Talk:92340-15

Gini / Ke
I'm not an Igbo speaker, but I was under the impression that the Igbo word for the English word 'what' is 'gini'. I don't know what 'ke' means, but maybe it's another word for 'what'?

-- Crashdburnd (talk • blog) 17:44, November 17, 2011 (UTC)


 * Got this answer from Gin:
 * "I forgot to tell you that the 'what' in this instance (for Igbo) isn't correct. There are two different kinds of 'what' in Igbo which are 'ke' and 'gini', this character (you used for 'gini') represents 'ke', and is a phono-semantic compound because 'ke' (in a different tone) also means to tie in Igbo, which is why the nsibidi shows someone tied to a tree. Examples of the uses are '*Ke* ebe i ne eje?', where are you going, and 'Ke kwanu?' how far. Of course, mbe could use this character still for 'nyuno'."
 * So the next question is does 'gini' have a different character?
 * -- Crashdburnd (talk • blog) 17:58, November 17, 2011 (UTC)