On an ordinary day at a junior secondary school in southeastern Nigeria, an Igbo language teacher walks into a classroom and begins the lesson with a greeting. When the learners greet her in unison ...

THERE has been growing concern over the possible extinction of Igbo language, and by extension, Igbo culture as a result of neglect by Igbo leaders and parents. The importance of Igbo language is ...

Ọnụọgụgụ bụ ihe dị oke mkpa n'asụsụ Igbo. Ya mere na BBC Igbo gakwuru ndị na-azụ ahịa n'Abuja ka ha tụgharịa ụfọdụ ọnụọgụgụ n'Igbo. Ọnụọgụgụ ndị dịka 'Million', Billion' na Trillion' bụ ego a na ...

Communicating in one’s mother tongue does not indicate that one cannot speak or understand other languages, including the English language. But the interest shown in the deployment of the English ...

UMUAHIA—Worried by the threat of extinction of Igbo language, Igbo Women Assembly, IWA, has rolled out action plans to stave off the danger and promote the use of Igbo language as a major global means ...

Vincent Nwosu is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His research interests include prosody, phonetics, verbal arts, and documentation of endangered African ...

The University of Oxford, England, has introduced the teaching of Igbo Language as a course in the university. Igbo is spoken mainly by the Igbo people who occupy the South-east region of Nigeria and ...

Ńdébé pays homage to the old Nsibidi logographs, as well as Nwagu Aneke's proto-script, but is a unique, original, but more importantly, functional creation. Lottana Igwe-Odunze, a Nigerian woman has ...

As English language gains more prominence in both official and private circles in the country, ominous signs stab Yoruba, Igbo and many other indigenous languages in the face as less and less people ...