Basic Igbo Language Foundation Class

Borrowed words(okwu mbite)

Borrowed words or loanwords are words adopted by the speaker of one language from a different language. A loanwords can also be words, at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language, through the process of borrowing.
This can happen due to civilization, innovation, technology etc. No language can stand in isolation without borrowing words. It helps a language to be updated with the present development. Borrowing is a tool of enriching one's language.
Words borrowed can be given another name base on their color, shape, sounds the make, their functions or written the same way they where borrowed.
In igbo language, we can 'Igbonize' a word by writing/spelling it the way the word is being pronounced.
eg: Ball - Bọlụ
Table - Tebụlụ
Pump - pọmpụ
Gas - gasị
Wire- waya etc.
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Eburu pụta ụwa nyịrị Dibịa ọgwụgwọ.
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Onye nwere ndidi n'eri azụ ọkpọọ.
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Ihe m efule, onye àmà agbaralam.
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