This sound is from Ilesanmi Moyinoluwa

I am a Linguist, a Yoruba language expert, and an awesome Yoruba content creator, I write and compose Yoruba songs for various purposes, I write and tell fantastic stories in Yoruba and also do Yoruba-English translating, English-Yoruba translating. I teach Yoruba language online.

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Yoruba version of the popular happy birthday song

my child hasn't gone to sleep tonight,
Moon, you must not sleep,

my child hasn't gone to sleep tonight,
Moon, you must not sleep,

my child hasn't gone to sleep tonight,
Moon, you must not sleep,

Stars, my child is in your league,
come play with this child

Stars, my child is in your league,
come play with this child.

my child hasn't gone t...

one of the beauties of the Yoruba language is its vast number of heteronomies. Test your ability to hear and decode Yoruba words with these few sets of heteronomies.

kò sí bí òkè kan ti lè ga tó
gígùn ún dé téńté orí ẹ̀,
bẹ̀rẹ̀ pẹ̀lú ìṣísẹ̀ àkọ́kọ́
ìṣísẹ̀ kọ̀ọ̀kan tí a kò kà sí,
ní ń darapọ̀ di ìgbésẹ̀ kan ńlá
tí gbogbo ayé leè rí!
nítorí náà ńkọ́?

kò sígbà tó kéré
kò sákòókò tí kò wúlò
Ìṣẹ́jú aago kọ̀ọ̀kan
Ló níṣẹ́ tó ń ṣe
Má fàkókò ṣeré ó,
Ọ̀rẹ́ wa.

Appreciating the beauty of a Language comes in different forms, mo ríre-'I am fortunate' is a Yoruba oral poetry presented as a song