Ikwerre, also spelt as Ikwere, is a language spoken primarily by the Ikwerre people who inhabit Rivers State, Nigeria.
The classification of Ikwerre as an Igbo dialect is a subject of controversy among some in the Ikwerre community. Most publications classify it as an Igboid language. Based on lexicostatistical analysis, Kay Williamson originally asserted that the Ikwerre, Ekpeye, Ogba, Etche and Igbo languages belonged to the same language cluster, but were not dialects. Subsequent studies by both Williamson and Roger Blench concluded that Igbo, Ikwerre, Ogba and their sister languages apart from Ekpeye form a "language cluster" and that they are somewhat mutually intelligible. There are indications that the Ikwerre society was bilingual even in the pre-colonial Nigeria, with people speaking other Igbo dialects and Ikwerre.
Ikwerre distinguishes vowels by quality (frontedness and height), the presence or absence of nasalization, and the presence or absence of advanced tongue root.
assisted paradigm entrusted privately decays
behaving all controlled dependent look alike display
affection for defection when no refuge all the same
dependent never border one world order it away
create a way the mind will have to
find a way in guarding reason alibis
it seems a way defended reasons it seems a way
it seems a way alarming visions it seems a way
a begging man divine instructed shadow poverty
a deeply dirty hiding from too many eaten needs
protection with selection cover all not needing anything
resentment unrelenting change to self destructive means
it seems a way poor execution it seems a way
it seems a way each from a center
it seems a way
addicted horrified abducted outwardly betray
removing all below collective consciousness degrades
ascension from depression which cover chosen all the same
pretend it doesn't matter the world orders it away.
ask as if to find traces out of time back chews on itself a turn that
says it all.
inserting all the tools upon the broken talking dog
if fleeing dirty shadows off of drawings on the wall
a funded self of science from disorder and decay