Ibibio language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

Ibibio language belongs to the Niger-Congo and Benue-Congo language groups that is native to over 10 million people in the Akwa Ibom State and Cross River States of Nigeria. The Efik and Annang are dialects of the Ibibio language. Other Ibibio language clusters in the state include Oron and Itu mbon-uso. Image File history File links Incubator-notext. ... Wikipedia (IPA: , or ( ) is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. ... Incubator logo The Wikimedia Incubator is a wiki run by Wikimedia Foundation. ... Akwa Ibom is a state in Nigeria. ... A language family is a group of languages related by descent from a common proto-language. ... The Niger-Congo languages constitute one of the worlds major language families, and Africas largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages. ... In the classification of African languages, Volta-Congo is the major branch (in terms of number of languages) of the Niger-Congo phylum. ... The Benue-Congo group of languages constitutes the largest branch of the Niger-Congo language family, both in terms of sheer number of languages, of which 938 are known (not counting mere dialects), and in terms of speakers, numbering perhaps 550 million. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is an international standard for language codes. ... The Unicode Standard, Version 5. ... The Niger-Congo languages constitute one of the worlds major language families, and Africas largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages. ... The Niger-Congo languages constitute one of the worlds major language families, and Africas largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages. ... Akwa Ibom is a state in Nigeria. ... Cross River State is a coastal state in southeastern Nigeria, bordering Cameroon to the east. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... The Annang (also spelled Anaang) is a cultural and ethnic group that lives in the coastal southeast Nigeria. ... The Ibibio people are a tribe in the south-south-east of Nigeria. ...

Speech technology

Until now, not many speech synthesis applications exist for African tone languages. Working on this subject are Gibbon et al. (2006) and Bachmann (2006,2007), see references and BOSS (Speech synthesis).^[clarify]

Phrases

• Emesiere - Good Morning
• Esiere - Good night
• Aba die/ Aba di die - How are you
• Aba ke mmo - Where are you
• Abiong andong - I am hungry
• Idem mfo - How are you
• Idem asong - I'm fine
• Idem 'nsongo - I'm not well
• Amedi - Welcome (literal - You have come)
• Sosongo - Thankyou
• Akere die - What's your name
• Mma ma fi - I love you
• Ndiongo ke - I don't know
• Nsido - What is wrong/what is it
• Atweb atie - It's cold
• Eyo ada - It's sunny
• Ubak usen - Morning
• Usen - Day
• Uwem-eyo - Afternoon
• Mmbubreyo - Evening
• Okoneyo - Night
• Ini - Time
• Anie - Who
• Nso - What
• Ini eke - When
• Ntagha - Why
• Die - How
• Ufok Abasi - Church (House of God)
• Sanga sung - Go well (Goodbye)
• Ufok Nwed - School (House of Book)
• Ufok Ibok - Hospital (House of Medicine)
• Ka - Go
• Di - Come
• Ta - Eat
• Tie - Sit
• Uwemedimo - Life is Wealth (Uwem=Life, Edi=Is, Imo=Wealth)
• Abasi- God
• Mmekomabasi- I thank God

References

• O. E. Essien (1991): "The nature of tenses in African languages: a case study of the morphemes and their variants." In: Archiv Orientalni, Bd. 59, 1–11.
• Dafydd Gibbon, Eno-Aasi E. Urua und Moses Ekpenyong (2006): "Problems and solutions in African tone language Text-To-Speech." In: ISCA Workshop on Multilingual Speech and Language Processing (MULTILING 2006), Stellenbosch, South Africa: Center for Language and Speech Technology, Stellenbosch University, paper 014.
• Raymond G. Gordon, Hrsg. (2005): "Ethnologue: Languages of the World", Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X
• Kaufman, Elaine Marlowe (1972) Ibibio dictionary. Leiden: ASC / Cross River State University / Ibibio Language Board.
• Arne Bachmann (2006): "Ein quantitatives Tonmodell für Ibibio. Entwicklung eines Prädiktionsmoduls für das BOSS-Sprachsynthesesystem." Magisterarbeit, University of Bonn.
• Eno-Abasi E. Urua (2004): "Ibibio", Nr. 34/1 in Journal of the international phonetic association, International phonetic association, Kap. Ibibio. 105–109.

External links

• My Ibibio — language resources, including dictionary, books, proverbs, stories and history.
• PanAfrican L10n wiki page on Efik, Ibibio and Anaang
• Bachmann's Master Thesis
• BOSS-IBB documentation v0.1-r3