Igboid language
Igboid languages constitute a branch of the Volta–Niger language family.
Williamson and Blench conclude that the Igboid languages form a "language cluster" that are somewhat mutually intelligible
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility ...
spoken primarily by the
Ngwa people
The Ngwa people (natively: ''Nde Ṅgwà'' ) are an Igbo
group living in the southern part of Igboland. The Ngwa people are found predominantly in Abia State with a population of 314,840 in 1963. They cover and are the largest subgroup of Igbo ...
of
Abia state
Abia is a state in the Southeastern region of Nigeria. The state's capital is Umuahia and its most populous city is Aba.
Abia is bordered the west by Imo, east by Cross River, south by Rivers, northwest by Anambra and northeast by Enug ...
The ngwa dialect shares similar alphabets with the
Igbo
Igbo may refer to:
* Igbo people, an ethnic group of Nigeria
* Igbo language, their language
* anything related to Igboland, a cultural region in Nigeria
See also
* Ibo (disambiguation)
* Igbo mythology
* Igbo music
* Igbo art
*
* Igbo-Ukwu, a t ...
but with additional alphabet.
The tones are indicated with diacritics:
* the high tone is indicated by the absence of a diacritic: ;
* the low tone is indicated with the grave accent : ;
* the falling tone is indicated with the circumflex accent : ;
* the
downstep
Downstep is a phenomenon in tone languages in which if two syllables have the same tone (for example, both with a high tone or both with a low tone), the second syllable is lower in pitch than the first.
Two main kinds of downstep can be distin ...