Ijaw
Izon, the language of the creeks.
Ijaw is spoken across the creeks of Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers, and every clan says it a little differently. Creeks teaches it clan by clan. Your dialect is a label on the lesson, never a wall in front of it.
Dialects
- GbaramatuWarri, in the app
- Ogbe IjohWarri, in the app
- IsabaWarri, in the app
- KolokumaThe written base
- MeinBeing recorded
- NembeOn the way
- KalabariOn the way
- IbaniOn the way
First words in Kolokuma
- nụ́à
- Welcome. Also thank you.
- bení
- Water.
- árụ
- Canoe, boat.
- amarán
- Paddle.
- dáda
- Father. Daddy, papa.
The voices for these words land here after the recording round.
Spellings and tones from the Kolokuma Izon dictionary by Kay Williamson and Roger Blench.