The importance of language is for effective communication and when this is not achieved (maybe by one or both speakers’ inability to speak the language, inability to pronounce some words correctly or inability to understand the language being communicated correctly) there is always a misrepresentation of information. Yoruba as a language has so many words that are closely related; for instance, words that are the written the same way, almost pronounced the same way but different meanings, if such words are not pronounced on the premise of their tone marks (Àmì ohùn) then another meaning would be conveyed to the second person being communicated to, hence, the usefulness of tone marks in Yoruba language.

Tone marks otherwise called Àmì ohùn aids our understanding of the Yoruba language better because Yoruba language is one of the most interesting languages in the world, however, without tone marks it would be difficult to comprehend. Yoruba language is tonal, hence meaning of words and conversations are best conveyed using different pitch/tone of sounds while talking. These different tones are called Tone marks (Àmì ohùn). Tone marks (Àmì ohùn) are placed on the vowels (a e .......... read more on https://alawiiyeyoruba.com/importance-of-tone-marks-in-yoruba/

This should be in the education section.

Chomsky1967:
This should be in the education section.

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