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Learn Igbo: Numbers, Greetings & Conversation

Family and belonging

Words for mother, father, siblings, grandparents and the wider family.

Lesson 1 of 2

My family words

Close family

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Match the family words

Tap two cards that belong together.

nne = mother
nna = father
nwa = child
ada = first daughter

Lesson 2 of 2

Circles of family

The compound and the house

The immediate family is ezi na ụlọ, literally “the compound and the house”. Beyond it lie wider circles: ụmụ nna (the umunna), ikwu (kindred or lineage) and ogbo (an age group).

“Nwanyị bụ nwa.”
— Proverbial phrase

“A female child is also a child.”

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