Remii:
Oyo is spoken by half of osun people, all iwo, ejigbo osogbo, ikirun, inisa, up to ila odo are oyo speaking people. fyi, oyo is the dialect closest to written yoruba.

I don't think this is entirely true. Iwo dialect my be close to Oyo but Ikirun, Iragbiji and other Yoruba dialect from that axis don't speak anything related or close to Oyo. My mum is Iwo while my dad is Iragbiji. I know the difference between the two dialect is like that of white and black thread.

babtoundey:


I don't think this is entirely true. Iwo dialect my be close to Oyo but Ikirun, Iragbiji and other Yoruba dialect from that axis don't speak anything related or close to Oyo. My mum is Iwo while my dad is Iragbiji. I know the difference between the two dialect is like that of white and black thread.

One key difference is the use of "s" vs "sh" sound in Oyo.

9jakool:


One key difference is the use of "s" vs "sh" sound in Oyo.

Yoruba has got three variants of that fricative.

"S", "Sh", and "Ch"

When the linguists met to decide the orthography of the yoruba language, they decided to adopt the Sh sound for written Yoruba since it was in the middle.

scholes0:


Yoruba has got three variants of that fricative.

"S", "Sh", and "Ch"

When the linguists met to decide the orthography of the yoruba language, they decided to adopt the Sh sound for written Yoruba since it was in the middle.

I'm well aware that there exist 3 main dialectal variants of the sibilant fricative in Yoruba with the exception of "Z" in Olukumi. While Oyo and SY make the distinction between "S" and "Sh", this distinction isn't prominent in the speeches of much of Northern Osun.

9jakool:


I'm well aware that there exist 3 main dialectal variants of the sibilant fricative in Yoruba with the exception of "Z" in Olukumi. While Oyo and SY make the distinction between "S" and "Sh", this distinction isn't prominent in the speeches of much of Northern Osun.

I don't get what the bolded means? oyo and Standard Yoruba makes a distinction between S and SH or not?

scholes0:


I don't get what the bolded means? oyo and Standard Yoruba makes a distinction between S and SH or not?

Well I said they do

babtoundey:


I don't think this is entirely true. Iwo dialect my be close to Oyo but Ikirun, Iragbiji and other Yoruba dialect from that axis don't speak anything related or close to Oyo. My mum is Iwo while my dad is Iragbiji. I know the difference between the two dialect is like that of white and black thread.

I am from the same place as you, Inisa, I also attended schools at Ikirun and Osogbo, I can tell you that we speak Oyo in that area. Iwo may be close to Oyo, just as Iseyin or Ibarapa, but the don't speak the same dialect as Oyo. The reason why the written Yoruba is close to Oyo dialect cannot be separated from influence of early Yoruba writers like Bishop Ajayi and Johnson that wrote first set of Yoruba books

Remii:
I am from the same place as you, Inisa, I also attended schools at Ikirun and Osogbo, I can tell you that we speak Oyo in that area. Iwo may be close to Oyo, just as Iseyin or Ibarapa, but the don't speak the same dialect as Oyo. The reason why the written Yoruba is close to Oyo dialect cannot be separated from influence of early Yoruba writers like Bishop Ajayi and Johnson that wrote first set of Yoruba books

I didn't say Iwo speaks the same dialect as Oyo, Ibadan and co. The difference between the two dialects, Iwo and Oyo, is very noticeable. In spite of the huge difference, it is still much similar and closer than Ikirun, Iragbiji e. t. c. It is still understandable if Iwo is grouped with Oyo dialect. But I find difficult to comprehend how the dialect of those from Ikirun axis will be categorized as Oyo. They speak something totally different.
This is just my own personal opinion

Remii:
I am from the same place as you, Inisa, I also attended schools at Ikirun and Osogbo, I can tell you that we speak Oyo in that area. Iwo may be close to Oyo, just as Iseyin or Ibarapa, but the don't speak the same dialect as Oyo. The reason why the written Yoruba is close to Oyo dialect cannot be separated from influence of early Yoruba writers like Bishop Ajayi and Johnson that wrote first set of Yoruba books

Well many speak Oyo now after decades of acculturation, but generations ago, you didn't. Even if you go to Ijebu-Ode, the common form of Yoruba spoken people there is standard Yoruba. I'm very familiar with Northern Osun and Southern kwara axis. And aren't places like Odo-Otin Ibolo? The founders of Inisa even came from Ofa area.

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9jakool:


Well I said they do

Oyo does not.
SY does.

Oyo is officially spoken.
No?

bigfrancis21:


First, Itshekiri is not a yoruba dialect. It is a full language on its own. Second, there is not but one bit of Itshekiri trace in Rivers state. Or, is this your sleek way of trying to claim oil-rich Rivers State?

itsekiri that is more mutually intelligible to yoruba than abakaliki and ikwerre are to igbo is not a dialect but ikwerre is?

scholes0:


loooool....

Ika, and even Izzi, Ezza, Afikpo, Ekpeye e.tc that are not even mutually intelligible to igbo are Igbo dialects according to this guy.... while Itsekiri is a Language (which I agree to btw)

no mind some of this openly biased ibo supremacists oo