FSI. Yoruba Basic Course. Student Text

• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 381
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Автор: O. Aremu
Издатель: Foreign Service Institute
Год: 1963
Количество страниц: 381

Yoruba, unlike most African languages, has been made the subject of careful study by a number of competent scholars, who have produced for it highly useful dictionaries and grammatical studies. The primary goal of this book is therefore not so much to describe as to inculcate speech habits; matters of pronunciation and grammar which have, for the most part, been described thoroughly by previous writers are made the subject of an extensive set of drill materials, both printed and recorded.
This volume was prepared under an agreement with the Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, under the National Defense Education Act. The lessons which it contains were designed in the first instance for study with professional supervision and Yoruba-speaking instructors. The set of tapes which accompanies the course will be of value in supplementing work with a native teacher, and may also be used for study or review where no native speaker of the language is available. The tapes were prepared in the laboratory of the Foreign Service Institute, under the direction of Gabriel Cordova.
Most of the Yoruba sentences in this course were provided by Qlal^ye Aremu and Josiah Sjmaren, with some additional materials being provided by Alexander Edwards and Samuel Adebonojo. In addition, Aremu and Edwards assumed important measures of responsibility in the revision of the original draft. The linguist in charge of the project was Earl W. Stevick, coordinator of the Special African Language Program.
The FSI staff members who have worked on the Yoruba text wish to express their gratitude for the existence of the dictionaries and other studies prepared in earlier years by Ida C. Ward, E. C. Rowlands, R. C. Abraham, Hans Wolff, and the Church Missionary Society. Consultations with Robert Armstrong and Mark Hanna Watkins also proved most helpful. Without the labors of all these scholars, this book could not have appeared. The Foreign Service Institute of course assumes responsibility for the present work.

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Африканские языки;Йоруба