| Also Known As: Ibo
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Igbo (Igbo: Asụsụ Igbo) is a language spoken in Nigeria by around 20-25 million people, mainly the Igbo people making up the population of its speakers. The language is spoken especially in the southeastern region of Nigeria once identified as Biafra and parts of the extreme Southern regions (including the Niger Deltan regions) of Nigeria. The language was used by John Goldsmith as an example to justify deviating from the classical linear model of phonology as laid out in The Sound Pattern of English. It is written in the Latin alphabet along with the Nsibidi pictograms which is used by the Ekpe and other secret societies. Igbo is a tonal language. There are hundreds of different dialects and Igboid languages that the Igbo language comprises such as Ikwerre, Enuani (linguistics) and Ekpeye dialects.
Igbo has a number of dialects, distinguished by accent or orthography but almost universally mutually intelligible, including the Idemili Igbo dialect (the version used in Chinua Achebe's epic novel, Things Fall Apart), Bende, Owerri, Nkwerre, Ngwa, Umuahia, Nnewi, Onitsha, Awka, Abiriba, Arochukwu, Nsukka, Mbaise, Abba, Ohafia, Ika, Wawa, Okigwe Ukwa/Ndoki and Enuani. It is considered..... full article at Wikipedia |
