A 5 minute presentation of my personal language history.

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A 5 minute presentation of my personal language
history.
Students name
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The Yoruba language originates from Oyo in SW
Nigeria
Nigeria
Yoruba
also spoken Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Puerto
Rico and Trinidad
estimate 20 million speakers worldwide (Ufomata,
1986)
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Yorùbá is a tonal language
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Standard English and Yoruba
Similarities and differences
English Yoruba
know, gnome
g, gb, kp (back pay)
Phonology/Phonetics
the word I bo has a silent g
g
Syntax
I dont know what I will do with this my stubborn
brother
stop the noise
ye pariwo
Word Classes
3rd per gender him, her, it
o
they love each other
they love themselves
Semantics/Pragmatics
yesterday I went
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A 5 minute presentation of my personal language
history.
Thank You and Odabo