhùn àárín inú àpólà oníbàátan nínú ède Yorùbá àjùmọ̀lò; àwọn onímọ̀ kan gbà pé fáwẹ́lì olóhùn àárín ló ń fi àpólà oníbàátan hàn nínú èdè Yorùbá n�...
Phoneme /l/ and its Allophones in the South-East Yoruba Dialects (SEY): An Optimality Theory Account
There is no issue surrounding the phonemic status of consonants [l and n] in the Standard Yorùbá. It is proven that consonants [l and n] are allophones of the same phoneme which establishes the fact that l~n alternation does exist in the SY. Phoneme /l/ has two allophones: [l] and [n]; consonant [l] occurs before an oral vowel and consonant [n] occurs before a nasal vowel. There are two schools of thought on the phonemic status of consonants [l and n] in the South-East Yorùbá dialects; a ...
Phonemes ͻ̃ and ã and their Allophones in the South-East Yoruba (SEY) Dialects: An Optimality Theory Account
The manifestation of ͻ̃~ã is recorded in the Standard Yorùbá (SY) which is contrast to what we know in the South-East Yorùbá. This simply means vowels [ͻ̃ and ã] are known to be allophones of the same phoneme (/ã/) in the Standard Yorùbá (SY). In other words, there is ͻ̃~ã in SY. Can we say the same in the South-East Yorùbá? Are [ͻ̃ and ã] allophones of the same phoneme in the SEY? Does ͻ̃~ã really exist in the South-East Yorùbá? Hence, this study brings a contrast r...
Phoneme /h/ and its Allophones in the South-East Yoruba (SEY) Dialects: An Optimality Theory Account
It is known that an allophone is a non-contrastive segment. Less attention is given to its understanding because most scholars believe it is narrow in nature but there are more to allophonic variations across dialects of a language than what we know in the standard form of such language. Yorùbá is not exempted on this. Most (typical) native speakers of Yorùbá language find it difficult to produce /h/ in their day-to-day conversation which is why phoneme /h/ is mostly replaced with other s...
HISTORY OF YORUBA
It is well known to Tom, Dick and Harry that Yoruba tribe is one of the three major tribes in Nigeria whom have vehemently served and have shouldered the country times without number as their contributions to all of her sectors: education, politics, economy, law, health, entertainment etc. are pivotal and mammoth; it is not new to everyone that Yoruba domiciled in Western part of Nigeria and they speak Yoruba language which has more than 40 million native speakers. Seven states are regarded a...
ALLOPHONIC VARIATION IN SELECTED YORÙBÁ DIALECTS AN OPTIMALITY THEORY ACCOUNT
ABSTRACT This study is concerned with the allophonic variations across selected dialects of Yorùbá; an account of optimality theory. This study reveals there are more to allophonic variations across Yorùbá dialects than what we know in Standard Yorùbá (SY); that vowel /ã/ as a phoneme has three allophones ([ã], [ͻ̃], and [ε̃]): vowel [â] occurs after a bilabial related consonant; vowel [ͻ̃] occurs after others: vowel [ε̃] only occurs in few words like yẹn’that’, wọ̀...