Abeg oh!!, Trust CNN to make my small remark the highlight of their day. And people ask why the ratings at CNN has dropped so much

I notice there are alot of Imo and Abia people around here which makes it ridiculously difficult for an Anambra born and bred like me to understand what you're trying to type.

OMG!!! I GUESS I THOT THE OPPOSITE AS YOU! LOL. I THOT ALMOST EVERYONE HERE WAS FROM ANAMBRA EXCEPT ME SO IT'S HARD TO UNDASTAND DI IGBO LOL.

ghettochyk:

OMG!!! I GUESS I THOT THE OPPOSITE AS YOU! LOL. I THOT ALMOST EVERYONE HERE WAS FROM ANAMBRA EXCEPT ME SO IT'S HARD TO UNDASTAND DI IGBO LOL.

Na wa O!Some are pointing to Imo and Abia while some are pointing to Anambra!Where are we from then?Calabar?

No, you're from Enugu state, Nsukka to be precise.

I know but I'm just trying to explain why his Igbo is so difficult to understand. Nsukka/Ogwu people in Enugu state speak something not really close from the Igbo you hear everyday but it's all Igbo.

oh, i see, lol. are you from imo or abia?

ghettochyk:

no he aint, he says he's from and i quote "anambala".

Yeah i am from Anambra state and I must confess my writing skills in Igbo arent that good.But that is just 4 me.Others are good like toshman,Ugwumba,edygirl 2fine.I can read thiers pretty well.Sometimes I can not even read wat I have written down.I guess that means anytime I post in igbo you better ignore it

Donzman:

I know but I'm just trying to explain why his Igbo is so difficult to understand. Nsukka/Ogwu people in Enugu state speak something not really close from the Igbo you hear everyday but it's all Igbo.

Hey Donzman Anyway na you get ur mouth

lol.






HEY!!! WHY DIDN'T YOU INCLUDE ME IN THE GOOD IGBO WRITERS?!!!! YOU OUGHTA BE PROUD OF WHAT I[i] CAN[/i] WRITE!!!!!!

ghettochyk:

oh, i see, lol. are you from imo or abia?

From the great Anambra state or Anambara, can't spell properly right now.

i undastand igbo but i know some anambra people dat i bearly undastand their igbo. i gotta lissen real close. i'ont know how other people sound but i unda most Imo people but within Imo people, there's still different dialects i can't undastand. like the one i learned when i went to 9ja was the village one and ma cousin's speak the city one so they bearly undastand the village one. u shud hear the village one, it make EVERYTING sound funny!! lol.

I prefer the Owerri/Mbaise/Ngwa dialect of Igbo.Very funny

Don't make fun of the language.

Aren't Owerri people those that go "Duuru ala" when they want to say "sit down"?

Donzman:

Aren't Owerri people those that go "Duuru ala" when they want to say "sit down"?

Exactly!Thier dialect is very funny.
Hey I think I need that recording ghettochyk.Always makes my day wheneva I listen to a guy called uche ogbuagu entertain in the dialect

@dozman
no where'd you get that from? sit dung is "noguo odu or noguo ala" but i'm not too sure because i don't speak owerri igbo. compared to village igbo and other "smaller" areas in imo state, owerri igbo is more like our standard igbo. like country english in america and regular english: the country people are mroe comfortable speaking country but can also speak rehular english wehn neccessary


ps: duuru ala means "lie down" not "sit down"

Donzman:

I know but I'm just trying to explain why his Igbo is so difficult to understand. Nsukka/Ogwu people in Enugu state speak something not really close from the Igbo you hear everyday but it's all Igbo.

Donzman, marakwa na-esi m Enugu. Nkanu to be precise so onye ozo suo ihe abughi central igbo anarue m ulo. . Asuba m Nkanu ozugbo ozugbo.

@edygirl

Ndo, I'm very sorry.

Asuba m nkanu ozugbo ozugbo.

What does that mean?

@Ghettochyk

Please send me the recording you have. Thanks!

@Donzman,
Nsogbu adighi my broda.

@uche
i swear only imo state igbo sounds "normal" in my ear. OMG!! is it just me?!!!! i'm freaking out !!!!!!!! i used to laff at my mom's anambra's friend's igbo! lol. she says "fa" and not "ha" and says "ife" and not "ihe". lol.

@donzman
u want one too huh? lol

Donzman:




What does that mean?

It means I will start speaking it immediately (that which you said Enugu people speak) because I can write it really good.

she says "fa" and not "ha" and says "ife" and not "ihe". lol.

I used to speak like that when I was younger, I lived in Onitsha then. Fa, Ife, Oburo mu, Amarom, e.t.c. "I don't know" in my village goes like "Amaghokwom"

Ghettochyk, yeah send it to my e-mail or something. Thanks in advance.

edygirl:

Donzman, marakwa na-esi m Enugu. Nkanu to be precise so onye ozo suo ihe abughi central igbo anarue m ulo. . Asuba m Nkanu ozugbo ozugbo.

@edy girl.Abeg,I take God beg do not even think about it or we will leave this thread 4 u
The ife and and fa is an attempt to modernize the language in order for it to be more mainstream.You need a lot of consonants to make words pronouncable to even a non native!
@ghettochk wey the recording nnnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww

lol. i'd send y'all one as soon as i find one

if you want some real laffs, go to my village, you'd wonder if these people are even speaking igbo. lol. i'm starting to think it sounds like yoruba people attempting to speak igbo. lol. dang! i wonder why it's completely different from owerri/central igbo, it's right in imo

And where is ya village?
Funny I am listening to Oriental brothers a very famous band and apart from the beat wat I like is the lingo in whichn they deliver thei lyrics.So So funny!

"ebe ahu" or "nga ahu" would be "ngwo"

"ebe a" or "nga a" cud be "nga a" or "anyii"

"gini" would be "ngeree"

"gaa laba" (go to bed) would be[b] "gee lakpuru"[/b]


"isi gini" (what did you say?) would be "ishi ngere" and so on.

everyting dat's "si" as in "isi", "nsi", wud be "ishi", "nshi", "shi" (to say), etc.

Uche2nna:

@edy girl.Abeg,I take God beg do not even think about it or we will leave this thread for you

Nna uchenna idi very funny. Okwa giwa siri mmadu kitikpa racha ya anya. Gosh!! ochi egbue m here.

"Go lie down"  Nkanu ga- asi gi "je jinaru ani"

@uche
where are the oriental brothers from? i've heard of a photogrpahy company in my village wit da same name