How deceitful would the dialect of an ethnic group be written in English alphabets.

David Michael Chidiebere
@michaelchidieberedavid863694
1 month ago

For a long time now I've been dabbling in thoughts, because it doesn't settle well with my cognizance how our native dialects are written in English alphabets
Yes, In the ancient Eastern region before the colonial rule, my forefathers did not write neither did they leave behind scrolls adopted from any race but they passed to us the DIALECT. How alarming it is in the early days of colonialism, the Igbo dialect to be specific began to be written in English alphabets?
Gracefully, Chinua Achebe in his book titled "THERE WAS A COUNTRY a personal history of Biafra" He wrote unarguably that the European missionaries came and learned our tradition and dialect. Then they gave us Christianity and education(reading & writing), rapidly the European education spread like wildfire mainly because the pupils adopt faster compared to any other region in Nigeria and most of these students became school teachers popularly known as "Onye Nkusi" in the newly setup learning centers. These brilliant students emerged mostly from the umuahia school. The urge grew intensely that the European missionaries began to write Igbo language with English alphabets, without debating the igbo intellects of then also adopted this. In fact it is a fantastic story. In a nutshell, the European missionaries taught most ethnic groups how to write their dialect with English alphabets which I propose to be a wrong deal but yet the book satisfied my hunger to know how we came about writing our dialect in English alphabets. Then I leave you with this, would your dialect be more unique in writing if it had its special form of letters like the Hebrew and the Arabic?

Thank you Sir Chinua Achebe
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