Ogbah Language
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Ogba (also Olu Ogba, mobu onu Ogbah) is an
Igboid Igboid languages constitute a branch of the Volta–Niger language family. The subgroups are: *Ekpeye * Nuclear Igboid: Igbo, Ikwerre, Ika, Ngwa, Izii–Ikwo– Ezza– Mgbo, Ogba and Ukwuani-Aboh-Ndoni Williamson and Blench conclude th ...
language spoken by
Ogba people The Ogba people are one of the ethnic An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common se ...
of
Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...
.


Writing system

Certain digraphs and trigraphs are also used. The tones are indicated with diacritics: * the high tone is indicated by the absence of a diacritic: ; * the low tone is indicated with the grave accent :  ; * the falling tone is indicated with the circumflex accent :  ; * the
downstep Downstep is a phenomenon in tone languages in which if two syllables have the same tone (for example, both with a high tone or both with a low tone), the second syllable is lower in pitch than the first. Two main kinds of downstep can be distin ...
is indicated with the macron : .


References

Igboid languages Indigenous languages of Rivers State {{VoltaNiger-lang-stub