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Re: "Igbo"

From:Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
Date:Monday, June 14, 2004, 23:25
> 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]. -- AA

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Mark P. Line <mark@...>'Igbo'
Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>