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| Title: | The tonal structure of Yoruba poetry |
| Author: | Lasebikan, E.L. |
| Year: | 1956 |
| Periodical: | Présence africaine |
| Issue: | 8 |
| Pages: | 43-50 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | Yoruba language poetry (form) |
| Abstract: | After a short introduction on three main characteristics of the Yoruba language, namely - 1) that it is a tone language, 2) that it abounds in onomatopoeic words, and 3) that it contains a number of expressions usually associated with certain ideas, and whose meanings are intensified by their being reduplicated on certain tone patterns the author examines a few poems. Free translations and Yoruba texts. |
