English wasnt and never will be complete if not for over 80% borrowed language. No wonder they have no culture!
And for those native ITK's that keeps degrading our languages please tell me one word for OMUGWO.
~playing wordfeud with a jug of conc tea and family size sliced bread while ITK's get lost in google looking for Engris word for OMUGWO~

iceberylin: Calm down , leme Call Britain and confarm this

You dis man and calling, won fi kolikoli do you ni or mtn dashed you free airtime?

And less I forget, please help us call boko hdqter and tell dem to forgive us, we don tire for all dis dem wahala. Also tell dem say bro J na small boy make dem forgive am and let him enjoy him government!

Thanks

Retardeen

Same as Orixa which is a deity gotten from Orisha

D word cassava frm Nkoro(kirika) kasovia-meaning whitish

I didn't see what I was expecting here, I need words without alteration in their spellings and can be found in the dictionary. The few one I know includes:
Akara
Fufu
Agbada
Etc

ZACHIE: This is misinforming.
The etymologies of the specific words you listed up there are not exclusive, rather borderline assumptions.
Okra,Juju,Tango,etc have much wider spread and use than Nugeria.
The only genuine addition to English language in that list is a Yoruba word: DASHIKI which describes a traditional clothing item.
There are indeed several other words absolved into English emanating from Nigeria b7t certainly not the ones captured by the op in that they are not exclusive.
SUSU is exclusive in area catchment, meaning and application.
I will update this later.

Dashiki is Hausa not Yoruba

Goodx7, Yeahx6

Fufu is also of Nigerian origin

iceberylin: yea bro
am i so Cute

lol, over cute dey worry you.

iceberylin: Calm down , leme Call Britain and confarm this

You too dey make calls... ur papa na CEO of MTN?

Too bad I gave out my OSL ( official scrabble list ) and OSPD ( official scrabble players dictionary ) , all English words with Nigerian origin is listed there and there is about 60 words with Nigerian origin.

how come you know he's the CEO?? hope say u no be this Aba boys weh dh kidnap

neuljosh:

You too dey make calls... ur papa na CEO of MTN?

THANKS BRO

urhoboman: lol, over cute dey worry you.

Check BIMBO

I didn't believe a whole lot of what the op posted ,I had to google African words in enlish language, this is what I saw on Wiki: List of English words of African origin
This is a list of English language words that come from the languages of Africa. It excludes placenames except where they have become common words.
banana – West African, possibly Wolof banana bogus – Hausa boko-boko meaning fake or fraudulent
bongo – West African boungu
bozo – stupid, West African boogie – Wolof or Sierra Leone,
to dance buckra – from Efik and Ibibio mbakara "white man or person"[1] chigger – possibly from Wolof and Yoruba jiga "insect"
chimpanzee – The name is derived from a Tshiluba language term "kivili-chimpenze", which is the local name for the animal and translates loosely as "mockman" or possibly just "ape".
[2] cola – from West African languages (Temne kola, Mandinka kolo) dig, in sense of understand or appreciate – from Wolof dega djembe – from West African languages

hip – from Wolof hipi and hepicat, one with eyes open[dubious ]
jazz – from West African languages (Mandinka jasi, Temne yas)
jive – possibly from Wolof jev juke, jukebox – possibly from Wolof and Bambara dzug through Gullah
kwashiorkor – from Ga language, Coastal Ghana meaning "swollen stomach"
mambo – possibly West African through Haitian Creole Marímbula, plucked musical instrument (lamellophone) of the Caribbean islands merengue (dance) possibly from Fulani mererek i meaning to shake or quiver
mumbo jumbo- from mandigo name Maamajombo, a masked dancer mojo – from Fula moco'o "medicine man" through Louisiana Creole French or Gullah
obeah – from West African (Efik ubio, Twi ebayifo) okay – disputed origins, likely influenced by Wolof waw-kay
okra – from Igbo ókùrù samba from an African language through Brazilian Portuguese [2] [3] , carnaval website
sambo – Fula sambo meaning "uncle" seagull (animal) seagull - from seegall probably from Greek (17th century)
tango – probably from Ibibio tamgu tote – West African via Gullah
voodoo – from West African languages (Ewe and Fon vodu "spirit"
yam – West African (Fula nyami, Twi anyinam) Words of Bantu origin banjo – probably Bantu mbanza
basenji – breed of dog from the Congo
boma – probably from Swahili bwana – from Swahili, meaning an important person or safari leader
chimpanzee – Bantu chimpenze, from nchima ("blue monkey" and mzee "respectable gentleman" [clarification needed]
dengue – possibly from Swahili dinga
fundi – from Ndebele, Xhosa, or Zulu umfundi "disciple, learner, craftsman"
funk – from kikongo lu-fuki "bad body odor" gnu – from Bushman !nu through Khoikhoi i-ngu and Dutch
gnoe goober – possibly from Bantu (Kikongo and Kimbundu nguba) gumbo – from Bantu (Kimbundu ngombo meaning "okra"
impala – from Zulu im-pala impi – from Zulu language meaning war, battle or a regiment indaba – from Xhosa or Zulu languages – 'stories' or 'news' typically conflated with 'meeting' (often used in South African English)
jumbo – from Swahili (jambo or jumbe or from Kongo nzamba "elephant"
kalimba Kwanzaa – from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning "first fruits". lapa – from Sotho languages – enclosure or barbecue area (often used in South African English)
macaque – from Bantu makaku through Portuguese and French
mamba – from Zulu or Swahili mamba marimba – from Bantu (Kimbundu and Swahili marimba, malimba)
okapi – from a language in the Congo safari – from Swahili travel, ultimately from Arabic sangoma – from
Zulu – traditional healer (often used in South African English)
Tilapia – Possibly a latinization "thiape", the Tswana word for fish.
tsetse – from a Bantu language (Tswana tsetse, Luhya tsiisi)
ubuntu – African ideology, from the saying "uMntu ungumntu ngaBantu" – "a human is a human through humans" – Bantu languages

