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Notes on the language, from the editors.
Where the words come from, how they are spelled, and what they tell us about Okrika life.
The source · 7 October 2026
Where Kịrịkẹnị’s words come from
A typescript finished in 1995, rescued from a linguist’s papers in 2005, and rebuilt letter by letter in 2026. The story of the Okrika Word Book.
Spelling · 5 October 2026
Reading Kịrịkẹ: dots, tones and the level sign
Why só, sò and sọ́ are three different words, what the dot under a letter does, and why you can search without typing any of it.
Read · 4 minVocabulary · 3 October 2026
Words from the water: Okrika fishing vocabulary
Night nets, lamp-light on sleeping mullet and mudskippers chased into their holes. A short tour of the fishing words in Sika’s dictionary.
Read · 4 min