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A homophone are different words with the same sound, so stalk (secretly follow somebody) and stalk (the stem of a plant) are homophones in English. In many languages including Igbo you can make a sentence using homophones.

In order to participate you have to make a grammatically correct (maybe with some exceptions) sentence in Igbo using one sound and then translate it for the sake of others.. They can be no smaller than four words.

I'll start:

Ézì èzí èzí ézì Ézí ézí èzí

Trans: The foreign/wild pig showed the pig of Ezi town a proper family/household.

and

Há hà há háà ha ha

Trans: They left them and then the others left them.

Éké èké éké éké

Trans: The python created the division of/on Eke day

Could you do one with akwa?

Coooollllll.

Fun. What of aspirants and nasals? As part of the game, would we count them as homophones alongside normal stressed sounds, or are they to be counted separately?

Either way, here are mine...

Éhní Èhì èhní Èhì èhì éhní
Trans: Ehi's cow eluded Ehi on the day of the cow (festival).

Jí njì jìì jí jí
Trans: Ji quietly held on to the yam.

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Ñkà ñká ñká
Trans: The technology is aged.

Ákwhá àkwhá ákwhà àkwhà ákwà
Trans: The egg's cry ended the cloth's curse.

Mbu mbú bu mbú.

Trans: Which means that bygone is bygone.

Ibè íbê íbé
Trans: To cut mortgage in half.

odumchi: Mbu mbú mbu mbú.

Trans: Which means that history is history.

Mbu is "history" in Arochukwu?

I vòò ivò I vòò

Trans: After telling a fairy tale, tell another.

ChinenyeN: Mbu is "history" in Arochukwu?

Not exactly. "History" is èyè. Mbu means "before/past". The "history" in my translation is more akin to "bygone" and is not the same type of history as èyè.

Yọ yọọ yoo

Trans: Then he shook him.

O kpù okpú Ọkpu

Trans: He's wearing Okpu's hat.

Í vù ívú ívù í vù
Trans: You bear the load of your volume you carry.

odumchi: Not exactly. "History" is èyè. Mbu means "before/past". The "history" in my translation is more akin to "bygone" and is not the same type of history as èyè.

Oh okay.

ChinenyeN: Fun. What of aspirants and nasals? As part of the game, would we count them as homophones alongside normal stressed sounds, or are they to be counted separately?

Either way, here are mine...

Éhní Èhì èhní Èhì èhì éhní
Trans: Ehi's cow eluded Ehi on the day of the cow (festival).

Jí njì jìì jí jí
Trans: Ji quietly held on to the yam.

The aspirants are fine, so should nasals.

Cool.

Dí dí dìdì ídì
Trans: The husband's caretaker is certainly persevering.

Nnù nnú nnû nnú
Trans: 400 seems salty.

[quote author=nnenna.1]Could you do one with akwa?[/quote]Àkwá à kwá ákwà ákwá à kwá

Trans: The egg wove this cloth for crying as well.

Nnà yá náá yá ńnáá yá.

Trans: His father retrieved it single-handedly.

Ndí Ndidi dị́

Trans: Patience's food is there.

Ágá a gà àgà?

Trans: Are you asking how we will proceed?

Nw'Ikwerre, I kwèrè ị́kwere?

Trans: Ikwerre man, do you agree to surrender?

Ékè èkhé éké Èkhé èkhé
Trans: Eke then secured the python of Ekhe.

É kwé ékwé, è kwhé ékwè
Trans: Once the ekwe has been greeted, the chair is weaved.

Mmá mma mma má mma

Trans: Greetings to the great beauty

Ézè ézé è zé è zé ézé

Trans: The king avoids gears

[color=crimson]Á kpá àkpà ákpà àkpá, à kpá àkpà ákpà àkpá

Translation: When they carry the bag they're carrying, they'll as well sew the bag.[/color]

Whnèé èwhnè whné èwhné
Trans: Wander the ever vast expanse of space.

Á jû ájù àju
Trans: The antidote-induced vertigo is being rejected.

Ùhù hùú ùhù ùhu ùhu
Trans: The mongoose pleads [its fellow] mongoose in the wake of obverse repercussions.

Back then in secondary school,I receive the best in igbo award always....
meeting the op...hmmm
all I can say is...nne,o ga diri gi na nma

L'í kà líkà líkà, l'íì kà
Trans: You're still struggling, as you say.

Abha Àba abhàa abà.
Trans: Aba's bottle will be accommodating the surplus.

Ì ñe iñè i ñè iñe?
Trans: Are you derailing your own demand for attention?