Ntulekorita 'Na' n'Igbo Izugbe na Oluasusu Nekede

Abstract

‘Na’ is one of the important topics in standard Igbo. There are accepted rules of writing ‘na’ in standard Igbo which include ‘na’ as: preposition, auxiliary verb, conjunction and verbroot. The researcher’s observation that Nekede variety can do without ‘na’ in some of the rules and still have meaningful sentences motivated the study. The study adopted contrastive analysis of Lado (1957) as its theoretical framework for analysis. It was found that there are both similarities and differences between the use of ‘na’ in Nekede variety and standard Igbo. The contrastive theory of lado helps to conclude that the knowledge of both the difference of the uses of ‘na’ in Nekede variety and standard Igbo will felicitate teaching and learning of ‘na’ for Nekede variety and also other varieties of the Igbo language . The study will help other researchers to delve into the study of ‘na’ in other dialects.