A Grammar of Izi, an Igbo Language-gctid87192

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A GRAMMAR OF IZI, AN IGBO LANGUAGE


THE IZI LANGUAGE

The Izi language is spoken by approximately 200 00 people in East-Central State of Nigeria. They live in an area around and to the east of Abakaliki, extending to the north just over the boundary between East-Central State and Benue-Plateau State, to the east as far as the State boundary and to the south to about twelve miles north of the Cross River.

All the people indigenous to this area recognize themselves as Izi and distinguish themselves from their neighbors. Though there are various clans and in spite of the fact that the whole group is scattered over quite a large area, only very minor language differences have been observed. It can be stated that within Izi there are no dialects.

It is closely related to neighboring Ezaa and Ikwo, the three forming a dialect cluster which can be regarded as constituting a language within the Igbo language group, which may, for convenience, be called North-eastern Igbo. No previous study of any of these three dialects is known to the authors.

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