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There are 36 alphabets in the Igbo language. They are generally divided into three categories: consonants, vowels, and semivowels. The Igbo alphabets we use, today are made up of our normal English alphabets coupled with a few digraphs different from all the Euro-Asian languages’ diphthongs. On the other hand, our alphabets were not always 36 from the beginning. It evolved to our present-day Igbo alphabet through reforms and counter-reforms. There were five…