onuwaje:


i am just trying to spread the gospel

jiangchu:
most of your word are a corruption of yoruba language.

Efewestern:


uko doesn't sound yoruboid, so how can itsekiri own it? uko and kokodie are pure urhobo word, no doubt urhobo borrowed some words from itsekiri.

onuwaje:


no

Probz:
Then there you go. They're not Yoruba. Only their language is.

kajsa08:

Exactly, when most igara's speak, I understand fully what they say. My pop is essan n mom from imoga, akoko-edo n m married to an isoko man.

taoheedoriloye:

wow! very interesting.
I am from ikare - akoko , ondo state.
Most of Itshekiris language are very similar to ours.that means I can easily understand Itshekiri .
utukpa :lamp
uda:sword
there words are the same in pronunciation and meaning

onuwaje:


Oritseofemi that's d best Itsekiri translation i can transcribe for now lol

Efewestern:
@onuwaje is femi an itsekiri word cous it's only oristefemi that's bearing that name as itsekiri

darediamond:

Earlier, they are regarded as "Awaseka" or Awa/Ise//Kiri because they migrated to that region they are from Lagos back I the ages. All South South peoe are all from the West.

ransomed:
:::-- What language or dialect is that? Do you want to sit here? Lol, let us move on.

. . . You just translated it and still asking

onuwaje:


dunno

taoheedoriloye:
one love to you.
But why and how we are so divided like this.we don't See each other as one people.
who divided us?

Efewestern:


divide ke, who is dividing who?

darediamond:

Earlier, they are regarded as "Awaseka" or Awa/Ise//Kiri because they migrated to that region they are from Lagos back I the ages. All South South peoe are all from the West.

inze:


. . . You just translated it and still asking

onuwaje:
still.on Itsekiri 101

Greeting
Ere-Ósón/Erósón (Good afternoon)
Response: Ere-Ósón ra to alé (let the good of the afternoon lead u to the evening) or Ere-Ósón Omeremi (good afternoon my person

Greeting
Ere-alé/Eralé (Good evening)
Response
Ere-alé je (we enjoy d evening together) or Eralé Omeremi

Greeting
Ode-ejuma/Odejuma (good night)
[Ejuma means tomoro in Itsekiri]

Response: Ode-ejuma/Odejuma

Other salutations and response in Itsekiri includes (with their reply in bracket)
Erubó "welcome" (Adokpe "thanks"

Also when in a gathering to acknowledge the presence of everybody one is expected to say the following

1. Oma-Iwéré dede mo kiaghan (pronounced "Omiwéré dede mokian) which literally means "child of Iwéré i salute u all"
The response is
Ené jé (we accept)

N:B Itsekiri call their homeland in general IWÉRÉ


2nd form of greeting in itsekiri is
Aja mo kiaghan (pronounced Aja mokian) it means i salute the community/village as Aja in Itsekiri means village/town/settlement


The reply is
Aja jé (the town/village/community accepts)


So on nairaland i can say

Nairaland Mo kiaghan lol the response will be nairaland jé

onuwaje:
Popular household items
1. Aga (Chair)
2. Iméjé (Table)
3. Utukpa (lamp)
4. Ekpetin (box)
5. Ukpo (bed)
6. Ésété (plate)
7. Ukujéré (spoon)
8. Uko (cup)
9. Éwo (pot)
10. udayibo (cutlass)
11. uda (sword)

onuwaje:


i am not understanding ur point of argument sir

orlahtohbadt:
Your head dey there... Every Yoruba speaks two Yoruba dialect, the standard one and the one from his Origin... I speak the Lagos standard Yoruba and the one of Ijesa

onuwaje:
still.on Itsekiri 101

Greeting
Ere-Ósón/Erósón (Good afternoon)
Response: Ere-Ósón ra to alé (let the good of the afternoon lead u to the evening) or Ere-Ósón Omeremi (good afternoon my person

Greeting
Ere-alé/Eralé (Good evening)
Response
Ere-alé je (we enjoy d evening together) or Eralé Omeremi

Greeting
Ode-ejuma/Odejuma (good night)
[Ejuma means tomoro in Itsekiri]

Response: Ode-ejuma/Odejuma

Other salutations and response in Itsekiri includes (with their reply in bracket)
Erubó "welcome" (Adokpe "thanks"

Also when in a gathering to acknowledge the presence of everybody one is expected to say the following

1. Oma-Iwéré dede mo kiaghan (pronounced "Omiwéré dede mokian) which literally means "child of Iwéré i salute u all"
The response is
Ené jé (we accept)

N:B Itsekiri call their homeland in general IWÉRÉ


2nd form of greeting in itsekiri is
Aja mo kiaghan (pronounced Aja mokian) it means i salute the community/village as Aja in Itsekiri means village/town/settlement


The reply is
Aja jé (the town/village/community accepts)


So on nairaland i can say

Nairaland Mo kiaghan lol the response will be nairaland jé

A190:
every yoruba ke? Where some bastards born and bred in Osogbo speak only English. Yet them parents are Yoruba

A190:
every yoruba ke? Where some bastards born and bred in Osogbo speak only English. Yet them parents are Yoruba

jomoh:








During the old regional government before the first coup by the igbo soldiers, Delta state with Warri(Itsekiri base) as it's capital was part of western region.

The colonial masters was not our problem. They divided us into regions according to our cultural classification but our problem started after the first coup and the Military head of state that benefited the coup cancelled the regional form of government. That birthed a unitry system of government. This is the reason why people that knows history find it hard to forgive the Igbos.

You can Google the history and read more.

martineverest:
only u?... I'm esan tho

A190:

Do akoko people recognize their links with Okun of Kogi and Akoko of Edo?

kn23h:


Very similar to other Yoruba dialects too

taoheedoriloye:
there more more than nexus between we and okun people of kogi.infact, "OKUN" meaning bawoni in yoruba.all akoko use okun as first greeting, and we are like twins. Most men in my home town (IKARE) married from okun, we are more familiar with them than yorubas from oyo or osun.
I left my town to abuja befor I realized the are different tribe.
again who divided us?

9jakool:

Yeah Lagos Yoruba is pretty much a spin off of the Standard Yoruba. If only you stayed in Epe or Ikorodu outskirts of Lagos, then you could familiarize yourself with Ijebu or Remo dialect which is very very close to Itsekiri. A fluent Ijebu speaker can probably pick up Itsekiri in a very short amount of time. Yorubas typically speak two dialects/register of the Yoruba language; the dialectal one and the standard one.

YungMillionaire:
I laugh at some of these people saying we are not Yorubas. I know where my own people migrated from. So you can keep your politics to yourselves. Even most of the Itshekiris that claim Bini origin are actually from Ondo state. And people should stop confusing ORIGIN with INFLUENCE. Just because we have a lot of Bini influence does not mean our origin is Bini. Our situation is similar to the Ikas of Anioma who actually originate from Bini but heavily Igbo-influenced. That is why when Sunday Oliseh said he is not Igbo, he was not been disrespectful of them. He was only telling the truth. Imagine all those millions of Igbos living in the SW today. Maybe 300 years from now we know say because they are influenced by the SW culture they are now Yorubas even though they originate from the SE. It does not make sense. And it is shocking, that some of our people are making this elementary mistake. As for me and my house - we know our origin.