Igbo language
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Igbo is the principal native language cluster of the Igbo people, an ethnicity in the Southeastern part of Nigeria.
An ikpe 'court case' recorded in nsibidi by J. K. Macgregor in the early 20th century
Igbo-language advertisement in Abia State. Note the use of the letter ụ.
Igbo version of the Book of Mormon, with the letters Ị, Ọ and Ụ visible
The Magnificat in Igbo translation (Church of the Visitation, Jerusalem)
Nsibidi
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Nsibidi is a system of symbols or proto-writing developed by the Ekpe secret society that traversed the southeastern part of Nigeria.
They are classified as pictograms, though there have been suggestions that some are logograms or syllabograms.
The name of a boy called 'Onuaha' as recorded by J. K. Macgregor in 1909. Macgregor interpreted the first two symbols as corruptions of the Latin letters 'N' and 'A' and the last symbol a generic nsibidi. Macgregor noted the growing European influence on nsibidi.
Contemporary Igbo art: carved mahogany doors covered in nsibidi symbolism and Christian iconography in Aba, Nigeria
Nsibidi on the Igbo 'Ukara' cloth of the Ekpe society