MKPỤRỤ EDEMEDE IGBO (IGBO ALPHABETS): Alphabets, Pronunciation and Examples

The importance and advantage of learning as many languages as we can cannot be over-emphasized. It broadens your ability to communicate with and understand a wide range of persons. It broadens your world view because each language cannot be separated from the world-view of the owners of the language and it makes you have a better view of the world in general.

In that vein, this article, we want to begin with the basics of learning the Igbo Language. This is the Alphabets. The Alphabets is the basic of all languages. Thus, in this article, we are going to present to you the 36 IGBO ALPHABETS as well as how they are used in some Igbo words and their equivalent sound in the English language

It is important for the reader to understand that there are some Igbo Alphabets that have a special peculiarity to the Igbo language. In other words, their sound does not have an equivalent in English. This mostly occur in digraphs (a pair of letters representing a single phoneme)

 

 

1.     A/a                               Dịka Aka (hand).                        like A in Art.  

 

2.       B/b                            Dịka Bịa (Come).                        like B in Baby.   

 

3.       CH/ch                      Dịka Uche (Mind)                  like CH in Church.

 

4.       D/d                          Dịka Di (Husband)                        like D in Daddy.

 

5.       E/e                           Dịka Ede (Cocoyam)                    like E in Earth. 

 

6.       F/f                            Dịka Efere (Plate)                         like F in Forgive. 

 

7.       G/g                           Dịka Nga (Prison)                        like G in God. 

 

8.       GB/gb                      Dịka Igbo (Igbo Language)         -

 

9.       GH/gh                      Dịka Ghọta (Understand)             -

 

10.   GW/gw                      Dịka Agwa (Beans)                       -

 

11.   H/h                            Dịka Ihe (Light)                             like H in Holy. 

 

12.   I/i                               Dịka Ite (Pot)                                like E in Ego.  

 

13.   Ị/ị                               Dịka Ịgba (Drum)                         like I in Income. 

 

14.   J/j                               Dịka Ji (Yam)                                like J in John.

 

15.   K/k                             Dịka Kedụ (How)                          like K in King.

 

16.   KP/kp                         Dịka Akpị (Scorpion)                    -

 

17.   KW/kw                      Dịka Ukwe (Song)                         -

 

18.   L/l                              Dịka Nlekọta (To look after)         like L in Lion.

 

19.   M/m                          Dịka Mma (Beauty)                        like M in Man.

 

20.   N/n                            Dịka Nne (Mother)                         like N in None.

 

21.   Ṅ/ṅ                            Dịka Aṅụrị (Joy)                                -

 

22.   NW/nw                     Dịka Nwa (Child)                               -

 

23.   NY/ny                        Dịka Onyinye (Gift)                          -

 

24.   O/o                            Dịka Obodo (Town)                       like O in Open.

 

25.   Ọ/ọ                            Dịka Ọkụ (Fire)                              like O in Order.

 

26.   P/p                             Dịka Pụta (Come out)                    like P in Pay.

 

27.   R/r                             Dịka Ụra (Sleep)                             like R in Ring. 

 

28.   S/s                              Dịka Nsị (Faeces)                           like S in Sing.

 

29.   SH/sh                         Dịka Ịsha (Crayfish)                 like Sh in Shake.

 

30.   T/t                              Dịka Iteghete (Nine)                       like T in Tin.

 

31.   U/u                            Dịka Ugbo (Farm)                           like U in Uber.

 

32.   Ụ/ụ                            Dịka Ụtọ (Sweetness)                     -

 

33.   V/v                             Dịka Vam (Fast Movement)           like V in Vine.

 

34.   W/w                          Dịka Uwe (Cloth)                             like W in Wing.

 

35.   Y/y                             Dịka Oyi (Cold)                              like Y in Yes.

 

36.   Z/z                              Dịka Eze (Teeth)                             like Z in Zebra.

 

 

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