Learn Izon (Ijaw)

Step inside an Izon home — bedroom, kitchen, parlor, and bathroom — through family life, daily routines, cooking, and household conversation.

11 lessons

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

6 lessons

Learn the traditional Izon vigesimal counting system, market numerals, money vocabulary, and the akpa unit used in trade.

8 lessons

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

25 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 the colour vocabulary of Izon — basic and compound colour terms — through everyday objects and the natural environment.

3 lessons

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

3 lessons

Step into Izon public life — greet neighbours, haggle at the market, eat out, and talk about the weather and the outdoors.

6 lessons

Talk about jobs and occupations, navigate transport and directions, and manage a clinic visit — the language of work and everyday mobility in Izon.

4 lessons

Engage with news, technology, dining out, and civic debate in contemporary Izon — advanced register, minimal support.

5 lessons