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Title: Igbo-English English-Igbo Dictionary and Phrasebook (Hippocrene Dictionary & Phrasebook) by Nicholas Awde ISBN: 0-7818-0661-5 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Igbo Dictionary
Comment: I am 50% Nigerian Igbo, and was born in Imo State. I grew up in America, and had lost my native language. This book has helped me regain the language I thought was gone forever. I think everyone interested in the Igbo Language should read it.
Rating: 2
Summary: There is room for improvement
Comment: This book is a welcome addition to a very scanty body of work about the Igbo language. The grammar and pronunciation are very well explained, there are good illustrative examples, and the phrasebook is extensive and useful. There is also interesting material about the Igbo history and culture.
However, the included dictionary gives no guidance about the tones used in pronouncing the words it defines. Words are NOT marked for tone in the dictionary. Since tone is phonemic in Igbo (as in Chinese, for instance) this is a very serious limitation and it prevents the reader from building up a vocabulary by browsing the dictionary and plugging new words into sentences introduced in the phrasebook and grammar sections. If there was a lot of other material available for learning Igbo one wouldn't need to use the dictionary this way, but there really isn't.
Hopefully in a future edition the authors will rectify this sin of omission.
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Title:Talk Now! Igbo ASIN: B0000899NT Publisher: EuroTalk Pub. Date: 31 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.99 |
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Title: Igbo-English Dictionary : A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Igbo Language, with an English-Igbo Index by Michael J. C. Echeruo ISBN: 0300073070 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Things Fall Apart : A Novel by CHINUA ACHEBE ISBN: 0385474547 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe ISBN: 0385014805 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Igbo Basic Course by Foreign Service Institute ISBN: 0884326071 Publisher: Audio-Forum Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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