Learn Yoruba | Àmì OHÙN Yorùbá (The Yoruba Tonation)
Channel: Learn Yoruba with Fatai Oyeyemi
Date: 2022-04-18

Topic: The Yoruba Tonation
Duration: 5 Minutes

Behavioral Objective: At the end of the lesson, the learner should be able to read the Yorùbá Language correctly with the appropriate Tonation.

Introduction: The pronunciation of words in Yorùbá language is tonal; where a different pitch conveys a different word meaning or grammatical distinction.

This means that pronouncing words in Yorùbá is based on what is called Àmì ohùn – Tone Marks. These marks are applied to the top of the vowel within each syllable of a word or phrase.