Ibibio (language)
| Ibibio (also Ibibi) | ||
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Spoken in |
Nigeria | |
| speaker | 5,000,000 | |
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| Official status | ||
| Recognized minority / regional language in |
 Nigeria
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
nic |
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| ISO 639-3 |
ibb |
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Ibibio is the language of the Ibibio people in southeastern Nigeria . It is one of those Nigerian languages that have been promoted as minority languages by the government's own radio and television stations since the 1970s.
It is a cross-river language within the Benue-Congo languages , a branch of the Niger-Congo languages . Ibibio has about five million speakers and is divided into about a dozen dialects : Ibiono, Uruan, Uyo, Iman, Ikot Abasi / Mkpat Enin and Ikono (after Urua 2004) and Enyong, Central Ibibio, Itak and Nsit (after Gordon 2005) .
Speech technology
So far, there are only a few studies on the speech synthesis of African sound languages. With the Ibibio synthesis, Gibbon et al. (2006) and Bachmann (2006, 2007).
literature
- Essays
- Mark Baker: Agreement in Ibibio. From every head to every head . In: Syntax. A journal of theoretical, experimental and dinterdisciplinary research , Vol. 13 (2010), Issue 2, pp. 99-132, ISSN 1368-0005 .
- Okon E. Essien: The nature of tenses in African languages. A case study of the morphemes and their variants . In: Archive Orientálni. Quarterly Journal of African, Asian and Latin American Studies , Vol. 59 (1991), pp. 1-11, ISSN 0570-6815 .
- Dafydd Gibbon, Eno-Abasi E. Urua and Moses Ekpenyong: Problems and solutions in African tone language Text-To-Speech . In: Justus Roux (Ed.): ISCA Workshop on Multilingual Speech and Language Processing (MULTILING 2006) (Stellenbosch University paper 014.2006). Center for Language and Speech Technology, Stellenbosch, SA 2006.
- Eno-Abasi E. Urua: Ibibio . In: International Phonetic Association (Ed.): Journal of the international phonetic association , Vol. 34 (2004) Issue 1, pp. 105-109, ISSN 0025-1003 .
- Willie U. Willie, Mfon E. Udoinyang: The Missing Component in Ibibio Linguistic Time. Selected Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, ed. Michael R. Marlo et al., 240-256. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. (2012)
- Monographs
- Arne Bachmann: A quantitative clay model for Ibibio. Development of a prediction module for the BOSS speech synthesis system . Master's thesis, University of Bonn 2006.
- Arne Bachmann: BOSS-IBB. Speech Synthesis Module Documentation for the BOSS Ibibio module . 2007.
- Okon E. Essien: A grammar of the Ibibio language . University Press, Ibadan 1990, ISBN 978-249153-5 .
- Raymond G. Gordon (Ed.): Ethnologue. Languages of the World . 15th edition. SIL International, Dallas, Tx 2005, ISBN 1-55671-159-X .
- Elaine Marlowe Kaufman: Ibibio dictionary . New edition African Studies Center, Leiden ASC 1985, ISBN 90-70110-46-6 (EA Leiden 1972).
Web links
- Ethnologue.com
- Master's thesis Bachmann (PDF file; 903 kB)
- Paper on this (PDF file; 147 kB)
- Presentation on this (PDF file; 1.61 MB)
- BOSS-IBB Documentation (PDF file; 252 kB)
See also
Individual evidence
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