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A 5 minute presentation of my personal language history.
Afrikaans
English/Bermudian English
English/Stralian
New Zealand English
dunny = toilet
dankie = thank you
England
Jandels
–
flip
flops
English/Cockney
g’dayplak
= hello
lekker
= happy
fish dinkum
and
Bermuda
chips
= ‘fush and chups’
fair
= true
English/Bermudian English
Zulu
six = pr. =sex
bludger
layabout
Nigeria
Yorùbá
hello = sawubona /English
Kunjani
= how
are you
New
Zealand
Maori
South Africa
Australia
English/Stralian
English/Afrikaans/ Zulu
New Zealand
kia ora = hello
English/Maori
South African English
singlet = vest thongs = flip-flops
Aotearoa = New Zealand = land of the long white cloud
bakkie - small truck
pakeha = white man
England .. Nigeria ..oak
Bermuda
- man .. Australia .. New Zealand .. South Africa
Student’s name
The Yoruba language originates from Oyo in SW Nigeria
also spoken: Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Puerto Rico and Trinidad
estimate: 20 million speakers worldwide (Ufomata, 1986)
Yorùbá is a tonal language
.
Fo (high)
.
Fo (low)
wash
the dishes
smash
“Kabo” (high, low) “welcome”
Dundun - Talking Drum
Standard English and Yoruba
Similarities and differences
The Yorùbá Alphabet (Álífáb́ ẹ̀ẹtì
English
Yorùbá)
Script
separate letter
Yoruba
cqvxz
c = k or s
know, gnome
Phonology/Phonetics
Syntax
g, gb, kp (back pay)
the word I bo has a silent ‘g’
I don’t know what I will do with this my stubborn brother
conveys anxiety
stop the noise
ye pariwo
WordEnglish
The
ClassesAlphabet
3 per gender him, her, it
o
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hz Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp
Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv they
Wwlove
Xxeach
Yy other
Zz
they love themselves
Semantics/Pragmatics
rd
yesterday I went
.
mo lo (yesterday I go)
A 5 minute presentation of my personal language history.
Thank You and Odabo