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31 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Some Igbo words with the same morphological shapes but different in pronunciations and meanings.

Igbo is a tonal language. With tones, you can ascertain different meanings of words although they have the same shape.

Ígwé= sky
Ígwé= King
Ìgwè= crowd
Ígwé= grind
Ígwè= metal
Ákwà= clothes
Àkwà=Bed
Àkwá=Egg
Ákwá=Cry

Èké - Market day
Éké- Python
Ékè- To share
Èké - To tie
Éké= Create

Ísí - Head
Ísì - Cook
Ísī- Smell
Ìsì- Blindness
Ị́sị́ - To say

Ègó = buy
Égō = money

íké =power/strength
íkè= to tie
íkē = buttocks
àkpà= bag
àkpá= discuss (àkpá nkata= having discussion)

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* Ékē= Create

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