How to count days in Nsukka language by Ekene Ugwuanyi

Instructions to Count Days in Nsukka Dialect Up To One Months 

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It is very lamentable that the Igbo mathematical frameworks which range through days to weeks to months and even up to years have been deserted by the new generational Igbos prompting its slow demise. This is detached to the methodology received by the early evangelists who viewed the dark mainland as a region that knew not God and described everything indigeneous to Africa as malicious. This was the outlook used to instill the early Christians of Igbo starting point that prompted the relinquishment of nearly everything indigeneous to us as a race for the Western. 

Prior to the happening to the white man, the Igbos had their own particular manners of tallying days that range up to years. It is pitiful that practically all the youngsters and ladies of the Igbo race can't tally as long as 6 days dependent on the Igbo days checking framework. The Igbo race is isolated into sub-social zones and each zone has explicit techniques whereby it tally days and numbers. 

This article centers around Nsukka sub-social zone which include the present Enugu North Senatorial Zone and a few pieces of Isi-Ụzọ Local Government Area like Ikem. In Nsukka, before the happening to the white man, the locals could disclose to you when someone or other occasion happened dependent on their local days checking framework. In this article I present to you the Nsukka indigeneous days tallying framework that ranges as long as one month. One intriguing thing about this checking framework is that it has no impediment. Ọbụkpa is taken here as the purpose of contact. The following is the way to include number of days in Nsukka lingo for up to one entire month: 

0. Nta – Today 

Echile – Tomorrow 

Nwane-echi – Next tomorrow 

Anọrụnya – 3 days time 

Izukwete – 4 days time (ofu izu, one local week) 

Echile-aás'- izukwete – 5 days time 

Nwane-echi-aás'- izukwete – 6 days time 

Ẹbọ́-ụnya – 7 days time 

Ẹbọ́ọ́tà – 8 days time (izu ẹbọ, two local weeks) 

Echile-aás'- ẹ̀bọ̀ – 9 days time 

Nwane-echi-aás'- ẹ̀bọ̀ – 10 days time 

Ẹ̀tọ́-Ụ̀nyáà – 11 days time. 

Ẹtọ́-tà – 12 days time (izu ẹtọ, three local weeks). 

Echile-aás'- ẹtọ́ – 13 days time. 

Nwane-echi-aás'- ẹtọ́ – 14 days time 

Ẹ̀nọ́-Ụnyáà – 15 days time. 

Ẹnọ́-tà – 16 days time (izu ẹnọ, four local weeks). 

Echile-aás'- ẹnọ́ – 17 days time. 

Nwane-echi-aás'- ẹnọ́ – 18 days time. 

Ise-Ụ̀nyáà – 19 days time. 

Ise-tà – 20 days time (izu ise, five local weeks). 

Echile-aás'- ìsé – 21 days time. 

Nwane-echi-aás'- ìsé – 22 days time. 

Ìshíì-Ụnyáà – 23 days time. 

Ìshíì-tà – 24 days time (izu ishii, six local weeks). 

Echile-aás'- ishíì – 25 days time. 

Nwane-echi-áás'- ishíì – 26 days time. 

Ẹsáà-Ụnyáà – 27 days time. 

Ẹ̀ẹ̀sáà-tà – 28 days time. (izu ẹsa, [oh'ọnwa], seven local weeks which make up one local month). 

Echile-áás'- ẹsáà – 29 days time. 

Nwane-echi-áás'- ẹsáà – 30 days time. 

Ẹ satọ́-Ụnyáà – 31 days time [Gregorian one month] 

The checking proceeds with a similar cycle. There are guides required toward be noted as respects this Nsukka local days tallying framework. 

Right off the bat, Izukwete makes one complete local week for Nsukka. Nsukka weeks runs as per the four Igbo market days – Eke, Orie, Ahọ and Nkwọ. Four days makes multi week and seven weeks makes one month and accordingly, one entire month in Nsukka is 28 days. 

Ẹbọ-ta denotes the fulfillment of the subsequent week and is a time of 8 days. 

Ẹtọ-ta denotes the fulfillment of the third week and is a time of 12 days. 

Ẹnọ-ta denotes the fulfillment of the fourth week and is a time of 16 days. 

Ise-ta denotes the fulfillment of the fifth week and is a time of 20 days. 

Ishii-ta denotes the fulfillment of the 6th week and is a time of 24 days. 

Ẹ̀ẹ̀sáà-tà makes one local month as indicated by the Igbo schedule and is a time of 28 days; subsequently, Ẹ̀ẹ̀sáà-tà is called ofu ọnwa or oh'ọnwa relying upon the tongue of elocution. All other sub-social zones in Igboland have their total days tallying framework. Would it be advisable for us to permit this our social legacy to cease to exist essentially on the grounds that the white man colonized us? That would be a reprehensible sin against our progenitors. We can expand on this and create it. In case you're a Nsukka parent, instruct this to your kids. There is the chance of slight variety among the segment networks of Igbo Nsukka.