₦airaland Forum

ChinenyeN:
I’m a bit confused on why you’ll state that your grouping is not based on an in-depth study, then ask what others think (all of whom have disagreed), yet you disagree with them all.

So on what basis are you disagreeing? Was your grouping actually based on an a deeper study? If so, why hide that? If you’ve got any novel information or considerations that informed your attempt to group the various lects, feel free to share it.

I don’t know about most, but I know there are at least a handful of NL’ders that would be interested in learning how, why and what informed your grouping.

Sufferingboy:
List prominent people from afikpo make I counter you.

Juliusmalema:
Eze Nri migrated from Ile Ife to Igboland and stopped eating Ewedu and Amala.......stirred with toilet broom .


This is one of the reasons I hardly read researches from Nigeria because it is weak, lazy articles with no substance and above all full of unsubstantiated gibberish.

ThumbzTNA:
Afikpo can be grouped with Ohafia, Arochukwu, Bende dialects of Abia. If you have ear for one, you'll understand the rest

Some words unique to this dialect are

Jokwa - Well-done, Good morning. Greetings generally

Kaa - Sorry

Okpogo - Money

Mie - blood
etc

Probz:
Izzi’s the most divergent of them all.

Probz:
4. Izzi (Abakaliki)
5. Ezza-Mgbo.-Ikwo
6. Afikpo (somewhere between 3 and 5 in terms of grouping)

Maybe if you added these your list would be a bit more comprehensive.

RedboneSmith:
This doesn't even begin to cover it.

ChinenyeN:
Yes, and there is such a thing as insufficient. A set of parameters that only defines two or three “main dialect groups” is insufficient for delineating all surviving lects.

SlayerForever:
Simy now level on goals with Zlatan Ibrahimovic.


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ChinenyeN:
That is an oversimplification. So I’ll ultimately say it’s unfounded. Here is the truth.

There are two major isoglosses. We will call them Isogloss-A and Isogloss-B; A & B for short. They are characterized by the following features:

1. Switch between h/r. A uses h, B uses r.
2. Switch between r/l. A uses r, B uses l.
3. Switch between h/f. A uses h, B uses f.
4. Switch between l/n. A uses l, B uses n.

Due to the the fact that the idea of “Igbo” is hyper focused on Anambra primarily and then Imo secondarily, the impression now exists that this isogloss dichotomy is an Anambra-Imo thing. By effect, it is treated as a “Northern Igbo”-“Southern Igbo” thing. This is far from the truth and the picture is more complex.

There are are communities in A that use f and not h (with regards to this switching). There are communities in B that use h and not r (with regards to this switching). Long story short, these two isoglosses are not sufficient enough to characterize all existing lects. Likewise, an “isogloss list” that separates Waawa, but does not separate the old Bende group of lects is not well-put-together.

So no. Igbo cannot be separated into only three major lectal groups. We will need more than that to fully characterize and delineate all the surviving lects.