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Encyclopedia > Ibo language

Igbo is a language spoken in Nigeria by about 18 million speakers (the Ibo), especially in the southeastern region once identified as Biafra. The language was used by John Goldsmith as an example to justify going away from the classical linear model of phonology as laid out in The Sound Pattern of English. It is written in the Roman script. Igbo words are spoken with varying tones. The language is rapidly being replaced by Nigerian pidgin language in the cities.


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  • Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=IGR)

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Ethnologue report for language code:ibo (209 words)
It is also spoken in the northeast of Delta State and the southeast of Rivers State, Oyigbo LGA and the Opobo part of Opobo-Nkoro LGA, and alongside Ibani in Bonny LGA.
The standard literary form is developing based on the dialects of Owerri and Umuahia, omitting the nasality and aspiration found in those dialects.
The main trade language of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo states.
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