دراسة تقابلية لبعض المظاهر الصوتية في اللغة العربية و لغة يوربا

Abstract EN

This article with its applied method aims to study contrastively some of the vocal features in Arabic and Yorba to uncover the similar and different characteristics of both.

With this study, readers and scholars would be exposed to the degree of interaction between the two languages.

Yorba is one of the languages in the south western region of Nigeria.

It is a renown and recognized language by the Nigerian Federal government.

Arabic as, it is known to many, is a language that is spread because of Islam and it holy book.

It s a national language to more than 300million speakers according to an official survey on the population of the Arab World.

It is regarded generally as an Islamic language due to its close bound with Islam.

Among the conclusions of this study: some of the Arabic sounds have glottal letters and others do not exist in Yorba, examples are such as: Tha, Ha, Zal, Kha, Zay, Sad, Dhad, Tho, Zho, ‘Ain, Ghayn, Qaf.

In Yorba there are seven vowels, three of which are similar in Arabic: fathah, kasrah and dhammah, in contrast with vowel non-nasalized sounds in Yorba such as: a, i and u.

The rest have no similar sounds in Arabic.

Length of syllable in Arabic is from one to seven but in Yorba they are the smallest vocal units that are pronounceable once.