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iconize:
Nothing. Just asking after an e-pal.

What?

gatiano:
where are the numbers 0 to 9 or 0 to 10. it is very/most important. life is mathematics, he who lacks the basic concept of mathematics will eventually be a slave. he who determines the radius or the diameter, rules or control the circumference. the number figures, hundreds, thousands, millions, billions, trillions. i pray it will be different from the latin ooo.
there are 120 elements or compounds that make up the planet, only 92 is known, the 92 elements must be given in this language.

GOD is the first, without GOD there won't be anything. GOD in Nsibidi.

if you could make and make some research back from home, i'm from the elders from home, they will tell you its better from right to left.
why do i keep emphasizing on this right to left thing? it turns out that the blackman's brain function from right to left, we have seen some many black people that after so much schooling, they could not read or write except their names. our brains work in accordance with the movement of the earth.

In the document it states there were n multiple directions of writing nsibidi.

Recreated.

A brand new one.

onitshaigbo:
This is typical British propaganda to paint the Igbos as uncivilised savages, when we're actually Jews, the chose people of God, who will be redeemed in an era when we Jews will no longer have to work, but will live like kings and spend all our days worshipping God, while the non-Jews, like the British and other tribes of Nigeria will be willingly serving us Jews like servants because that's why God has created them in the first place.

Lose this fantasy or you'll lose yourself, if you haven't already.

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cheruv:
though this is good am not quite impressed..
the script should be purely ideographic not a mix of alphabets and ideograms.like
1]chidiebere ::::this should ve been represented by the ideograms for chi and ebere with addition of marks on/around the "chi" ideogram representing the verb "di"
2]Chiamaka:::: this likewise is represented by the ideograms for 'God' and 'beautiful' .those two ideograms when put together tells the reader that God is beautiful/Chiamaka

these two examples are enough to convey my intentions and expectations of this nsibiri script. this would enable our people to
1]save time and effort... the time I'd use to write a name like ikechukwu would be reduced to that I'd use for 2 ideograms denoting ike(power) and Chukwu(great God)
2]encourage calligraphy among our people
3]encourage creativity and artistic reasoning among our folk
4]encourage literacy kos people only need to look at the ideogram to understand what's on ground

I get what you mean, but it would be very difficult to learn the amount of characters that would be needed to represent every word in Igbo, that's point 1. 2. The script is split to the verb root, so Chukwu is actually 'chi' and 'ukwu', it makes it easier to remember. 3. How will particles be represented? Like in 'diri' "carry on", the 'ri' is not a word on its own and would have to be represented, it would add even more headache to make every possible Igbo particle into a character, instead of just having an alphabet that helps with that. 4. What happens when an Igbo person inevitably forgets a character? 5. How will people learn the reading of a character without referring to English?

The author of the blog explains it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5f1an210zc1oznt/63616534-Ikpo-Nsibidi-Igbo.pdf?dl=0

She looks like his daughter or grand daughter. Weird.

New writing.

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Igbo names

cheruv:
this is quite interesting
I've always maintained that Latin isn't useful for tonal lingos..of which Igbo and Chinese are good examples.this even made me to try and learn Chinese..so that I can be able to develop hanchi just like the Koreans and Japanese have hanja and kanji respectively.
pls the developers should make it entirely ideographic.. so that words like akwa,egbe,oke whose meanings change based on tones can be easily distinguished.
long live nsibiri!!
viva regna magna del Igbo Terra!!

I guess no need for a Chinese derived script now, Igbo and other Cross River languages has had it's own script since!

ROSSIKE:
This should be compulsory teaching for kids from primary school up.

Good idea, that would definitely spread knowledge, just like the resurrection of Tifinagh among the Tamazight (Berber) speakers in Morocco.

Chiwude:
Ezeagu, Eze Ndigbo na omenala. I congratulate you for bringing this good news to limelight. So the Nsibidi writing can be brought back to life. Wonderful.

Not only can it be, it has been.

Chiwude:
Wow! Really wonderful. The Society For Promoting Igbo Culture should pick up the gauntlet from this guy and source for more nsibidi signs. Kudos to this guy. He deserves a national award.
OP front page abeg. Nigerians must hear this.

Definitely, that's one of the missions I believe, but I think if they've carried it this far they can do it on their own.

PAnaceA7:
They offer sacrifices,we don't besides how does that help this thread

Lol

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PAnaceA7:
Catholics do not worship idols..... The use of images helps one to reflect on the person or thing depicted... It's just like keeping the pictures of a dead love one.... Do you call it idolatry

That's exactly what idolatry is, at least, what people who are accused of idolatry do.

Christian idol worshippers casting demons out of innocent children.

https://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Nightline/abc_Church_One_the_ceremony_FF_090518_ssh.jpg

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Christian Idol Worshippers flogging themselves raw for their idol.

https://www.technocrazed.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Self-Flagellation-Christians-Phillipines.jpg

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Catholic Christian Idol being worshipped

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FlintGuevara:
Well, I'm interested in learning it, but as you rightly posited, most people (my humble self included) are yet to make any attempt whatsoever at learning nsibidi.

The list of nsibiri and their meaning have been posted on the blog for download.

This is their facebook page, questions are answered there. https://www.facebook.com/Nsibiri

FlintGuevara:
I so love the nsibidi writing system, but it would take ages before one can master or even learn to read and write it.

It seems so, but I haven't actually seen anyone attempt to learn it.

More:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0201/0946/products/jm_large.jpg?v=1406209768%27

Nsibidi T-Shirts

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From: http://www.cavenetomi.com/collections/nsibidi-series

New.

A new system.

Gustavus Vassa (Olaudah Equiano) clarified this himself, and this was someone who was sold into chattel slavery.

Slavery was a way of getting rid of people without punishment of death. Criminals were often given a choice between being a ritual slave (in places ritual slavery was recognised) being put to death, or outcast (which probably turned to selling people off to traders/raiders in the European era). It's important to note that the majority of Igbo people didn't end up on the other side of the ocean due to these systems, rather they were captured in raids, so the majority of Igbo people were enslaved not because they were criminals, but because they were captured.

I agree. Anyone for anything more to contribute?

Reads like they're trying their hardest to give all the credit to American organisations, but that's a minor point.

Omarbah: Again , common culture can be built if the political power is shared and every group is represented. The common culture doesn't just happen, it is something built overtime. If all the regions of Nigeria were sharing power since its conceptions, ethnic differences would not be as strong as they are today. I gave you the example of Senegal which is ethnically diverse but does have a common culture built over the years.

Cote d'Ivoire is hardly war torn, yes they did have a civil war but that did not let to the massive destruction of infrastructure. Their economy grew by 9.8% in 2012 and 8.3% in 2013. And the African Development Bank just transferred its seat there from Tunisia, I don't think they would've done so if it was "war torn". Liberia on the other hand is in really shape. But that's besides the point, the war in those two countries did not oppose Fulanis and Maninkas. Both groups were treated as foreigners in those two countries. They actually had to work together.

Yes it can but if it hasn't happened after 50-100 years in some cases then it's probably a lost cause. If there was a sense of cohesiveness and togetherness then there hardly be need for 'power sharing'.