Help:IPA/Yoruba

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Yoruba language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. This reflects Standard Yoruba, and dialects may have more or fewer phonemes. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

Consonants
IPA	Examples	English approximation
b	bàtá	bit
d	dà	din
d͡ʒ	jà	gin
f	fèrèsé	fat
ɡ	gà	gut
ɡ͡b	gbà	rugby but pronounced simultaneously
h	ha	ham
j	yà	yes
k	kí	cut
k͡p	pọ̀	backpack but pronounced simultaneously
l	lá	left
m	màmá	map
n	nà	nose
ɾ	rà	atom (GA)
s	sìsí	sit
ʃ	ṣòkòtò	ship
t	tà	tip
w	wá	we

Oral vowels
IPA	Examples	English approximation
a	àgè	and
e	ewé	bay
ɛ	ẹ̀pà	bet
i	ìyá	meat
o	oko	go (Indian English)
ɔ	ọ̀bẹ	law (RP)
u	kúrò	fool
Nasal vowels
ã	ìtàn	bran
ɛ̃	hẹ́n	hen; French vin
ĩ	rìn	mean
ɔ̃	ìbọn	pond; French bon
ũ	ràkúnmi	soon

Tone
IPA	Examples	Explanation
◌́	kọ́ [kɔ́]	High tone
◌̄	kọ [kɔ̄]	Mid tone
◌̀	kọ̀ [kɔ̀]	Low tone

Bibliography

• Eme, Cecilia Amaoge; Uba, Ebele Deborah (2016). "A Contrastive Study of the Phonology of Igbo and Yoruba". UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities. 17 (1): 65–84. doi:10.4314/ujah.v17i1.4. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
• Moran, Steven & McCloy, Daniel & Wright, Richard. "Yoruba sound inventory (UPSID)". PHOIBLE Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Retrieved 29 August 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Campbell, George L. (1995). Concise compendium of the world's languages. London; New York: Routledge. p. 588. ISBN 0-415-11392-X. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
• Olmsted, David L. (December 1951). "The Phonemes of Yoruba". WORD. 7 (3): 246. doi:10.1080/00437956.1951.11659409.
• Akinlabi, Akinbiyi (January 1993). "Underspecification and the Phonology of Yoruba /r/". Linguistic Inquiry. 24 (1): 143. Retrieved 29 August 2024.

See also

• Category:Pages with Yoruba IPA (11)