A Comparative Study of Standard Igbo Language and Igbo North Group of Dialect
Conference: ISA 22nd Annual International Conference (2025)
Presenter(s): Onyemaeki Emmanuel Ogboi, Emmanuel Chukwuebuka Njoku
Tags: 2025 Abakaliki Ebonyi State Ebonyi State University Abraka Delta State Delta State University Emmanuel Chukwuebuka Njoku Onyemaeki Emmanuel Ogboi
Abstract
The multi dialectal nature of the Igbo language according to early researchers views the Igbo situation as somewhat chaotic. In recent times, however, a more rigorous investigation of the dialectal issue has been undertaken by linguists, leading to the identification of some dialect areas as ‘main ‘dialects and others as ‘satellite’ dialects subsumed under them. Today, the continual need for mutual intelligibility among the Igbo speakers has re-awakened the interest of many scholars in the study of linguistic variation between dialect of speech communities, villages, towns, and cities of this particular language known as Igbo. The method adopted for this research is a comparative study. The study therefore seeks to investigate the dialectal differences between the standard Igbo and Nsukka speech communities of Igbo. The work adopts the theory of traditional dialectology developed by Gillierion and Edmont in the 19th century. The findings of the study reveal that both dialects maintain some significant differences in areas of phonology, morphology, but a slight difference in the area of sentences formation.
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