Ileke-IdI:

ohhh, so, emi ni public view abi?

se o ti bu mi tan?

chic2pimp:

You ke? Lai Lai e mi o gbo do so be ooooo. Awon oso ati aje ni mo n ba wi.

I'm so sowry dearie

MaziUche0:

Not it hasn't people are trying to investigate if our languages our similar. Frankly, I do not think so. I see more similarities with Igbo and Ibibio than I do with Igbo and Yoruba. As a native Ibibio and Igbo speaker. . .

becomrich4:

chic2pimp, there are ilaje in delta state, they are not much, majority live in ondo state.
See map. After the creek separating ondo and Delta state. there are ilaje people on the other side.

becomrich4:

chic2pimp, there are ilaje in delta state, they are not much, majority live in ondo state.
See map.   After the creek separating ondo and Delta state. there are ilaje people on the other side.

Ileke-IdI:

I dont believe you're Deltan. You seem and act more Yoruba to me.

You gotta prove your Deltaness to me. . . emi ati e ko common rara. . . Olorun maje!

There are some similarities, just like in almost every language.

Me
Moi
Mi
M

etc.

But ofcourse, you're always ready to separate anything Yoruba and Igbo. Ibibio sounds nothing like Igbo, what similarities?

excanny:

That is quite understandable.

At least, Igbos are next door neighbours to Ibibios. But how does 2 isolated groups in their current locations come to have very corrupted, but similar words when the other cultures in-between them dont have such words?

ezeagu:

Are you saying Edo doesn't have similar words with Igbo? Are you saying the Igbo only have similar words with the Yoruba?

excanny:

Earlier i gave an example of a shared word 'okwuta/okwute' that exists not only between Igbo, Yoruba and bini but across most of the southern cultures(urhobo, isoko, etc) and it means the same thing- stone.

But there are shared words between Igbo and Yoruba that don't exist in bini, or any of the intermediary cultures between them. How come?

ezeagu:

In Igbo me is 'Muwa'
In French me is 'moi'

In Igbo land is 'Ala'
In Tikar (of Cameroon) land is 'Ala'

In Igbo group is 'otu'
In Urhobo group is 'otu'

Are the French and Igbo from one language? Not necessarily. Could one have influenced the other without necessarily influencing all the languages that are between them by geography? Yes.

excanny:

I was expecting some explanation after you said 'Yes'. Could you enlighten us how this is possible?

excanny:

Earlier i gave an example of a shared word 'okwuta/okwute' that exists not only between Igbo, Yoruba and bini but across most of the southern cultures(urhobo, isoko, etc) and it means the same thing- stone.

But there are shared words between Igbo and Yoruba that don't exist in bini, or any of the intermediary cultures between them. How come?

oludashmi:

Pls those boldened words do not exist in Yoruba AT ALL. Probably it sounds like yoruba but the pronunciation is not and neither is the spelling.

oludashmi:

Okuta means stone. Even with that the language similarities with Igbo is 0.01%. If you say cultural and lang similarities with the Itsekiri and Edos, I agree.

What does the remaining 2 words mean?

oludashmi:

Okuta means stone. Even with that the language similarities with Igbo is 0.01%. If you say cultural and lang similarities with the Itsekiri and Edos, I agree.

What does the remaining 2 words mean?

excanny:

I appreciate your contributions.

But i dont seem to get the 2 remaining words you asked about. Maybe, you will need to remind me.

You can only understand best the line of this argument if you have a grasp of the two languages in question.

@ chyz. Thanks

Andre Uweh:

This thread has no business with politics section. Why hasn't Mukina transfered it to the appropriate section or is it because it is not about Igbo.

chyz:

BINGO!

Andre Uweh:

This thread has no business with politics section. Why hasn't Mukina transfered it to the appropriate section or is it because it is not about Igbo.

Andre Uweh:

Meaning

excanny:

You are right. If it had contained the word 'Igbo', even if it were a reasonable debate amongst the Igbo, it would have long been thrown into the tribalism section. This really disgusts me. Cant we discuss anymore?

This mukina is just so biased.

ezeagu:

Create your own forum.

excanny:

That still wouldn't deal with the bias.

ezeagu:

How? you have your own forum as in website and you can make sure not to biased no? You can discu.s what you want, where you want, no?

excanny:

You are right. If it had contained the word 'Igbo', even if it were a reasonable debate amongst the Igbo, it would have long been thrown into the tribalism section. This really disgusts me. Cant we discuss anymore?

This mukina is just so biased.