bigfrancis21: Navidad!
Feliz navidad - happy christmas.
Feliz ano nuevo - happy new year.

bigfrancis21: Navidad!
Feliz navidad - happy christmas.
Feliz ano nuevo - happy new year.

Mannylex:

Uyai, atie di die?

mimi237:
Oga.....lekalangbeku is xmas while daiil lopelope or daiil sowe is new year.
Happy to c ugep ppl rep here.

mimi237:
Oga.....lekalangbeku is xmas while daiil lopelope or daiil sowe is new year.
Happy to c ugep ppl rep here.

macof:

which language be this?

Odunharry:
wia r u 4m?

Rityben: Efik- Ukabadeh Isua!

bigfrancis21:

Take a wild guess?

macof:

Spanish or Latin
I googled found out it was Spanish.

Rityben: Efik- Ukabadeh Isua!

comforterbility: dat new year not christmas

dino escobar:

Dats watsup because Efik edi mbakara.
Ediye owo etiedidie? Ndi odu ke obio efik, nam ikut eh!

kiddy king:
ikor

Idun'oba ehis:
It's called Ofara in Ika language

iconize:
Ika na language?

mz mariah: yes ika na language.

iconize:
Ika na language?

Fulaman198:

It's a dialect of Igbo language

Idun'oba ehis:
I don't know why you people are so obsessed with Ika people? We are the Ika speakers and we say it's a language, and that's it. If Itsekiri can be a language, why not Ika too?

Idun'oba ehis:
I don't know why you people are so obsessed with Ika people? We are the Ika speakers and we say it's a language, and that's it. If Itsekiri can be a language, why not Ika too?

bigfrancis21:

I travelled to Lagos on saturday, dec 28 2013. On our way, our car spoilt because the fan belt cut. This was in Delta state, right there in Ika land at Ekwuoma communtiy. Being a first time visitor to Ikaland(I've passed before severally, usually while travelling), I decided to walk around a little. I looked for where to buy credit and I walked up to 3 people sitting down under a shade(a woman and 2 men) and I asked in Igbo where to buy a card and they all replied me in igbo willingly and directed me to where I could get it. I got there and there was this old woman who was talking to her grandchild in Ika and I understood her 100% because it sounded almost like general anambra dialect. And the grandson(about 18/19 years old) was replying her in 'Ika' which I also understood.

Its personal experiences like this that make me find it difficult to believe half-baked lies and untruths that some people would rather peddle here. Truth be told, ika is a dialect of the Igbo/Igboid family. However, the people may choose to see themselves as distinct from Igbo. Fine. Americans are not English but yet speak the language of the English, which is English. Yet, Americans recognize their British ancestry and revere the British adorably. Language and ethnicity must not always be the same, but in most cases they are - the English people speak English, the French people speak French, the Hispanic speak Spanish, the Zulu speak Zulu, the Igbo speak Igbo etc.

Two languages are regarded different languages when both of them are distinct from each other with very little or no commonalities between both. The average ika speaker understands central Igbo and can speaks it effortlessly, and vice versa. Under language, Ika is an Igbo dialect.

Fulaman198:

That's very interesting, thanks for sharing

Tony Tone: Upe(Igarra. Edo state--the Spain in Naija)