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Abagworo: From the written form, I dont think the language has anything in common with Yoruba apart from Oba and Baale. I dont believe its even Yoruboid not to talk of Yoruba proper. I will like to see written Awori.

Dude go sleep, Awori, Egun , Ekiti, even Ijebu etc all cannot be understood because we have different dialect. Written awori is closer like egba mixed with egun.

Today we call ourselves yoruba at least until Nigeria breaks.

Can a typical yoruba understand kabba or owo ? No

ekt_bear: alj harem.

Egun folk are non-Yoruba. Didn't you get the memo.

Thus, we should be here demanding Badagry State and Makoko State for the marginized Egun indigenes

Hehehhehe

That was 6 Yoruba states in the SW zone and 2 Egun states.

Clowns, the same Igbo people Benin repulic was chasing out of their country 3 years ago. Boni Yaya is a typical Egun name and he is yoruba today.

Oba Rilwan is a typical Egun.

I can keep going on and on

Yes we have lost our dialect because we picked up the Ibadan dialect and so what ? Heck anything apart from Igbo people is fine

My point is that, practically today these folks are Yoruba. That is the only language they speak, they bear Yoruba names, etc.

So you may as well use this as an opportunity to add two additional states, no?

ekt_bear: My point is that, practically today these folks are Yoruba. That is the only language they speak, they bear Yoruba names, etc.

So you may as well use this as an opportunity to add two additional states, no?

Gbammm, we are happy to be one today

Gun
A language of Benin

ISO 639-3: guw
Population 320,000 in Benin (2006). Population total all countries: 579,000.
Region Southeast, Weme Province, Akpro-Misserete, Avrankou, Adjara, and Porto-Novo subprefectures. Also in Nigeria.
Language map Benin, reference number 26
Alternate names Alada, Alada-Gbe, Egun, Goun, Gu, Gugbe, Gun-Alada, Gun-Gbe, Seto-Gbe, Toli-Gbe
Dialects Ajra, Alada, Seto, Toli.
Classification Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Kwa, Left Bank, Gbe, Aja
Language use Also use Fon [fon] or French.
Language development Literacy rate in L1: 1%–5%. Radio programs. Bible: 1923–1972.
Writing system Latin script.
Comments Traditional religion, Christian.
Also spoken in:
Nigeria
Language name Gun
Population 259,000 in Nigeria (2000).
Region Lagos state, Badagry LGA.
Alternate names Gugbe, Gun-Alada, Gun-Gbe, Seto-Gbe
Dialects Alada (Alada-Gbe), Asento, Gbekon, Gun (Gu, Egun, Goun), Phela, Savi, Weme, Seto.




ISO 639-2: yor
Population 18,850,000 in Nigeria (1993 Johnstone). Population total all countries 20,000,000 (1991 UBS). Including second language speakers: 22,000,000 (1999 WA).
Region Most of Oyo, Ogun, Ondo Osun, Kwara, and Lagos states; and western LGAs of Kogi State. Also spoken in Benin, Togo, United Kingdom, USA.
Alternate names YOOBA, Yoruba
Dialects OYO, IJESHA, ILA, IJEBU, ONDO, WO, OWE, JUMU, IWORRO, IGBONNA, YAGBA, GBEDDE, EGBA, AKONO, AWORO, BUNU (BINI), EKITI, ILAJE, IKALE, AWORI.
Classification Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Defoid, Yoruboid, Edekiri.
Comments Official language. Grammar. SVO. Literacy rate in second language: 35%. Roman. Newspapers, radio programs, TV. Christian, Muslim, traditional religion. Bible 1884-1966.
Also spoken in:
Benin
Language name YORUBA
Population 465,000 in Benin (1993 Johnstone).
Alternate names YOOBA, Yoruba, EDE-YORUBA
Dialects EGBA.
Comments Bilingualism in French. Literacy rate in first language: 1% to 30%. Traditional religion, Christian, Muslim. Bible 1884-1966. See main entry under Nigeria.

gidiMonsta:

na waoh

Why would I lie to prove a point to a buffoon like you? The fact that you refuse bring up any credible point in your useless banter shows the level at which your thinking faculties operate. I am proud of my heritage now and always.

