genieluv:


All anioma people, Ika, ndokwa and Enuani usually have identity issues and this is something i will not deny. Some of us accept being igbos, many others reject it and some really do not care or are are confused/in between (like me, LoL).
The only difference is that you have more igbo denials in the Ika and Ndokwa axis than in the Anochia/Oshimili axis.

suwalee:
see go to any ika person and speak the normal igbo language my dear they don't understand it I'm telling u

suwalee:
I'm in denial ere I refuse to be igbo cos the ika I speak aint close to d igbo I hear

Uniben4sure:
The reason is simply because they have coexisted with other tribes in Edo and delta for long and pidgin has been the major language of interaction with those tribes.
Do you know that I understand ika better than I do understand some dialects in abakaliki and even some parts of Enugu? The beauty of Igbo language is that no matter how you twist it, a true son of the soil will understand.

genieluv:


LoL, but i think many igbos will understand you when you speak. I have seen igbos who understand our Anioma dialects very well.
Also, before i used to think all igbos speak the same until i realized that even the igbos themselves, some of them do not understand each other unless they speak the centra igbo dialect.
What part of Ika are you from? Abavo, Owa, Agbor, Umunde?

suwalee:
its like nigeria we had our language before d british came to colonize us..... that's d only way I can relate the ika tribe.they are benin until d igbos came with their influence nd all

Uniben4sure:
You are very wrong! It was the old Bini empire, in their conquest that colonized ikaland. Read about Bini kingdom and their expansionist drive in those days and you will understand.

How can the Bini empire, with their might in those days, lose their land up to igbanke to the Igbo's? Or how could they have lost their language and culture to the Igbo's, if they were the original inhabitants of ikaland?

suwalee:
see go to any ika person and speak the normal igbo language my dear they don't understand it I'm telling u

genieluv:


No, my community is quite close to ikas. The average ika will understand central Ibo but he cannot reply unless he has lived with other Ibo speakers for a longtime. Same thing with we anochias their neighbours. We understand Anambra igbo dialect but we may not be able to reply them, although some can reply. It just depends on the person involved to an extent.
My first boyfriend was an Ika man and he can kill because of Igbo identity which he believes he is Igbo and he can reply central Ibo dialect too. So it varies.

Uniben4sure:
You are very wrong! It was the old Bini empire, in their conquest that colonized ikaland. Read about Bini kingdom and their expansionist drive in those days and you will understand.

How can the Bini empire, with their might in those days, lose their land up to igbanke to the Igbo's? Or how could they have lost their language and culture to the Igbo's, if they were the original inhabitants of ikaland?

somegirl1:


Which dialect do you refer to as the "normal" Igbo language?

genieluv:
From my own perspective i don't think it would be impossible or wrong for we Anioma, Ikwerre and other Igboid groups in the South-South to unite with the south-east igbos, just that it could be done with a new independent association with another name but not the name IGBO.
Most South-south ibo speaking tribes see igbos as relatives but i don't think all our people will ever fully accept to adress themselves as IGBOS.

genieluv:


LoL, but i think many igbos will understand you when you speak. I have seen igbos who understand our Anioma dialects very well.
Also, before i used to think all igbos speak the same until i realized that even the igbos themselves, some of them do not understand each other unless they speak the centra igbo dialect.
What part of Ika are you from? Abavo, Owa, Agbor, Umunde?

chukzyblingz:
Any Ika person will understand what she's trying to say. By normal Igbo, she's not only talking about central Igbo but all the Igbo dialects in the South East?

genieluv:


LoL, but i think many igbos will understand you when you speak. I have seen igbos who understand our Anioma dialects very well.
Also, before i used to think all igbos speak the same until i realized that even the igbos themselves, some of them do not understand each other unless they speak the centra igbo dialect.
What part of Ika are you from? Abavo, Owa, Agbor, Umunde?

Uniben4sure:
The reason is simply because they have coexisted with other tribes in Edo and delta for long and pidgin has been the major language of interaction with those tribes.
Do you know that I understand ika better than I do understand some dialects in abakaliki and even some parts of Enugu? The beauty of Igbo language is that no matter how you twist it, a true son of the soil will understand.

Uniben4sure:
The reason is simply because they have coexisted with other tribes in Edo and delta for long and pidgin has been the major language of interaction with those tribes.
Do you know that I understand ika better than I do understand some dialects in abakaliki and even some parts of Enugu? The beauty of Igbo language is that no matter how you twist it, a true son of the soil will understand.

chukzyblingz:
Ika language has been igbonized to a high extent. There are hundreds of Bini/Ika words that has been replaced by Igbo words . Agbontaen used to do a tedious job listing and correcting these words. What you hear people speak now is not the same way my language was spoken two decades ago. And I can imagine what it is century ago. Language changes. Some go into and replaced by another language. Some old men speak the real Ika but some old people are also guilty of this Igbonization.

You also know that your Aniocha is closer to Igbo than Ika? We understand Aniocha because there are many Ika words in Aniocha language. But different intonation. But with an Intonation an Intonation an average Ika person would regard as being close to the 'normal' Igbo. But we also know the difference.And... I said Ika words because even Aniocha was called Ika during the colonial era.

