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Exercises drawn from the corpus itself: tone, diacritics, proverbs, the glossary, Odù notation, towns and rulers, and the timeline. Progress is tracked in this browser only, in the tradition's own terms — depth and return, never a score or a rank.
Every question draws from the corpus itself and links to its source. No leaderboard, no streak, no score: the exercises are here for what they teach.
Identify the tone pattern of real minimal-pair words. Tone carries meaning in Yorùbá the way a consonant does; this drill works entirely from the written marks, since the app has no audio.
Given a tone pattern, pick the word that carries it — the inverse of tone practice, drilling recall rather than reading.
Match words that differ only in tone to their meanings — the real ambiguity untoned Yorùbá creates, from the corpus's own worked examples.
Restore subdots and tone marks to undiacritized Yorùbá glossary terms.
Restore the tone marks to a short proverb, then see its full literal, idiomatic and used-when reading.
Given the first half of a proverb, complete it, then see the literal gloss and meaning.
Match a proverb to the situation it is actually used in, not to its literal translation.
Spaced repetition over the corpus glossary, scheduled with SM-2 so review timing adapts to what you actually remember.
Read binary signatures and naming order from real Odù data. Not divination: no interpretation, no outcomes, no meanings — this teaches notation only.
Identify towns and their specific ruler titles — Aláàfin, Ọ̀ọ̀ni, Aláké and more are not interchangeable with "king."
Sequence historical events, with the corpus's own confidence markers surfaced — Reconstructed and Contested dates named as such.