- Collection:
- Africana Digital Ethnography Project (ADEPt)
- Title:
- Nwanyi n'akw'akwa: Igbo Tongue Twister
- Creator:
- Carter-Enyi, Aaron
Carter-Enyi, Quintina - Date of Original:
- 2017-03-01
- Subject:
- Igbo (African people)
Igbo language - Location:
- Nigeria, Enugu, 6.5536094, 7.4143061
- Medium:
- web pages (documents)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- This Igbo language tongue twister plays on the different meaning of the tone-varied homophone [akwa], which can mean cloth, cry, egg or bed, depending on the pitch trajectory. Keywords: Vocal Arts; Poetry; Rhyming; Pitch Polarity; Tonal Counterpoint.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/adept.ibo:0004
- Language:
- ibo
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection are protected by copyright. For more information or to request a use not granted under the Copyright Educational Use Statement from rightsstatements.org, please contact Aaron Carter-Enyi (aaron.carterenyi@morehouse.edu) with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Original Collection:
- Africana Digital Ethnography Project: Igbo Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Rights:
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