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What Year Is It In Your Ethnicity? by kingston277(m): 12:57am On Sep 29, 2014
I was looking around the net and noticed:

Georgian calender: 2014
Igbo calender: 1014–1015
Ethiopian calendar: 2006-2007
Chinese calender: 4710 or 4650
Berber calendar: 2964

Can anyone provide a year from their ethnic group?
Re: What Year Is It In Your Ethnicity? by ChinenyeN(m): 1:43am On Sep 29, 2014
kingston277: I was looking around the net and noticed:

Igbo calender: 1014–1015

Can we get the source for this?
Re: What Year Is It In Your Ethnicity? by Nobody: 12:57pm On Sep 29, 2014
ChinenyeN:

Can we get the source for this?

I believe it is from the 'Igu Aro' (counting the years) of Agukwu-Nri people. I also read a few years back where the Eze-Nri said that that year was the one-thousand-and-something-th year, since the Nri people started keeping record of years.
Re: What Year Is It In Your Ethnicity? by tpia1: 3:21pm On Sep 29, 2014
2014
Re: What Year Is It In Your Ethnicity? by Nobody: 4:18pm On Sep 29, 2014
I don't understand
Re: What Year Is It In Your Ethnicity? by ezeagu(m): 7:26pm On Sep 29, 2014
I think the question is better asked as what year is it in your communities native calendar. The 1014-1015 year is from Nri since they were among the few that counted years with an annual feast.

http://orientnewspaper.com/eze-nri-calls-for-rebuilding-of-odinani-museum/
Re: What Year Is It In Your Ethnicity? by Nobody: 6:31am On Feb 08, 2015
ezeagu:
I think the question is better asked as what year is it in your communities native calendar. The 1014-1015 year is from Nri since they were among the few that counted years with an annual feast.

http://orientnewspaper.com/eze-nri-calls-for-rebuilding-of-odinani-museum/
Its the year when all the maize was attacked by by worms for mine. We counted ours using major events like famine, war.
Re: What Year Is It In Your Ethnicity? by macof(m): 7:09pm On Feb 19, 2015
Well according to some scholars especially Remi Niyi Alaran. 2015 would be 10,057th year of Yoruba time keeping...I don't know their source to this claim but nobody has rebutted it

Jst like the Igbos we have 4days a week dedicated to various Gods worshiped by their devotees
Re: What Year Is It In Your Ethnicity? by itstpia8: 7:30pm On Feb 19, 2015
kingston277:
I was looking around the net and noticed:

Georgian calender: 2014
Igbo calender: 1014–1015
Ethiopian calendar: 2006-2007
Chinese calender: 4710 or 4650
Berber calendar: 2964

Can anyone provide a year from their ethnic group?

not really.

or 3010
Re: What Year Is It In Your Ethnicity? by tpiah99: 9:12pm On Feb 24, 2015
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