HopeAtHand:
Using Onitsha as case study shows a people can lose their original language overtime simply because they settled in an environment that they are hugely outnumbered by the natives.

Ihuruohas case is simple to understand to an unbiased mind. Say a man leaves ghana with his wife and kids, settles in an area close to Owerri. Take note of his language and culture at that time. Come back after 500 yrs and study his language and cultural pattern
and make a submission.

The Riverine communities of Okrika and Kalabari will have little cultural effect on Ikwerres because they are far smaller and do not have common land boundaries with Us. They are communities you must use canoe to access. Even so, a substantial percentage of Bonny, Opobo and Okrika have Igbo ancestry, and this are towns that are Riverine. yet Igbos still found ways to supply those communities with human population, especially Opobo.

somegirl1:


What does Ihuruoha mean in Bini?

HopeAtHand:


a brief history of Onitsha will enlighten you on the history of a people and the reality of today.

[b]Onitsha Mmili was known as Ado N'Idu by
migrants who departed from the vicinity
of the Kingdom of Benin near the far
western portion of Igboland (near what is
now Agbor), after a violent dispute with
the Oba of Benin that can be tentatively
dated to the early 1500s.[4] Traveling
eastward through what is now Western
Igboland (and various towns also called
"Onitsha", for example Onicha-Ugbo,
"farmland-Onitsha". Folklore has it that,
Onitsha was founded by one of the sons
of Chima, the founder of Issele-Uku
kingdom in western Igboland. Chima, a
prince of the ancient Benin kingdom
emigrated, settled and founded now
known as Issele-Uku in Aniocha North
Local Government Area. The eldest son of
Chima eventually emigrated across the
Niger River to establish the Onitsha
community.
After their arrival on the east bank
(Onicha-mmili, "Onitsha-on-water", see
above), the community gradually became
a unitary kingdom, evolving from a loosely
organized group of "royal" villages to
encompass "non-royal" villages
comprising Igala settlers, and the native
Igbos to form a more centralized entity.[5]
Eze Aroli, was apparently the first
genuinely powerful Obi of Onitsha, the
ruler of the city.[/b]

OdenigboAroli:



From Iwhuruoha to Ihuruoha. Grasping at straws It's a shame. Ikwerre people are inferior and only an inferior will deny his identity.

ChinenyeN:
It is one thing to discuss (as intelligently as possible) the misrepresentation of historical relations in the case of Ikwerre. It is another thing to come in here and attempt to shame someone or a whole people over a name you know likely know nothing about. In other words, if you know you do not have sufficient knowledge to speak on the name Iwhnerneohna, then simply keep your mouth shut.

ChinenyeN:
No Igboid. You don't reserve any right. You have no idea what the name is, nor what it means, nor how it is pronounced. You are only making yourself (and by extension, the rest of Igbo) look dumb.

Getting "entertainment" from someone else's name and attempting to shame them for their name (spelling, pronunciation or otherwise) is something unlearned people do. If you want to discuss Ikwerre people remixing history for the sake of something simple like self-determination, then sure. Feel free, but know your limit. You argument becomes weak once you start down this road of ridiculing that which you know nothing about, not to even talk about it being a name that isn't even yours to answer in the first place. That is childish behavior and does nothing to further a discussion nor buttress your point.

cheruv:
Ihuruoha is the real name of the ikwerre...I think we should stop calling them ikwerre and start calling them IHURUOHA or even shorten it to IhuOha
Dee Hopeathand what do you think?

LadySarah:
My Etche bf disagrees with the Op.His father is a traditional ruler there and he categorically told me he is Igbo.

I made sure I spoke Igbo with him when we spoke even though we could hardly understand each other but we tried.

LadySarah:
My Etche bf disagrees with the Op.His father is a traditional ruler there and he categorically told me he is Igbo.

I made sure I spoke Igbo with him when we spoke even though we could hardly understand each other but we tried.