The journey into the present spelling system took off when in 1986, Professor John Egbe Enyi’s administration as Chairman Oju Local Government Council hosted the National Conference on Igede Language, literature and culture. The main proponents of the orthography then were Mr Ogwuna Oboh and Rev John Adimah, guided by Dr. John Adive, a linguist, who was the Director of the Nigeria Bible Translation Trust, Jos.
They gathered all the data needed for their proposals. They attended meetings within and outside Igede land and made preliminary presentation of the proposed orthography. Finally, in 1992, it was approved and published in manual VI of Nigerian orthographies by National Educational and Research Development Council (NERDC), Abuja.
Back home, Ogwuna Oboh and Adagba Ede coauthored an official publication on the orthography in 1999. This gave an overview of everything involved in the making of the Igede standard orthography in a popular book- Igede Gedegede.
Are you standard orthography compliant? Or you just dey write anyhow?
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