Reading and Writing Obolo

Reading and writing Obolo becomes very easy when one becomes familiar with the orthography.

The alphabet chat for Obolo is as shown below:

Obolo is a tone language. It has four tones: low, mid, high, rising and falling tones. In Obolo standard orthography, only the low tone and falling tone are indicated; others are not indicated. Again, tones are indicated only on the first syllable of verbs but not on the other syllables, except where it it's necessary to clear ambiguity. In such cases, an authoritative text will show the way to go.