awọ́n
a-(“agent-creating prefix”) +wọ́n(“to be expensive”)
awọ́n
Proposed to be derived fromProto-Yoruboid*à-ɓã, seeItsekiriàghan,Ifèàŋa,Igalaàma,Olukumiàwan,Àhànxà
àwọn
àwọn
| Yoruba varieties and languages:àwọn(“they, plural particle”) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Language family | Variety group | Variety/language | Subdialect | Location | Words |
| Proto-Itsekiri-SEY | Southeast Yoruba | Ào | Ìdóàní | ọ̀nọn | |
| EasternÀkókó | Àkùngbá | Àkùngbá Àkókó | ọ̀ghọn,ọ̀wọn | ||
| Ṣúpárè | Ṣúpárè Àkókó | ọ̀wọn | |||
| Ìjẹ̀bú | Ìjẹ̀bú | Ìjẹ̀bú Òde | ọ̀wọn | ||
| Ìkálẹ̀ (Ùkálẹ̀) | Òkìtìpupa | àghan | |||
| Ìlàjẹ (Ùlàjẹ) | Mahin | àghan | |||
| Oǹdó | Oǹdó | àghan | |||
| Ọ̀wọ̀ (Ọ̀ghọ̀) | Ọ̀wọ̀ (Ọ̀ghọ̀) | ọ̀ghọn | |||
| Usẹn | Usẹn | àghan | |||
| Ìtsẹkírì | Ìwẹrẹ | àghan | |||
| Olùkùmi | Ugbódù | àwan | |||
| Proto-Yoruba | Central Yoruba | Èkìtì | Èkìtì | Àdó Èkìtì | ị̀n-ọn |
| Àkúrẹ́ | Àkúrẹ́ | ị̀n-ọn | |||
| Mọ̀bà | Ọ̀tùn Èkìtì | ị̀n-ọn | |||
| Ifẹ̀ (Ufẹ̀) | Ilé Ifẹ̀ (Ulé Ufẹ̀) | ìghan | |||
| Ìjẹ̀ṣà (Ùjẹ̀ṣà) | Iléṣà (Uléṣà) | ìghan | |||
| Northwest Yoruba | Àwórì | Èbúté Mẹ́tà | àwọn | ||
| Ẹ̀gbádò | Ìjàká | ọ̀họn | |||
| Ìbàdàn | Ìbàdàn | àwọn | |||
| Ìbọ̀lọ́ | Òṣogbo (Òsogbo) | àwọn | |||
| Ìlọrin | Ìlọrin | àwọn | |||
| Ọ̀yọ́ | Ọ̀yọ́ | àwọn | |||
| StandardYorùbá | Nàìjíríà | àwọn | |||
| Northeast Yoruba/Okun | Ìyàgbà | Ìsánlú Ìtẹ̀dó | ìghọn | ||
| Owé | Kabba | ọ̀ghọn | |||
| Ede languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ifɛ̀ | Akpáré | àŋa | ||
| Note: This amalgamation of terms comes from a number of different academic papers focused on the unique varieties and languages spoken in the Yoruboid dialectal continuum which extends from eastern Togo to southern Nigeria. The terms for spoken varieties, now deemed dialects of Yorùbá in Nigeria (i.e. Southeast Yorùbá, Northwest Yorùbá, Central Yorùbá, and Northeast Yorùbá), have converged with those of Standard Yorùbá leading to the creation of what can be labeled Common Yorùbá (Funṣọ Akere, 1977). It can be assumed that the Standard Yorùbá term can also be used in most Nigerian varieties alongside native terms, especially amongst younger speakers. This does not apply to the other Nigerian Yoruboid languages of Ìṣẹkírì and Olùkùmi, nor the Èdè Languages of Benin and Togo. | |||||
| subject | object1 | emphatic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| affirmative | negative | ||||
| singular | 1st person | mo | n̄ /mi | mi | èmi |
| 2nd person | o | ọ /ẹ | ìwọ | ||
| 3rd person | ó | [pronoun dropped] | [preceding vowel repeated for monosyllabic verbs] /ẹ̀ | òun | |
| plural | 1st person | a | wa | àwa | |
| 2nd person | ẹ | yín | ẹ̀yin | ||
| 3rd person | wọ́n | wọn | wọn | àwọn | |
àwọ̀n