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14 Unit 1: N’ílé ò.ré.
2 Train depot 5 Market
3 Class 6 Home
4 Church 7 Museum
Exercise 12
Say “thank you” to the following people. The first one has been done
for you.
Example:
1 Your mother
Õ ßé
2 Kunle 6 Your younger sibling
3 Your friend 7 Your father
4 Your teacher 8 Your peer
5 Your boss 9 Your older neighbor
Exercise 13
Say “Good evening” and “Good [late] evening” to the people listed
in Exercise 12.
Tone practice (CD 1; 9)
Tones are very important in Yoruba. There are three tones: they
are low [ ` ], mid [unmarked] and high [ ´ ]. They function in the same
way as a consonant or a vowel in the sense that if you replace one
tone for another tone, you can change the meaning of a word
completely. For example:
igbá calabash
ìgbà time
igba 200
igbà a type of rope
ìgbá a type of vegetable
Changing the tones in the above words has changed the meanings of
the words. It is comparable to changing the vowels in English words,
for example:
bit
bet
bat