THE SEARCH FOR A YORUBA ORTHOGRAPHY SINCE THE 1840S: OBSTACLES TO ...

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THE SEARCH FOR A YORUBA ORTHOGRAPHY SINCE THE 1840S: OBSTACLES TO THE CHOICE OF THE ARABIC SCRIPT ISAAC ADEJOJU OGUNBIYI … the conference of 1875 did not by any means settle the problems of Yoruba orthography. Some of the problems that engaged the attention of the earlier scholars are still very much with us.1 It is evident from the quotation above that the question of an orthography for the Yoruba language was all but settled by 1875 when the Church Missionary Society convened a con- ference to put finishing touches to the Romanized Yoruba orthography on which Samuel Ajayi Crowther and a host of others (Christian clergymen and specialist linguists) had la-

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