The word food refers to any edible cooked or uncooked thing that can be consumed for energy and good living. Aname is an identity mark given to an object which differentiates it from other objects in the same group, while typology is concerned with the classification of a group of things based on shared common features. Ngwa is a dialect of the Igbo language. The word Ngwa also refers to the
people and the geo – political area known as Ngwa land. Amajor of the objective of this paper is: to give an account of some of the names and types of food eaten by the Ngwa people as part of their cultural heritage. Data for this paper was collected from four competent native speakers of Ngwa. As a native speaker of Ngwa, my intuition also helped in the assessment of every information that was
collected.
The framework on which this paper was carried out is the Language documentation
framework. The choice for this framework is because it aims to gather and preserve long lasting
corpora while a language is still being spoken, so that such information could be used for language or cultural preservation and revitalization. Some of the findings of this paper are: that the Ngwa people
have their own food on which they thrive in spite of foreign foods that have been introduced into their
environment, that the name given to every type of food may indicate the nature (liquid, solid or semi-solid), the manner of preparation, or the source of the food, it was found out too that watery soup is a
most preferred type of food by the Ngwa people, and that special meals are cooked for ceremonious occasions. This paper, recommends further research and documentation of the food names and types
in Ngwa land.