Uyo Ibibio Dictionary - Computational Linguistics and Spoken ...

Contents
Uyo–Bielefeld Ibibio Dictionary (Urua, Ekpenyong, Gibbon)
1 Acknowledgment 3
2 Structure and rendering of entries 3
3 Lexicographic procedure 5
4 Format markup code 6
5 Alphabetic Dictionary 9
1 Acknowledgment
We gratefully acknowledge the debt we owe to
• Elaine Kaufman, for her pioneering dictionary of Ibibio, on whose contents this new
dictionary is largely based,
• Okon Essien, for his groundbreaking work in the linguistic description of Ibibio, and
in particular for designing the standard orthography for Ibibio,
• the University of Uyo, for its support in the Language Documentation Curriculum
Project,
• Universität Bielefeld, for its support in the Language Documentation Curriculum
Project,
• The DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, German Academic Exchange
Service) for generously funding travel scholarships within the framework
of the Language Documentation Curriculum Project,
• our colleagues and students in Uyo and Bielefeld for generously giving of their time
in supporting the Language Documentation Curriculum Project.
2 Structure and rendering of entries
A representative entry is:
abakan - /abaka�/ [abakaN] HHL n: a kind of tree which often grows very
large in the bush, its succulent leaves are used for goat fodder, African nutmeg
(Adams), wild nutmeg (Dalziel), Pycnanthus kombo (Dalziel).
The field category types are defined as follows:
Orthography: string of Essien standard Ibibio orthography characters.
IPA: string of characters in a conventional IPA font.
SAMPA: string of typewriter–friendly Ibibio SAMPA ASCII characters.
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