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Title

Nwanyi n'akw'akwa: Igbo Tongue Twister

Date

2017-03-01

Decade

2010-2019

Abstract

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.

Subject

Igbo (African people)
Igbo language

Document Type

moving image

Format

video/mp4

Medium

born digital

Collection

Africana Digital Ethnography Project: Igbo Collection

Institution

Morehouse College

Geographic Location

Nigeria--Enugu

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/adept.ibo:0004

Rights

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