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Re: "Igbo"

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 16, 2004, 19:44
Quoting Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>:

> > At school today, I met a Nigerian who informed me the pronunciation of the > > name of his native language Igbo is [ibu], to my surprise. I thot it's > > [igb)o]... Or is this just a dialectal variation? > > A Nigerian professor of sociology here also says there is no [g] -- > though I get this info second-hand from friends who've taken his > class. They remember the prof pronouncing it as [ibo].
Am I right in assuming this is the language I'm used to see spelt as "Ibo"? One of the really big ones up there with Yoruba and Hausa? Andreas

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Mark P. Line <mark@...>'Igbo'