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This is the first comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of the Igbo language, one of the three national languages of Nigeria. Michael J. C. Echeruo, a native speaker of Igbo, focuses on basic words and phrases that the twenty million speakers of Igbo encounter in everyday life--in conversation and in Igbo texts. Recognizing the absence of a single dominant dialect, the author collects words from all of them, with emphasis on the predominant Owerri and Onitsha dialects. The book also includes an English-Igbo index listing Igbo equivalents for particular English words. In the first section of this dictionary, thorough entries for each of some four thousand Igbo discrete word-forms feature Igbo headwords in bold type followed by grammatical class, tone, dialect zone, English meanings, Igbo examples, variants, etymology, and special notes where necessary. Verbs are listed under their consonantal stems as well as in combined entries that include the nouns that complete their meanings. The dictionary s second part is a convenient English index that refers the user to the closest Igbo synonyms for English words. With a helpful introduction and appendices, this volume will be a primary reference work for both native and non-native users of the Igbo language.Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300073070
ISBN-139780300073072
eBay Product ID (ePID)951854
Product Key Features
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameIgbo-English Dictionary : A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Igbo Language, with an English-Igbo Index
Publication Year1998
SubjectAfrican Languages (See Also Swahili)
TypeLanguage Course
Subject AreaForeign Language Study
AuthorMichael J. C. Echeruo
SeriesYale Language Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.7 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN97-048791
Dewey Edition21
Target AudienceScholarly & Professional
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal96/.332321
Lc Classification NumberPl8261.4.E44 1998