Igbo Pelican

Here, we study the SVO pattern of sentence construction in Igbo with examples.

This topic deals with simple sentence construction with examples. More lessons will focus on the features of a simple sentence and other sentence types.

This episode is all about praises and how Igbo people show appreciation.

Igbo people also express happiness too. And so , this episode focuses on that.

This episode studies expressives in Igbo that have to do with anger.

A focus on Igbo comedians is made here.

A list of some Nigerian Igbo actors is presented here.

This episode lists Nigerian-Igbo musicians.

This episode goes further to explore compounding in Igbo.

This episode sheds more light with illustrations on compounds in Igbo.

This episode discusses how two words form a word through compounding.

This episode studies polar questions in Igbo.

This episode extends to study interrogatives with a focus on their application to sentences.

This episode studies Interrogatives in Igbo (Wh questions)

This last episode summarises and gives more examples on inherent gender marked lexical items in Igbo.

Here, we look at more examples on gender system in Igbo.

This episode focuses on the gender classification that’s marked lexically in the language and not grammatically.

This episode explores comparative and superlatives constructions involved in verbs of quality in Igbo.

This episode looks at different sentence examples on verbs of quality in Igbo.

This is an introduction to verbs of quality in Igbo as introduced by Nwachukwu (1984). It discusses and mention some of the examples in Igbo.

This is the third episode on posture verbs and it pays attention to inanimate entities and posture verbs in sentence structures.

Here, we look at the sentence examples of posture verbs.

This is an introduction to posture verbs in Igbo.

This episode extends the discussion on the preposition types in Igbo with insights from the works of Professor Mmadike of Nnamdi Azikiwe University.

An introduction to Igbo prepositions.

This episode is a continuation of body parts idioms in Igbo. It discusses other idioms with sentence examples.

This episode discusses idioms on body parts and how they are used in different contexts and discourses.

A discussion on Igbo names.

This episode is dedicated to ancient Igbo names.

This is the last episode on the subject matter aforementioned.

This is a continued episode on animal based metaphors in Igbo.

This episode focuses on metaphors with a particular attention to animals. It’s a case of meaning extension. This episode is based on the works of Orji, O.C, Onwukwe, C., Onukawa, E.N (2023) on Animal-based metaphors in Igbo.

This episode attempts constructing sentences with animals previously discussed in the episodes.

This episode goes further to elicit more animals in Igbo as a continuation.

This is a continuation.

Here, we focus on learning Igbo equivalents of some animals.

Here, we focus on more conversations on how people talk about likes and dislikes.

This episode studies the language of likes and dislikes in Igbo with particular reference to question tag formation. More episodes would be built upon this.

This episode is dedicated to the techniques in asking questions in Igbo.

This is a mother-child conversation at home on shopping.

This episode is an interactive based one. It gives an illustration of a buyer trying to shop!

The focus here is on developing questions and affirmations during shopping.

The focus here is on verbs while exploring the present and past tense forms.

This is the first episode on shopping in Igbo.