Learn Izon (Ijaw)

Say hello, give your name, name what's in front of you, and count — every line taught by the tutor.

34 lessons

The market, the kitchen, the river, the day itself — everyday scenes from the tutor's notes.

48 lessons

The patterns behind the sentences: describing, comparing, asking, refusing, joining.

45 lessons

Foundation vocabulary and everyday phrases from the published lesson guide, sorted by theme, plus the linguists' introduction.

21 lessons

Phrases and words recorded first-hand by a native speaker, week by week.

7 lessons

Listen to traditional Izon folktales, praise poetry, and proverbs rooted in the rivers, forests, and spiritual memory of the Niger Delta.

8 lessons

Learn Izon through traditional and community songs — lullabies, praise songs, and festival music with sing-along lyrics.

3 lessons

Build the grammatical backbone of Izon — possessives, question words, verb morphology, adjectives, adverbs, ideophones, compounding, and more.

18 lessons

Master the phoneme inventory of Izon — vowel harmony, tonal contrasts, consonant digraphs, and the orthographic conventions used in written Izon.

6 lessons

Welcomed as a guest — greetings, names, hospitality.

39 lessons

You settle into the compound — family, home, food, daily rhythm.

12 lessons

Childhood around you — the river, the market, first proverbs.

12 lessons

Livelihood across the seasons — fishing, farming, the market.

3 lessons

Courtship and marriage — two families join.

1 lesson

Community life — festivals, governance, the modern world.

4 lessons

You can speak now — oratory, proverbs, praise poetry.

2 lessons

You pass it on — ancestry, cosmology, libation, tradition.

0 lessons