The truth is, Aniocha is closer to Igboland and you have more Igbo influence than we do but we are all Aniomas and we love ourselves because despite the differences, we have too many things in common.

genieluv:


It seems like my comment really pissed you off. LoL. This is an example of what am talking of. Anger issues at the slightest offence. Many of you are like this. [s] You guys boast a lot and are very pompous, very proud, very arrogant, temperamental, domineering and extremely intolerant unlike our people. [/s] [s] Money is worshipped in most south eastern societies against core human values. [/s] Am sorry if i sound too indiscreet but that is just what i have observed.
My friend, it's not just about what our parents tell us, it's about what we experience ourselves, we are not dummies, we interract with Igbos on daily basis and we even intermarry and date each other. The only group of south-east people i think are like we Aniomas are Nsukka and Onitsha peeeps, but Anambra, Imo and Abia are a no no.

ehikwe22:
WHAT A SENSELESS POST. NON OF THOSE NAMES MENTIONED THERE IS AN IKA NAME. DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT IGBANKE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN IKA AN IGBO NAME? ANOTHER FABRICATED POST. SMH!!!

Chiwude:
You're right bro. The Igbo language is like a big umbrella accomodating all Igbo groups in every area and clime. An Ika man for instance does'nt need to understand Igbo Izugbe before he tells what an Nnewi man is saying, so fort and so on. I for instance understand Ika, Ukwuani and Ikwerre no matter how much the speaker try to twist the phonetics. Most to the dismay of my Owa friend who kept asking me whether I usually eavesdrop on his family whenever they speak their Ika in close doors.

suwalee:
I'm in denial ere I refuse to be igbo cos the ika I speak aint close to d igbo I hear

chukzyblingz:
the average Ika man doesn't understand Igbo language properly. I have some nephews in their early 20s that don't understand Igbo if it's spoken fastly except you pick it word for word. An average Ika man only understand some Igbos. There are many Igbo words I only knew the meaning recently because I asked some Igbo friends. Any Ika man you see replying in central Igbo must have learnt it from outside Ika land.

suwalee:
spot on!!!! Likewise The ppl of igbanke. The migration of igbo ppl into their land caused the whole ish. My father told me that wen he was growin up they basically spoke bini until some migrants(igbos) who came to d community to teach and trade.

Neemrod:

Did u really type this poo?
You anioma, ikwerre and what have you can call yourselves whatever suits you. The name igbo will never be changed for any person or group. I hope this sticks.

bigfrancis21:


With this honest admission of yours, do you now see that there is no 'Igbo' language and that all sub clans under the Igbo umbrella just speak dialectical variations of the same language all brought together under the name, Igbo? And that also central Igbo isn't spoken natively by any Igbo clan but was created for ease of communication between Igbo clans that speak nearly unintelligible dialects?

chukzyblingz:
Ika language has been igbonized to a high extent. There are hundreds of Bini/Ika words that has been replaced by Igbo words . Agbontaen used to do a tedious job listing and correcting these words. What you hear people speak now is not the same way my language was spoken two decades ago. And I can imagine what it is century ago. Language changes. Some go into and replaced by another language. Some old men speak the real Ika but some old people are also guilty of this Igbonization.

You also know that your Aniocha is closer to Igbo than Ika? We understand Aniocha because there are many Ika words in Aniocha language. But different intonation. But with an Intonation an Intonation an average Ika person would regard as being close to the 'normal' Igbo. But we also know the difference.And... I said Ika words because even Aniocha was called Ika during the colonial era.

The truth is, Aniocha is closer to Igboland and you have more Igbo influence than we do but we are all Aniomas and we love ourselves because despite the differences, we have too many things in common.

genieluv:


It seems like my comment really pissed you off. LoL. This is an example of what am talking of. Anger issues at the slightest offence. Many of you are like this. You guys boast a lot and are very pompous, very proud, very arrogant, temperamental, domineering and extremely intolerant unlike our people. Money is worshipped in most south eastern societies against core human values. Am sorry if i sound too indiscreet but that is just what i have observed.
My friend, it's not just about what our parents tell us, it's about what we experience ourselves, we are not dummies, we interract with Igbos on daily basis and we even intermarry and date each other. The only group of south-east people i think are like we Aniomas are Nsukka and Onitsha peeeps, but Anambra, Imo and Abia are a no no.

suwalee:
I'm from igbanke

genieluv:


All aniomas are in this together and not only Ikas.
We enuanis do not understand central Ibo 100% too, but we can pick it to a large extent especially the Anambra dialect which is closer to ours.

Which part of Ika are u from?

genieluv:


Yes, but the thing is that the central Ibo which was created did not get to Anioma land, so it has not been part of us and this is one reason many of us don't see ourselves as Igbos. The linguistic unity is not there.

I lived some years of my life in the north. Many of us don't know that real Hausas have only about 5 states in the north, the rest northern states are minority tribes but what has united them all these decades is the general hausa lingua franca.

SlayerSupreme:

Pissed who off? Oh come off it.


Pompous,proud,arrogant = same thing. Same three words for a single people. Okay. Temperamental = nonsense. Intolerant = bullshit. Domineering,here you just scratched it. So that whole paragraph was nonsense.


On the other paragraph,the money we make is through unflinching doggedness with a touch of clever albeit some of the youth go into crime(nothing peculiar to the Igbo tribe) but then you are hugely biased and anti-Igbo and cannot see anything good about the Igbo people. You only had negatives to share about the Igbo and nothing else. It's all good,I know people worse than. But then for calling us money worshippers,may that money continue to evade you. iseeee! Good day.