Igboid
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Igboid is a branch of the Niger-Congo language family comprising closely related languages spoken primarily by the Igbo people and neighboring groups in southeastern Nigeria.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Igboid canonical | 4 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
language branch
ⓘ
language subgroup ⓘ |
| associatedWithEthnicGroup | Igbo people ⓘ |
| branchOf |
Benue–Congo languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Benue-Congo languages
|
| classificationStatus | well-established within Niger-Congo ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Cross-River languages
ⓘ
Yoruboid languages ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| glottologCode | igbo1241 ⓘ |
| hasDialectsWithinMajorLanguage |
Central Igbo dialects
ⓘ
Eastern Igbo dialects ⓘ Northern Igbo dialects ⓘ Western Igbo dialects ⓘ |
| hasEthnologueEntryForMajorLanguage | Igbo ⓘ |
| hasISO639LanguageCodeForMajorLanguage | ig ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
complex tone system
ⓘ
noun class remnants ⓘ serial verb constructions ⓘ vowel harmony in some varieties ⓘ |
| hasMemberLanguage |
Edoid languages
ⓘ
Ezza language ⓘ Igbo ⓘ
surface form:
Igbo language
Ika language ⓘ
surface form:
Ika language (Igboid)
Ikwerre language ⓘ Ikwerre-Igboid varieties ⓘ Ngwa dialect cluster ⓘ Igbo ⓘ
surface form:
Nsukka Igbo
Onitsha ⓘ
surface form:
Onitsha Igbo
Owerri ⓘ
surface form:
Owerri Igbo
|
| hasProtoLanguage | Proto-Igboid ⓘ |
| hasStandardizationEffortsForMajorLanguage |
orthography development for Igbo
ⓘ
terminology development for education in Igbo ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology |
SVO word order
ⓘ
tone language ⓘ |
| majorStandardLanguage |
Igbo
ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Igbo
|
| partOf |
Niger–Congo languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Niger-Congo language family
|
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Igbo people
ONNED1
ⓘ
neighboring ethnic groups in southeastern Nigeria ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Nigeria ⓘ |
| spokenPrimarilyIn | southeastern Nigeria ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Atlantic–Congo languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Volta-Congo languages
|
| usedFor |
cultural expression of Igbo people
ⓘ
everyday communication in southeastern Nigeria ⓘ local trade in southeastern Nigeria ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Christian religious services in southeastern Nigeria
ⓘ
traditional Igbo religion practices ⓘ |
| writingSystemUsedByMajorLanguage | Latin script ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Igboid Description of subject: Igboid is a branch of the Niger-Congo language family comprising closely related languages spoken primarily by the Igbo people and neighboring groups in southeastern Nigeria.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.