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What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by Ikennamurphy: 7:56am On Jul 12, 2020
_Someone from Ebonyi is an Ebonyian

_Someone from Abia is an Abian

_Someone from Imo is an Imolite

_Someone from Anambra is an Anambrarian

What is someone from Enugu called? grin

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Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by HonSuQMaDIQ(m): 7:57am On Jul 12, 2020
Enguin .... Coined from penguin

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Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by Ikennamurphy: 7:59am On Jul 12, 2020
HonSuQMaDIQ:
Enguin .... Coined from penguin
Totally off.. Some people will not understand the initial keyword

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Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by Otuegbe: 8:00am On Jul 12, 2020
Someone from OGUN is called what?
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by robinso01(m): 8:02am On Jul 12, 2020
Enuguian.

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Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by Nobody: 8:04am On Jul 12, 2020
Otuegbe:
Someone from OGUN is called what?
Ọmọ Ogun.

Why do we feel the need to "Englishify" it?

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Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by LegendAnselm: 8:05am On Jul 12, 2020
Ikennamurphy:
_Someone from Ebonyi is an Ebonyian
_Someone from Abia is an Abian
_Someone from Imo is an Imolite
_Someone from Anambra is an Anambrarian
What is someone from Enugu called? grin
they ar been call o42..

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Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by Ikennamurphy: 8:09am On Jul 12, 2020
LegendAnselm:
they ar been call o42..
Leave that one Jare.. Onitsha is called ndị otu and it doesn't alter what I wrote

042 is Enugu state dial code just as 043 is that of Ebonyi
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by Ikennamurphy: 8:09am On Jul 12, 2020
robinso01:
Enuguian.
Hahaha hahaha.. This one sounds Chinese
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by SpecialAdviser(m): 8:10am On Jul 12, 2020
I am from Enugu. Have only heard of people calling us 042. Some also call us wawa people.

I think people from Enugu can also be called the Enugus.

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Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by Ikennamurphy: 8:10am On Jul 12, 2020
Otuegbe:
Someone from OGUN is called what?
Let's stick to East and leave the west before it resorts to something else

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Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by Ikennamurphy: 8:13am On Jul 12, 2020
SpecialAdviser:
I am from Enugu. Have only heard of people calling us 042. Some also call us wawa people.

I think people from Enugu can also be called the Enugus.
I'm not talking about a different name just as onitsha people are just ndi otu.. I mean a name derived from Enugu itself

I haven't really heard about Enugus though
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by LegendAnselm: 8:15am On Jul 12, 2020
Ikennamurphy:

Leave that one Jare.. Onitsha is called ndị otu and it doesn't alter what I wrote

042 is Enugu state dial code just as 043 is that of Ebonyi
sorry they ar call enugus. Or egungus
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by holycup(m): 8:15am On Jul 12, 2020
Simply call him or her nwà 042.







Umu 042 ibém let’s gather here

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Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by SpecialAdviser(m): 8:17am On Jul 12, 2020
Ikennamurphy:

I'm not talking about a different name just as onitsha people are just ndi otu.. I mean a name derived from Enugu itself

I haven't really heard about Enugus though

Truth is that no name has ever been ascribed to Enugu people derived from Enugu itself. There is no formal way people from a state are ascribed a name. It just become popular when people start calling the name. For instance people Kano or Kaduna also don't have.

I proposed people from Enugu are called the Enugus. Once it start been repeated on social media. It holds.
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by dukeprince50: 8:18am On Jul 12, 2020
I don't know other states, all I know Is we are called Rivarians,
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by realstars: 8:19am On Jul 12, 2020
Otuegbe:
Someone from OGUN is called what?
Oguna
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by naptu2: 8:20am On Jul 12, 2020
naptu2:


States and demonyms

Kano = Kanawa

Enugu = Ndi Enugu

Edo = Edo

Katsina = Katsinawa
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by naptu2: 8:20am On Jul 12, 2020
naptu2:
The thing is that demonyms are not always created in the same way. There are some demonyms that might seem unusual.

For example:

A person from England is English, a person from Finland is Finnish, but a person from The Netherlands is Dutch.




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Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by naptu2: 8:22am On Jul 12, 2020
naptu2:


Ondo and Edo are meant to share something in common (although it's a bit controversial). The demonym is meant to be exactly the same as the name of the state. This is because there was an ancient kingdom called Ondo and the people of that kingdom are known as Ondo. (The problem is that I don't think that all the people that are from Ondo State are from that kingdom). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondo_Kingdom

Similarly, people from Edo State are known as Edo, because there is an ethnicity known as Edo (the controversy is that I'm not sure that all the people from Edo State are from that ethnicity).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_people

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Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by Ikennamurphy: 8:23am On Jul 12, 2020
SpecialAdviser:


Truth is that no name has ever been ascribed to Enugu people derived from Enugu itself. There is no formal way people from a state are ascribed a name. It just become popular when people start calling the name. For instance people Kano or Kaduna also don't have.

I proposed people from Enugu are called the Enugus. Once it start been repeated on social media. It holds.
That's a good proposal cheesy
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by realstars: 8:23am On Jul 12, 2020
People From Enugu Are Calld The Enugus.
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by Skyfornia(m): 8:24am On Jul 12, 2020
Onye Enugu, wawa or 042

Choose one or keep quiet
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by Ikennamurphy: 8:25am On Jul 12, 2020
author=naptu2
Use my example @op and get the point.

Ndị Ebonyi
Ndị Abia
Ndị imo
Ndị Anambra also applies like ndị Enugu

But Abian, Ebonyian, Imolite, Anambrarian still exist.. So?
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by naptu2: 8:26am On Jul 12, 2020
People from Ogun are called Omo Ogun (it's actually in the state anthem).
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by Ikennamurphy: 8:27am On Jul 12, 2020
Skyfornia:
Onye Enugu, wawa or 042

Choose one or remain quiet
Calm down no be fight.. Onye imo, onye Abia still exist but yet are called Abian, Imolite.. Talk about a name derived from Enugu
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by Ikennamurphy: 8:27am On Jul 12, 2020
holycup:
Simply call him or her nwà 042.







Umu 042 ibém let’s gather here
You don't get the point I think
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by naptu2: 8:29am On Jul 12, 2020
Ikennamurphy:

Use my example @op and get the point.

Ndị Ebonyi
Ndị Abia
Ndị imo
Ndị Anambra also applies like ndị Enugu

But Abian, Ebonyian, Imolite, Anambrarian still exist.. So?


https://mobile.twitter.com/obyezeks/status/932550447168217088

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Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by Ikennamurphy: 8:30am On Jul 12, 2020
author=naptu2 post=91628530]


https://mobile.twitter.com/obyezeks/status/932550447168217088
Her personal opinion doesn't change the general public view.. Is her personal opinion and just as it is
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by Sammy07: 8:31am On Jul 12, 2020
naptu2:
People from Ogun are called Omo Ogun (it's actually in the state anthem).

Ogun - Omo ogun
Osun - Omo osun
Ondo - omo ondo
Ekiti - omo Ekiti
Lagos - Omo eko
Oyo - omo oyo
Re: What Is Someone From Enugu Called? Look At This by Skyfornia(m): 8:31am On Jul 12, 2020
Ikennamurphy:

Calm down no be fight.. Onye imo, onye Abia still exist but yet are called Abian, Imolite.. Talk about a name derived from Enugu

Must it be English? What if ndi Enugu refused to be oyibonized?? Enugu is an ancient city rooted in Igbo cultures and traditions..we don't want to be recolonised mentally like you are doing now. We remain 'wawa' or Ndi Enugu

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