What point are you talking about…am the op

The Aworis and Eguns ve said it all, no other point will be more valid than theirs

The points are staring you in the face … but you ve chosen to play the ostrich

This link will be of help to you
http://www.nairaland.com/850160/aworis-asking-all-yorubas-move/3#10155496

btw when are you moving back to your cave at least you should be proud of your village heritage

stop claiming other peoples land

Jonrnal by Ewe-gun person

These issues are examined using
qualitative data collected among the Ogu, a sub-Yoruba ethnic group in southwestern
Nigeria.

http://www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol14/8/14-8.pdf

ekwy nwa:





What point are you talking about…am the op

The Aworis and Eguns ve said it all, no other point will be more valid than theirs

The points are staring you in the face … but you ve chosen to play the ostrich

This link will be of help to you
http://www.nairaland.com/850160/aworis-asking-all-yorubas-move/3#10155496

btw when are you moving back to your cave at least you should be proud of your village heritage

stop claiming other peoples land

Ok I don hear

Badagry is a corroption of the original, "Ogbaglee" which means "a farm near the swamp."
Alhaji boko haram, what does Ogbaglee mean in Awori or Yoruba?

boko haram: Also do you know that before the invasion of bini egun called lagos greme ? which means farm land ?

alj boko harem, what does Greme mean in Yoruba na?

By the way, you are a liar. Greme was never the name for Lagos, but for a small farm near Badagry. Only a stup!d person will believe that the entire Lagos was an Egun farm. I don't know what can make anyone that stup!d apart from being fed gari as a baby instead of milk.

^^^^^^^

I have posted this before Ogba is place or land or settlement

Greme is farm.

Ogbaglee which is actually Ogbagreme

Awori original dialect it was called Igbaganran. Id you notice the O and I then the A and E

they are dialects of each other if you pronounce it. It is too complicated for your brain to handle, stick with your Igbo brothers in bigotry.

Beaf:

alj boko harem, what does Greme mean in Yoruba na?

What is yoruba ? Oyo Dialect or what ?

Yoruba is a collection of nations, not just Ibadan dialect

Farm in Kabba is totally differnet from Farm in Ijebu

Mumu liek you. Oyo is not yoruba. Get it

alj harem:

Ok I don hear

@ alj harem am not addressing you are you gidiMonsta

one man 20 monikers, you no dey tire

today you be yoruba, 2moro Kanuri, next, Igbo...which one re you

@boko harem

Ogbaglee is Ogbaglee. What the phuck does Ogbaglee mean in Yoruba na?
You want to be imperialist on a minority. You chop winsh?

Ethnologue report is the most credible classification of languages in the world. So I do not see any issues or misunderstanding here. Egun is not even Benue/Congo not to talk of Yoruboid.

Beaf: Ogbaglee is Ogbaglee. What the phuck does Ogbaglee mean in Yoruba na?
You want to be imperialist on a minority. You chop winsh?

Mumu again what is yoruba ? Oyo dialect ?

Ok let me give you a little secret and this was passed down to my father by his grand-father the former Oba eko

Awori means water loving people. We aworis know the meaning of Awori but lets say an Ibadan yoruba would say it was Ododuwa that said we migrated etc, we accepted it as it is a binding factor not just because we do not know the meaning

Aw (awon)- people

Ori- water.

Get it, This is Egun- Awori 101 classes for you just to show you I am not a fake.

Abagworo: Ethnologue report is the most credible classification of languages in the world. So I do not see any issues or misunderstanding here. Egun is not even Benue/Congo not to talk of Yoruboid.

Do you mind these people?
Egun is closer to languages spoken in Ghana than anything in Nigeria. But the cretins are claiming that Ewe and Ga people too are Yoruba (against all advice and common sense).

I asked boko haram to translate this video and he staggered like an almajiri under the influence of tombo!

[flash=480,385]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3FIWNdQcTM&hl=en_GB&fs=1[/flash]

An Egun speaker wouldn't find problems speaking and understanding the language spoken in that video.

Abagworo: Ethnologue report is the most credible classification of languages in the world. So I do not see any issues or misunderstanding here. Egun is not even Benue/Congo not to talk of Yoruboid.

