Igbo people in the house, I hail, oh! Something's been bothering me. @topic, do you guys bear Chidinma or Chidimma? Are they the same thing? Because I've seen the two. Thanks in anticipation.

Chidinma is the correct spelling

Beauty or good is spelt as "nma"
While an old woman or mother is spelt as "mma"

Chidinma means God is good.

It is chidimma not chidinma.
In Igbo, N and M are not found in a word.
Mma is a word.
But can only be seen in a 'phrasal-word' like oMe-Na-ala.
N and M behave like vowel but they are not vowel in Igbo language (ie myiri-udaume).

This is dumb. Are you all really about to have an argument over an alphabetic and orthographic system that isn't even ours? For goodness sake, the two are the exact same, just spelled differently. Depending on the dialectal region you're from, one spelling may be favored over the other.

NeduLuiZ:
Chidinma is the correct spelling

Beauty or good is spelt as "nma"
While an old woman or mother is spelt as "mma"

Chidinma means God is good.

Kee ife i na-ako?

adeitoro:
It is chidimma not chidinma.
In Igbo, N and M are not found in a word.
Mma is a word.
But can only be seen in a 'phrasal-word' like oMe-Na-ala.
N and M behave like vowel but they are not vowel in Igbo language (ie myiri-udaume).

I kowalu ofuma.

ChinenyeN:
This is dumb. Are you all really about to have an argument over an alphabetic and orthographic system that isn't even ours? For goodness sake, the two are the exact same, just spelled differently. Depending on the dialectal region you're from, one spelling may be favored over the other.

Nodu ani!

ChinenyeN:
This is dumb. Are you all really about to have an argument over an alphabetic and orthographic system that isn't even ours? For goodness sake, the two are the exact same, just spelled differently. Depending on the dialectal region you're from, one spelling may be favored over the other.

Wait, so, mma and nma mean the same thing?

Yes. They mean the same thing, with respect to the name, Chidinma.

PHgirl:
Igbo people in the house, I hail, oh! Something's been bothering me. @topic, do you guys bear Chidinma or Chidimma? Are they the same thing? Because I've seen the two. Thanks in anticipation.

@OP why dont you ask your people over there in PH since you claim to be a PHgirl, or do they not speak Igbo in PH again or are PH/Ikwerre people not answering Chidinma or Chidinma? Creating useless thread any how.

Francman:
Kee ife i na-ako?

nwanne cool'o down

NeduLuiZ:
nwanne cool'o down

Udo

Francman:
Kee ife i na-ako?

O du egwu really

ChinenyeN:
This is dumb. Are you all really about to have an argument over an alphabetic and orthographic system that isn't even ours? For goodness sake, the two are the exact same, just spelled differently. Depending on the dialectal region you're from, one spelling may be favored over the other.

smh

PHgirl:
Igbo people in the house, I hail, oh! Something's been bothering me. @topic, do you guys bear Chidinma or Chidimma? Are they the same thing? Because I've seen the two. Thanks in anticipation.

From my understanding, 'Chidinma' means "God is good"

while 'Chidimma' means "God is good TO ME"

some even bear 'ChiMdinma' meaning, "MY God is good"
or 'ChiMdimma' meaning MY God is good TO ME"

There is no wrong or right spelling, its only wrong when you use a variation for an individual with another variation of the name. I know most bearers are always fast to correct the caller on which particular one they bear despite that fact that the differences are slight.

Eke40seven:


From my understanding, 'Chidinma' means "God is good"

while 'Chidimma' means "God is good TO ME"

some even bear 'ChiMdinma' meaning, "MY God is good"
or 'ChiMdimma' meaning MY God is good TO ME"

There is no wrong or right spelling, its only wrong when you use a variation for an individual with another variation of the name. I know most bearers are always fast to correct the caller on which particular one they bear despite that fact that the differences are slight.

Chidimma = God is good to ME?

How?

You were probably thinking Chi diri m mma/nma or chi di m nma/mma.

Nma = mma = good. Depends on where in Igboland you're from, and the spelling/orthography you choose to go with.

Radoillo:


Chidimma = God is good to ME?

How?

You were probably thinking Chi diri m mma/nma or chi di m nma/mma.

Nma = mma = good. Depends in where in Igboland you're from, and the spelling/orthography you choose to go with.

May be when I break it down you will understand.
like in my dialect, we say "nma" for "good" or "beauty" but I know people with the name "Chidimma".
This is the breakdown
Chi-dim-nma--- But when you pronounce together as one word as in many instances in our language, the 'n' becomes silent. Note, its just the case in my situation.
Dialects and all your explanation could apply as you explained in YOUR example.

And what is "chidiri" sounds funny.

Eke40seven:

May be when I break it down you will understand.
like in my dialect, we say "nma" for "good" or "beauty" but I know people with the name "Chidimma".
This is the breakdown
Chi-dim-nma--- But when you pronounce together as one word as in many instances in our language, the 'n' becomes silent. Note, its just the case in my situation.
Dialects and all your explanation could apply as you explained in YOUR example.

And what is "chidiri" sounds funny.

I should have written chi diiri m, instead of chi diri m. Yes, chi diiri m mma doesn't sound funny at all. Means God is good to/for me.

MbaanabaraAgu:


@OP why dont you ask your people over there in PH since you claim to be a PHgirl, or do they not speak Igbo in PH again or are PH/Ikwerre people not answering Chidinma or Chidinma? Creating useless thread any how.

I don't live in PH and I'm not from Ikwerre.

You are wrong. That's my name and I use 'Nma' because WAEC made that error and to keep my documents safe,I continued with it.

NeduLuiZ:
Chidinma is the correct spelling

Beauty or good is spelt as "nma"
While an old woman or mother is spelt as "mma"

Chidinma means God is good.

Had this argument in the office. I do know most people say chidinma. But most people could be wrong . Still not sure if Chidimma is correct and Chidinma wrong.

To my own understanding of Igbo language and grammar, it's CHIDIMMA.

MMA = good, fine, pleasant
NMA is grammatically incorrect in Igbo language, it's a form of anglicising 'MMA'

But where is lalasticlala sef now

Chidimma is the grammatically correct spelling of the name. According to Mazi Onwu's committee on Igbo Izugbe, M will follow M (immediately) in a word while N follows N (immediately) in a word.
Eg. Mma (Good, beauty, knife), Nna (Father), Nne (mother), mmanu (oil) , nnu (salt), Nnunu (bird), mmiri (water).

Different dialects have their traditional ways of spelling but it follows from above when you're looking for the grammatically correct spellings.

It seems ChidiNma is the most wrongly spelled name in Igbo language.
Correct spelling for emphasis is ChidiMMA. (God is good).

The one u choose

Chidimma is the correct word/name.

There's nothing like Chidinma or nma in Igbo language.

All na correct depending on how your parents want to call you

Chi-di-nma is the correct pronunciation

Chidinma is the correct and widely accepted spells.

Incidentally "beauty" and "knife" are spelt exactly the same way in Igbo.

Hmmmm. I think there is a lesson there somewhere.

Chidinma is correct

Definitely Chidimma. I so much love this name. It's my gf's name.

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