THE YORUBA VOWELS

Standard Yoruba has seven oral and five nasal vowels. There are no diphthongs in Yoruba; sequences of vowels are pronounced as separate.

The vowels in the Yorùbá alphabet are a, e, ẹ, i, o, ọ, u. You will notice that distinct from the other vowels, ẹ and ọ both have dots underneath them.

Let's figure out how the alphabets are being pronounced here👇👇👇




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