But they call themselves yoruba, Do you have a problem with that ?

IS Boni yayi a typical Yoruba name ?

Benin President: I am Yoruba

President of Benin Republic, Dr Thomas Boni Yayi, yesterday shocked prominent Yoruba Obas and leaders when he announced in impeccable Yoruba at Ile-Ife that he was happy to be back home.

Yayi, who was in Ile Ife to receive an honourary doctorate degree from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), IIe-Ife and a chieftaincy title from the Ooni of Ife, declared that he was happy to be where his story started.

"Kabiyesi, my being here today is homecoming. It is the water that weaned me that I have come to see. It is the bosom that I sucked that I have come to behold. Just continue to pray for me-your son who is the President of Benin Republic," he told the Ooni after he was conferred with the chieftaincy title of Sooko Adimula Obaninuola of Ife.

Yayi, who is from the Yoruba-speaking part of Benin Republic, told his audience which included Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Afenifere leaders Chiefs Reuben Fasoranti and Ayo Adebanjo including the Emir of Katsina, Alhaji AbdulMumini Kabir Usman that his country and Nigeria were inseparable brothers.

"Nigeria and Benin share the same culture, people and history. Indeed, Benin is Nigeria's 37th state while Nigeria is Benin's 7th department"he said.

He added that he was happy that the regional integration started by former President Olusegun Obasanjo was being continued by the Yar'Adua administration.

The Beninoise president, who thanked Oyinlola for the warmth with which he received him at the Airport in Ibadan and through the ceremonies at the OAU and the Ooni's palace, said he would be happy to host the governor and the Ooni in his country in 2009. He was accompanied by over 10 Yoruba Obas from Benin Republic who came in richly embroidered aso oke.

http://www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6582:benin-president-i-am-yoruba&catid=46:sunday-compass&Itemid=698

Beaf: I asked boko haram to translate this video and he staggered like an almajiri under the influence of tombo!

[flash=480,385]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3FIWNdQcTM&hl=en_GB&fs=1[/flash]

This is fon language not Egun for crying out loud this beaf sef. well I get ur time today

Beaf:

Do you mind these people?
Egun is closer to languages spoken in Ghana than anything in Nigeria. But the cretins are claiming that Ewe and Ga people too are Yoruba (against all advice and common sense).

Ewe,

the Ewe people originally came from Ketu, a Yoruba area in Benin

http://www.ceanaonline.org/sections/ewehistory.php

Wetin do una, you don tire

alj harem:
This is fon language not Egun for crying out loud this beaf sef. well I get ur time today

You are a fool. Fon and Egun are dialects of Gbe, They are the same phucking language and that language has no phucking thing to do with any Nigerian language.

You must be hungry, thats why stup!dity is pouring so freely from your soul. Go get some grass to eat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_DOiarnRPc&feature=related
this is Ewe for you and they call themselves as yoruboid heck they have Obas. I feel sorry

Beaf:

You are a fool. Fon and Egun are dialects of Gbe, They are the same phucking language and that language has no phucking thing to do with any Nigerian language.

You must be hungry, thats why stup!dity is pouring so freely from your soul. Go get some grass to eat.

Why are you angry, You are angry that I am Egun-Awori and I call myself Yoruba or what ? Is that what is annoying you ?

It is not a dialect of Gbe

This is the map of the areas where Gbe is spoken:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gbe_languages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfxvBsOLOIw

This is ewe and In as much as I cannot speak proper Ewe, I can pick up some words in it which I am even better that than I am in Ijebu. Fact

^
You are Ijebu now?
Perhaps we are witnessing the onset of madness here.

alj harem:

Why are you angry, You are angry that I am Egun-Awori and I call myself Yoruba or what ? Is that what is annoying you ?

It is not a dialect of Gbe

The thing that stands you out is the rate at which you lie like a fool:

The Gbe languages (pronounced [ɡbè])[1] form a cluster of about twenty related languages stretching across the area between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria. The total number of speakers of Gbe languages is between four and eight million. The most widely spoken Gbe language is Ewe (3 million speakers in Ghana and Togo), followed by Fon (1.7 million, mainly in Benin). The Gbe languages were traditionally placed in the Kwa branch of the Niger–Congo languages, but more recently have been classified as Volta–Niger. They include five major dialect clusters: Ewe, Fon, Aja, Gen (Mina), and Phla–Pherá.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gbe_languages

Just so you know, the Egun are Phla–Pherá.

