Learn Izon (Ijaw)

Welcomed as a guest — greetings, names, hospitality.

8 lessons

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

15 lessons

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

13 lessons

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

7 lessons

Courtship and marriage — two families join.

2 lessons

Community life — festivals, governance, the modern world.

10 lessons

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

2 lessons

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

4 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

The full Izon core vocabulary, A–Z, drawn from the Kolokuma dictionary and lesson corpus — thousands of words and their meanings.

343 lessons