vuvuzela – musical instrument, name of Zulu or Nguni origin zebra – possibly from a language in the Congo zombie – Central African (Kikongo zumbi, Kimbundu nzambi)

otipoju: juju has french origins... it means play thing .. jou-jou

Come let me nack you juju so you can properly differential between jou-jou (the play thing) and juju the real thing

ZACHIE: This is misinforming.
The etymologies of the specific words you listed up there are not exclusive, rather borderline assumptions.
Okra,Juju,Tango,etc have much wider spread and use than Nugeria.
The only genuine addition to English language in that list is a Yoruba word: DASHIKI which describes a traditional clothing item.
There are indeed several other words absolved into English emanating from Nigeria b7t certainly not the ones captured by the op in that they are not exclusive.
SUSU is exclusive in area catchment, meaning and application.
I will update this later.

Looking forward to see how you will spin the truth because Okra or Okwuru is etymologically exclusive to the Igbo in origin and it's not disputable. All dictionaries around the word give the credit to Igbo. Tango may be true of Ibibio. Until now Juju is what i thought was of Yoruba origin.

ISUSU is strictly the Igbo ancient banking style brought to the Americas by Igbo slaves and renamed SUSU, undisputable.

reincarnation: Corruption is also a word of Nigerian origin

Is that so?

Safari is an English word with Kiswahili origins.

Little wonder we have the best english teachers

Mbakara doesn't mean master. It refers to anyone who is white even though nowadays in Cross River and Akwa Ibom, it is used to appreciate a beautiful woman - dark or fair. Some men also bear it as nicknames regardless of their skin colour.
So, when the Efiks refered to the white men as mbakara; it was because of their skin

OROBO is now a NigeriaEnglish word.

Op, Lobbish!

Abeg where To!to and ¥ansh originate from?

Sapele A type of wood

Iroko a tree

Opepe a tree

Obeche a tree

susu a money contribution system


are also borrowed words in the English dictionary

What about[b]yan and yawn, sin and sneeze[/b]

[size=40pt] So no Igbo words... I smell liessssss [/size]

You're kidding me, right? Only those words from things common in Nigeria but unknown to the Europeans and other languages before - like yam, juju, tango, okra, dashiki - are genuinely relevant as originating from Nigerian languages. Most others are from other African and Carribean origins.

Michdear: Check BIMBO

Bimbo
1. An attractive but empty-headed young woman
2. A person especially a fooli$h one





I guess that's your Name

Heheheheehehehhe

firstolalekan: ok
op forgot to add
Retardeen (e.g gej is a retardeen)
Waka (e.g na only you waka come)
daris (e.g daris god o)
Amazingly, all those words are in standard English dictionary

High time mumu or mugu made it also as a new word..

LeMme blow your minds. The word England has a Yoruba "Orijin" When the white men got to where we now have as England, the Yorubas were the ones occupying that "Land" so the white men saw these women in the bush, they were fetching fire wood. Since there's a difference in language, the white men asked the women what they were doing in the bush. It wasn't easy to pass the message to these Yoruba women. At last, they got the question and replied "Igi La n di" meaning "We are tying up firewood"

So the white men decided to name that land "England" Igi la n di.

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaabuuuuuuu oooooooooooooo!!!!!!!