Imperialist dunce.

Beaf:

Do you mind these people?
Egun is closer to languages spoken in Ghana than anything in Nigeria. But the cretins are claiming that Ewe and Ga people too are Yoruba (against all advice and common sense).

My brother, na wahalla come reach enter for that one. The Ga can be Yoruba, I don't know how true or false it is but the few Ga's I do know do claim Yoruba as their place of origin. But for Ewe, until I joined this site did I hear they descended from Yoruba. Every single Ewe I know speaks of other places as their place of origin, and not yoruba. This site was the first time I've heard that and I know Ashante/Akan, Fante-Fanti, Ewe/Tafi, Ga/Korobo, etc people. I like African history so learning(rather disturbing people to speak of their lol) places of origin is sort of a hobby for me depending if I like the group. I am not Ewe so I cannot speak on their behalf against claiming, it does not concern me anyway, but it's weird in a way. Nigerians do too much claim claim in my opinion.

As for the OP If they are not Yoruba, then they are not Yoruba.

People open too much waste of thread on this site

@Alj_harem
dude don't you get tired of claiming everything on the book

Today you are egun-Awori, yesterday Kanuri, the day before yesterday Igbo, before that iteskiri. Not only that, you have monikers claiming Igbo, Urhobo, Ikwerre, Ibibio, Iteskiri, Yoruba, etc

Dude don't you get tired @ all?

Na wa oo!!!.
You have to be getting paid to do this, that is the only explanation I can think of.

One Naira: My brother, na wahalla come reach enter for that one. The Ga can be Yoruba, I don't know how true or false it is but the few Ga's I do know do claim Yoruba as their place of origin. But for Ewe, until I joined this site did I hear they descended from Yoruba. Every single Ewe I know speaks of other places as their place of origin, and not yoruba. This site was the first time I've heard that and I know Ashante/Akan, Fante-Fanti, Ewe/Tafi, Ga/Korobo, etc people. I like African history so learning places of origin is sort of a hobby for me depending if I like the group. I am not Ewe so I cannot speak on their behalf against claiming, it does not concern me anyway, but it's weird in a way. Nigerians do too much claim claim in my opinion

I too have not seen any Ewe claims to have descended from Yoruba land; those claims are one sided and judging from the disparity in the languages, wholly farfetched.

Dude, please hang around the thread, your first hand knowledge would be quite useful and appreciated.

Beaf: ^
You are Ijebu now?
Perhaps we are witnessing the onset of madness here.



The thing that stands you out is the rate at which you lie like a fool:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gbe_languages

Just so you know, the Egun are Phla–Pherá.

Imperialist dunce.

LOL what an ideeiot

Dude you are not learning and I am trying my best to teach you and you still display your ignorance.

Okay here it is

what is yoruba, a group of nations called Anago or nago people

Now this Anago people are described by the french spoke the same language but warring against each other.

Now The Ewe people in Benin and Togo said they were yorubas and took up the Obaship. such as the Ana people in togo

Now not all yorubas like to be called yorubas even among ourselves some of us don't like it but again not all Nigerians liek to be called Nigerians such as the case of the Igbos

In benin republic, togo etc they rather refer to themselves as Anago or nago instead of yoruba. Ok !!! I hope you are following me

do you understand me ?

Now in Nigeria, we are known as yoruba but we know we are not yorubas but Ijebu, Ekiti etc

We awori-egun still denied being yorubas until it makes not sense again and moreover it is FARRRRRRRRR Better to be called yoruba than be in the same ethnicity as Beaf and co. We hate to be associated with daf.t people that don't see progress rather than tribal ranting. I hope you understand

And that is why it was just 5 years ago Itsekiri just accepted their Yorubaness. it is not "yorubas" fault but the tribalism in Nigeria by you IGBOS is too much and we have to go with the non-tribalistic ones and they are the Benin and yorubas.

Try harder next time