Ogba language

Ogba
Ọgbà
Region	Rivers, Delta and Imo States, Nigeria
Ethnicity	Ogba People Igbo people
Native speakers	334,000 (2020)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Volta–Niger yeai Igboid Nuclear Igboid Ogba
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ogc
Glottolog	ogba1241
ELP

Ogba (also Olu Ogba, mobu onu Ogbah) is an Igboid language spoken by Ogba people of Nigeria mostly in River State. They are part of the Ogba/ Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area in Rivers State. The king is referred to as the Eze-ogba and was politically influenced to change the title as 'Oba' just as the Benin's refer to theirs. Annually they celebrate the 'Egwu ogba' festival. The largest festival in the Egi land.

Writing system

Ogba alphabet

Uppercase
A	B	Ch	D	E	Ẹ	F	G	H	I	Ị	J	K	L	M	N	O	Ọ	P	R	S	T	U	Ụ	V	W	Y	Z
Lowercase
a	b	ch	d	e	ẹ	f	g	h	i	ị	j	k	l	m	n	o	ọ	p	r	s	t	u	ụ	v	w	y	z

Certain digraphs and trigraphs are also used.

The tones are indicated with diacritics:

• the high tone is indicated by the absence of a diacritic:⟨a, e, ẹ, i, ị, o, ọ, u, ụ⟩ ;
• the low tone is indicated with the grave accent : ⟨à, è, ẹ̀, ì, ị̀, ò, ọ̀, ù, ụ̀⟩ ;
• the falling tone is indicated with the circumflex accent : ⟨â, ê, ệ, î, ị̂, ô, ộ, û, ụ̂⟩ ;
• the downstep is indicated with the macron : ⟨ā, ē, ẹ̄, ī, ị̄, ō, ọ̄, ū, ụ̄⟩.

Phonology

Ogbah vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i ɪ	ʊ u
Close-mid	e	o
Open-mid		ɔ
Open	a