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Language And Culture As A Tool Of Identifying Peoples Tribe/ethnic Group In Nigeria
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Apart from subsistence farming the people of Anaan engage themselves in
commercial farming a situation where they sell their farm products are
sole out to neighboring town in the state. The Anaan people are
reportedly blessed with numbers of privately own garri processing
industries, likewise palm oil processing industries raffia as well as
kola nut are also found among them.
Livestock farming and fishing are
not left out in their enterprise quite a large number of household near
pigs. Goats and dogs. The Anaan are further reported in craftsmanship,
carving and other artistic vocation. The major local government areas
that constitutes the Anaan tribe includes Ikot EKpene, Abak, Ukanafu,,
Etim Ekpo Ekpe Atia, Ikono etc. Anaan has eight market days in a month.
These are Editaha, Etim, Ofionetuk, or Ekpenyong, Edere Obo, Urua Obom,
Urua Ekpe and Edet, these names were given by the Anaan ancestor and
their names were derived from different semi god or commonly knows as “D
Ndem’ these days are special to the Anaan. Identifying Peoples
The
term Anaan refers to both the people and their language. Therefore like
most tribes in Akwa Ibom State which are named after their languages
Anaan is the language spoken by the Anaan people. The language is a
variety of the lower Cross language. Identifying Peoples
According to
GreenBerge (1963) classification, the language grouped in the
Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo languages family. Williamson
(1982) on the other hand with single alternation classified Anaan under
the lower cross of the Benue-Congo sub group of the Niger-Congo. The
language has great similar feature of Ibibio and Efik language
structure, though in some cased the structure of Anaan language could be
difficult compared with the Efik and Ibibio language due to
pronunciation and narration. However, Anaan is a dialect of Ibibio
according to Udo (1983)â€The Anaan are Ibibio people speaking a dialect
of Ibibio Udo (1983:49) the dialect was spoken by their ancestors many
thousand years ago along the cross River the language like most other
indigenous languages has been influenced by Eastern educational system
but Verbal Arts are still verb much inherent. Identifying Peoples
1.3. Statement of the Problem
The
Main aim of this work is to reconstruct the proto forms in Ibibio, Efik
and Anaan language. The intention is not unconnected with the fact that
there has no work on this work in relation to Anaan. The problems of
the so-called minority language such as Anaan are multi-dimensional
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