Credits
Built on one man’s word book, and many voices.
Kịrịkẹnị stands on the work of Levi Sika and the people who helped him, the scholars who kept his typescript alive, and every speaker who has added to it since.
The source
The Okrika Word Book, 1995–2005.
Compiler
Levi Sika
Author of the Okrika Word Book (Kịrịkẹnị Ọkụẹịngbọlụ Diri), completed in June 1995. Every headword in the core of this dictionary is his.
Editor, 2005 edition
Roger Blench
Prepared and circulated the manuscript in May 2005, correcting the English, adding scientific names, synonyms, cross-references and etymologies, and drawing on his own notes on Kịrịkẹ musical instruments.
Editorial consultant and custodian
Kay Williamson
Advised Sika as an editorial consultant. The typescript survived among the papers she left, and her Comparative Ijoid transcriptions were used in editing it.
Fish names
Richard Freeman
His notes on Kịrịkẹ fish names were used by Blench in the 2005 edition.
Acknowledged by Levi Sika
The people and books behind the original.
As listed in the compiler’s preface.
Editorial consultants
- Professor Kay Williamson
- Professor E. J. Alagoa
- Dr Charles E. W. Jenewari
Phonology
- Mr George J. Orupabo
Personalities consulted
- Mr M. D. Selema (late)
- Mrs Margaret Ine Sika (late)
- Chief A. A. Jamabo
- Chief I. K. Gbobo
- Chief (Dr) A. S. Abam
- Mr S. L. Owubokiri (late)
- Rev. Canon Vincent B. D. Aminadoki (late)
- Ven. Arch. B. A. Obuoribo
- Mr B. D. Iwo (late)
- Rev. S. A. Oforibo (late)
- Mr I. D. Gogo
- Members of the Okrika Bible Translation Project
Written sources Sika used
- Gospels and other Biblical books by Ven. Archs. H. E. Oriaku and B. A. Obuoforibo
- Gospels, Biblical books and scripts by the Committee of Translators
- Teke Na Nime Na, by accredited translators
- Okrika Primer, by W. W. Peters
- Kabo Na Gbun Ekwein Na, by Dinah Kalio
- Tatari Go Diri, by Levi Sika
Since 2026
What has been added.
- Okrika Language Lesson Series 5 and 6
- Numerals 11–25 and the counting of persons. Sika’s spellings and tones are used wherever he has the word.
- learnokrika.com and okrikadictionary.com
- Learner-compiled lists of greetings, question words, time expressions and pronouns. Only words missing from Sika were taken, reviewed by the founder and marked with their source.
- Community contributors
- Everyone whose word, correction, phrase or cultural note is approved is credited in the contributions feed.
Donors
The people who fund it.
- Bxma2
Listed in the order they first gave, by their own choice. Join them.
The project
- Boma Nathaniel Williams
- Founder
- Greencrest Integrated Services Ltd
- Design, development and operation · Abuja, Nigeria
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