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=Igbo Language =

Igbo Life
a. Know how to read
 * ====If you are an Igbo it is important to: ====

c. Know how to speak
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 * ====This is all important because launguage is their most important heritage because it is how their culture survives and continues to exist in our world. ====
 * ====The Igbo language is one of the major languages in Africa ====
 * ====Mostly spoken in Biafra (former Eastern Nigeria) and other parts of the world ====
 * [[image:http://i.infoplease.com/images/mnigeria.gif width="394" height="245" caption="Map of Nigeria"]]
 * There are 3 main languages in Nigeria
 * But in the country, there are over 300 dialects that intertwine between these 3 languages and across them as well

Dead Language?
 * The Igbo language is both a product of speech and a collection of necessary things in order to run their society effectively
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">People think that the Igbo language cannot be dead today because it is still used in the entertainment industry today
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">According to Cosmos Eze, a lecturer at the Ahmadu Bello University, possible ways of an extinction of a language can happen by:

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">a. Assimilation <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">b. Everyone in a community being bi-lingual and adapting to the other language <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">c. Or when the language geography is small and all the native speakers are wiped out by

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Sources Sited

Igwe, By Chidi. "YouTube - Igbo Lesson: Igbo Alphabet and Parts of the Body." //YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.// Web. 05 Nov. 2010.

Eze, Jonathan. "Igbo Language and the Extinction Theory." //Nigerian Compass//. Mar.-Apr. 2010. Web. Sept.-Oct. 2010.

//Motherland Nigeria//. Motherland In Nigeria, 1998-2007. Web. 5 Oct. 2010. <http://www.motherlandnigeria.com/languages.html>.

"Nigeria." //Infoplease//. HighBeam Research, 2005. Web. 5 Oct. 2010. <http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107847.html>.

Nwazue, Onyema. "Introduction to the Igbo Language." //IgboNet//. ACE Network. Web. 5 Oct. 2010. [].