Wow, great sharing again. This is so informative, I appreciate. Learning Igbo, I was confused about this, because the Igbo Izugbe I learned in standardization never sounded like what I heard from various Igbos around me, anywhere. Nobody I encountered uses it, not even my parents. So I just figured that Igbos generally understand each other through compromise, so I listened to observe this and found it was true. It's amazing how Igbo of Anambra metropolitan area developed naturally seems to be the most widely understood till today. Although I would argue that the "Central Igbo" used by Ida C Ward still shares more patterns in common with the dialects of Imo State. Though it was not widespread as you said, and it was rather silly in retrospect to base Igbo Izugbe originally on Ward's artificial form, since it was such a limited area. My contention, however, is that I've come to learn that Igbo Izugbe today includes more from Igbo, as it has Anambra, Isu, Umuahia, and various loan words from different dialects.
Thank you so very much for your honest feedback. Your observations are in order nwannem! I will like you to clarify something in what you wrote: "I've come to learn that Igbo Izugbe today includes more from Igbo, as it has Anambra, Isu, Umuahia, and various loan words from different dialects." Please I don't really get what you meant here.
Thank you sir for this amazing research, it's so insightful. Please, I have a question. Do you know the exact names of the towns that Ida C. Ward claimed she extracted her Central Igbo from? I know she said she went to the Ezinehite/Ezinihitte group of Igbo between Owerri and Umuahia, but I have not been able to find the names of the towns, because they were not specified in the sources I read. My guess is that she went to what is today's Ezinihitte Mbaise, because that place is literally between Umuahia and Owerri as she described, but I am not certain on this. Please share if you have some idea, or have mentioned it somewhere else. God bless.
Yes, I haven't seen records that state the exact communities visited. But by estimation, as you've rightly pointed out, it should be the Mbaise area. What was mentioned in specific terms was her use of the Ohuhu dialect(s) from the Umuahia side. So that's our information at this time. Thanks again.
@@KachiAmobi Ok, and thanks again for the helpful information. Keep up the good work bro, these things need to be better documented for our people, and your videos will help a lot. All the best 👍🏽
Nice one bro. I don't see it as central Ìgbò even though that might be an easy name for it if there was not already a named Central Igbo (The one Ida Ward did). I personally call it School Ìgbò or Town Ìgbò.
Thank God for the past researches that had taken place. Your Anambra/Enugu Igbo is NOT the central Igbo my dear brother. Infact, there WAS NO CENTRAL IGBO as Igboland with its governments and trade, was NOT CENTRALIZED at ANY point in time. So you pitting 'Central Igbo' vs 'Igbo Izugbe' makes no sense. This is either ignorance or low key inferiority complex.
Wow, great sharing again. This is so informative, I appreciate. Learning Igbo, I was confused about this, because the Igbo Izugbe I learned in standardization never sounded like what I heard from various Igbos around me, anywhere. Nobody I encountered uses it, not even my parents. So I just figured that Igbos generally understand each other through compromise, so I listened to observe this and found it was true. It's amazing how Igbo of Anambra metropolitan area developed naturally seems to be the most widely understood till today. Although I would argue that the "Central Igbo" used by Ida C Ward still shares more patterns in common with the dialects of Imo State. Though it was not widespread as you said, and it was rather silly in retrospect to base Igbo Izugbe originally on Ward's artificial form, since it was such a limited area. My contention, however, is that I've come to learn that Igbo Izugbe today includes more from Igbo, as it has Anambra, Isu, Umuahia, and various loan words from different dialects.
Thank you so very much for your honest feedback. Your observations are in order nwannem!
I will like you to clarify something in what you wrote:
"I've come to learn that Igbo Izugbe today includes more from Igbo, as it has Anambra, Isu, Umuahia, and various loan words from different dialects."
Please I don't really get what you meant here.
Thank you sir for this amazing research, it's so insightful. Please, I have a question. Do you know the exact names of the towns that Ida C. Ward claimed she extracted her Central Igbo from? I know she said she went to the Ezinehite/Ezinihitte group of Igbo between Owerri and Umuahia, but I have not been able to find the names of the towns, because they were not specified in the sources I read. My guess is that she went to what is today's Ezinihitte Mbaise, because that place is literally between Umuahia and Owerri as she described, but I am not certain on this. Please share if you have some idea, or have mentioned it somewhere else. God bless.
Yes, I haven't seen records that state the exact communities visited. But by estimation, as you've rightly pointed out, it should be the Mbaise area. What was mentioned in specific terms was her use of the Ohuhu dialect(s) from the Umuahia side.
So that's our information at this time.
Thanks again.
@@KachiAmobi Ok, and thanks again for the helpful information. Keep up the good work bro, these things need to be better documented for our people, and your videos will help a lot. All the best 👍🏽
Thank you. God bless you.
There is nothing like CENTRAL IGBO
What we have is OLU MBA ND IGBO IZUGBE
Some olu mba are central in ease of comprehension and spread.
Nice one bro. I don't see it as central Ìgbò even though that might be an easy name for it if there was not already a named Central Igbo (The one Ida Ward did). I personally call it School Ìgbò or Town Ìgbò.
You're there
Thank God for the past researches that had taken place.
Your Anambra/Enugu Igbo is NOT the central Igbo my dear brother. Infact, there WAS NO CENTRAL IGBO as Igboland with its governments and trade, was NOT CENTRALIZED at ANY point in time.
So you pitting 'Central Igbo' vs 'Igbo Izugbe' makes no sense. This is either ignorance or low key inferiority complex.
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Only you knows the garbage you're writing here.
@@KachiAmobi anambra igbo is not general or central igbo. Some of us are more historically informed.
What is historical about an empirical situation anybody can observe.
SMH.