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Igbo-English Dictionary : A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Igbo Language, with an English-Igbo Index | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael J. C. Echeruo
Publisher: Yale University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $63.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 1035536
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0300073070
Dewey Decimal Number: 496.332321
EAN: 9780300073072
ASIN: 0300073070
Publication Date: November 10, 1998
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Product Description
This is the first comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Igbo, the language of more than twenty million Nigerians. Prepared by a native speaker of Igbo, the dictionary focuses on words and phrases encountered in everyday life and in Igbo texts. The author includes words from all Igbo dialects and provides a convenient English index.
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 Not the Best but sufficient October 13, 2008
This isn't a comprehensive dictionary, the page count should tell you that. However, it is helpful to use as a reference point when reading emerging and established Igbo authors like Chinua Achebe, Chris Abani and C. Ngozi Adichie. Readers should bear in mind that Igbo is a language with many dialects. As an Igbo person, I'd recommend this book to others who were interested in the language. However, because of its limitations and odd decisions (why spell chi as ci?), I wouldn't pay more than $15 for it. Just keeping it real.
 What an .....ifele? May 3, 2004
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
Being 50% Ibo(that's how my relatives spelled it), I thought it might be nice to learn a bit of the language of a people that make up half my being so I bought this book for a sum signifigantly less than it is offered for on this site at a used book store. I got a bit concerned when I found a bunch of spelling contradictions with the root words for Igbo names as they appeared in a book that I have on that subject("Igbo Names" by Ebo Ubahakwe)as well as running at odds with the spellings of the names of my cousins,uncles and aunts(the name element Chukwu is spelled Cukwu). That's bad enough, but when I couldn't find one of the few words one of my cousins taught me (Gommen, I think, a general greeting)in the 'G 'section at all, I started to get upset. Now I learn that roughly 2/3 of the language isn't even represented, so any thoughs of trying to speak Igbo in Nigeria without looking like either an ignorant/stupid foreigner or a primitive are out of the question. There isn't even an in-depth pronounciation guide in here! Still, it's better than nothing and you don't have to worry about tone if you're using it to translate dialogue or something similar.It's too short for regular dictionary standards let alone translation dictionaries, being a scant 283-page total while the Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English dictionary I have is a whopping 733-pages and the Harrap's Concise French and English Dictionary has a whole 997 pages! A half-way decent start but they need to release an expanded volume or three to make amends for this one.
 A second step in a proverbaial 1000 miles journey October 5, 1999
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is a commendable work. Igbo dictionaries no longer exist in the air. Now there is one to read and critique! However,there is no justification whatsoever for the author's introduction of a new orthography for the language. Tone marking was grossly neglected. If this dictionary is to be used by non-native speakers it has to be revised with tones adequately marked, and the alphabet made to conform with existing Igbo orthography. The author may take refuge in the fact that standardization wise the language appears to be in a state of flux. But, a dictionary is the proper avenue towards a standard. In that regard the dictionary falls a little short of expectation. Most of the entries are correctly translated into English, attesting to the authors sound command of both Igbo and English.
off-base dictionary February 18, 1999
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Professor Echeruo knows too well that Igbo people live both in the eastern and mid-western parts of Nigeria. The map in the dictionary, while showing this fact, claimed that the Igbo live in eastern part of Nigeria. Also, Mike knows too well that the alphabet "c" does not exist in Igbo orthography. "Chi" is inseparable with the Igbo in philosophy and cosmology. Would Professor Echeruo wish that we begin to spell it "Ci"? I believe that the "dictionary" can be vastly improved with many omitted words and better production.
"ch" becomes "c", "k" becomes "c" dictionary February 8, 1999
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
The excitement of having a dictionary authored by one of our respected scholars everporates as soon as one sees the "dictionary" itself. Pink cover, few pages, over two thirds of Igbo words ignored. Tiny lettesets, and the whole bit. Why?
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