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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
This present study is the result of observations I made on the speech of Mr. S. M. Ahamba, while he was at the School in 1946. Mr. Ahamba is an Igbo, and was born and brought up in Lorji, a small rural village situated near the western bank of the Imo River, some twenty miles east-south-east of Owerri town. He has spent some time at Obosi and Awka, both in Onitsha Province, and also at Egbu, three miles from Owerri. It must be emphasized, however, that the type of Igbo he speaks is not that of Owerri town itself. It could be most nearly described as the Lorji dialect spoken by a school teacher who has spent some years away from home.
* The tonal behaviour of the two classes of verbs (see below) is, in certain forms, uniformly different.
† See Ward, I. C., An Introduction to the Ibo Language, Heffer and Sons, Ltd., 1936Google Scholar
* See Fig. II (a).
† See Fig. II (b).
‡ See Fig. II (c).
§ See Fig. II (d).
|| See Fig. I (a).
¶ See Fig. I (b).
* The aspirate is for convenience classified with the fricatives, though this must not be taken to indicate that the sound is a glottal fricative.
† See Fig. III (a).
‡ r is listed with the fricatives on account of the possibility of nasality.
§ See Fig. III (b).
