A HISTORY OF TWO MONARCHIES

Igala History: Áyẹ́gbà Ọma Ìdoko     The biography of Àtá Áyẹ́gbà Ọma Ìdoko is anchored on both oral and written claims by different sources. Oral history has it that his mother was called Ífùnányá and that she hailed from Énúgu Ezìkè, an Ìgbò community across the eastern border where, for over five hundred years, the Igala have had a commanding presence.       On his father’s side, he descended from the Àbùtù Ẹ̀jẹ̀ […]

Numbers Pool – Álúkà

Historical Background Since the beginning of time, the Ígáláà have evolved a system of counting that  stretches to large numbers beyond the imagination of the modern Igala youths and adults. Through this ancient system, Igala ancestors, who were predominantly farmers, were able to take record of their properties: the heaps they constructed in one day, the harvest of yam tubers, sacks of grains, and, of course, the cowries earned at the end of a market […]

Parts of Speech: Pronouns

        Pronouns are words that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this ). In the Igala language, there are  [insert text here]… NÀ   ÒMÌ, U; ÙWẸ̀,  Ẹ̀;  ÀWÀ (à) or À;  ÀMÀ, MÀ;   I, ÒÑWÙ; ÑWU   Sometimes, you choose not to mention nouns. Instead, you use other words in their places. Those ‘other words’ are […]

Igala Grammar: Homographs

    In English language, two words are said to be  ̀homographs’  if they are spelt the same way but have different meanings. In Igala speech, a single word, pronounced with different tone pitches, produces a set of homographs – words spelt the same way but vary in meanings;   Example 1:      From the unmarked word, ‘ọko,’ a speaker calls it using different tones; he can create three different words with three different meanings. ọ́kọ́ […]

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