Standard literary language termed 'Igbo izugbe' was generically developed and later adopted around 1972, with its core foundation based on the Owerri, Anambra and Umuahia dialects, omitting the nasalization and aspiration of those varieties.
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Lexical categories in Igbo language include nouns, pronouns, numerals, verbs, adjectives, conjunctions, and a single preposition.
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Igbo language has an extremely limited number of adjectives in a closed class.
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Igbo language pronouns do not index gender, and the same pronouns are used for male, female and inanimate beings.
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In many cases, the two tones commonly used in Igbo dictionaries fail to represent how words actually sound in the spoken language.
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The Enu-Onitsha Igbo language dialect is very much similar to Enuani spoken among the Igbo language-Anioma people in Delta State.
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The Igbo language is predominantly suffixing in a hierarchical manner, such that the ordering of suffixes is governed semantically rather than by fixed position classes.
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The Igbo language has very little inflectional morphology but much derivational and extensional morphology.
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Extensional suffixes, a term used in the Igbo language literature, refer to morphology that has some but not all characteristics of derivation.
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Igbo language possess an applicative construction, which takes the suffix -rV, where V copies the previous vowel, and the applicative argument follows the verb directly.
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Igbo language people have long used Nsibidi ideograms, invented by the neighboring Ekoi people, for basic written communication.
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Standardized Igbo language is composed of fragmented features from numerous Igbo dialects and is not technically a spoken language, but it is used in communicational, educational, and academic contexts.
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Proverbs are an essential component of the Igbo language that convey cultural wisdom and contextual significance to linguistic expression.
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Everyday usage of Igbo language proverbs has declined in recent generations of speakers, which threatens loss in intergenerational transmission.
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