simdam500:


I wan take am pound yam i.e mortalmortar and pestle

tonychristopher:


confusion

They are same nne

Just like saying onicha and onitsha
Owere and owerri
Enugu and enugwu
ahaba and asaba
ukwuani and kwale

mirexxx:
wow! didn't know all these

Plus234:
Sport the different


Lion--agu
Tiger--odum
Leopard.. agụ owuru/agu ogbu

LovelyLilac:
Ok thanks. As for ukwuani and kwale, kwale is a town and they speak Ukwuani, but not all ukwuani people are from kwale. Kwale is not a dialect or language. I said Ibusa and Ibuzo aren't the same, based on people from that region that I encountered and their opinion. Thanks anyways

cheruv:

enyi..
this is how it goes for the felines
Lion - Odum
Leopard - Agu owuru
Tiger - Agu akara(marked/striped cat)
Cheetah - Agu oso (fast cat)

this is for standard Igbo though this doesn't render the various dialects useless

LovelyLilac:
Ok boss. When you cook your Otu and Amu soup finish, let me know.

bigfrancis21:


People often mistake egbe = hawk for 'kite'. While growing up I've always known 'egbe' to be the bird that preys on chicken when its mother is unwary and each time the bird swoops down and lifts a chick, people around would shout 'egbe e burula nwa okuko o'. In English, hawks are known to prey on chicks (poultry) and kites on insects. More correctly, 'egbe' = hawk.

francizy:


I guess you meant that you didn't know all, if you're an Igbo lady, you shoulder known a few..

bigfrancis21:


@bold...there's actually nothing like 'more igbo' terms. 'enya', 'enye' and 'anya' are merely dialect variations of the same word just as we have humour/humor, flavour/flavor, doughnut/donut, Anaemia/Anemia in British and American Englishes. 'Igbo' is a generic word used to refer to any bia-speaking group that speaks an Igboid dialect as first language. No clan speaks 'Igbo'. If everybody is to go individually, then you would have people speaking 'Owerri language' and not 'Igbo' (after all it is owerri language they are speaking and it is different from what you call 'Igbo' which is central Igbo made up from several Igbo dialects), 'Awka language', 'Nkanu language', 'Ohaozara language', 'Ngwa language', 'Idemili language', 'Onitsha language' etc. Among people who identify as Igbo, they recognize there are numerous Igbo dialects under the 'Igbo' umbrella, hence when they hear a speaker speak, they identify him/her as from 'Onicha', 'Owerri', 'Nnewi', 'Awka', or 'Etche' part of greater Igboland, same way for Ika or Ukwuani or Ikwerre. There is a difference between 'dialect' and 'language'. Dialects are merely variations of the same language. Meanwhile, two spoken speeches can be called languages (different from each other) when there is, at least, 95% incoherence between both speeches. Thus, French and English are 2 different languages but Nigerian English and Ghanaian English are merely dialects of the same language, English.

In the past, and till today, bia-speaking Igbo clans didn't and still don't have a colonialist mentality to colonize others and impose their language on others. Rather, as a community, family unit or village grew in numbers and expanded, some members left to uninhabited areas to establish themselves, carrying with them the parent dialect, which became modified in certain words with time, to create a different sub-dialect of the original one. Thus, any bia-speaking person today who speaks an Ibo dialect as first language is authentically Igbo. His forefather wasn't forced nor oppressed into speaking the language, but was born by birth into the language, which was in turn passed down generation to generation and to the modern-day speaker.

This is not to start a 'Ukwuani are Igbo vs Ukwuani not Igbo debate', but I thought I'd give you a linguistic view of the issue and why researchers and authors still continue to classify 'Ukwuani' as an Igbo dialect despite some Ukwuani refusing to acknowledge they speak an Igbo dialect and are under the 'Igbo' umbrella, by linguistic terms.

tonychristopher:


nna,

wa
hat is your take on this odum, agu , awulu quagmire?

i know that you dont find tigers in africa so how come we have name for such..what is then the name of kangaroo?

mirexxx:
I'm a Nigerian

tonychristopher:


onye ojoo

obu amu na otu na agu si kwa gi


mind you we have grades of otu


otu - 0 - 10 yrs
ohi - 10- 39 yrs
ikpu - 39 - 60 yrs
osho - 6- yrs and above


the best of the best is ikpu

juo okeipku

Radoillo:
If however Awulu is the same animal my people know as agu owulu, then it is the wolf.

speaktome:



Nwa ticha nkea toro gi "iche " is Parot

tonychristopher:


This is where the confusion lies...dear how can you say such, just go back read your submision again and know if their is logic in it.....

It is UKWUANI AND DUE TO THE SINGULAR FACT THAT THE WHITE COULDNT PRONOUNCE THE UKWUANI THE ANGLIZIED IT TO KWALE JUST THE SAME WAY THE WHITES COUNDNT PRONOUNCE ENUGWU THE CALLED IT ENUGU

IN ENGLISH THERE IS NOTHING LIKE gb, ch, kw,sh, etc...if you did english you will understand this IGBUZOR BUT OYIBO NO FIT CALL "GB" THEY SAID IBUSA AND THESE NAMES STUCK, WE AFRICAN SHOULD START CORRECTING THESE MISTAKES



Kwale is not a town, it is ukwuani that is a town in Ndokwa or ukwuani


there is nothing like kwale local government but we have Ukwuani Local Government Area


Pls try to grow up dear, ukwuani is not language but a dialect, you should do research before you talk in public. these names are misplelt names ny whites and it is left for us to correct it.



Ukwuani Local Government Area

Obiaruku is the headquarters of Ukwuani LGA which was carved out of the then Ndokwa West LGA on the 4th of December, 1996 and has an area of 2,016 square kilometres. Nine clans make up the LGA namely; Akoku, Amai, Ebedei, Eziokpor, Ezionum, Obiaruku, Umuebu, Umukwata and Umutu. Together they make up the ten wards of the LGA with a population of about 103,000 going by the 1991 census. The people practice gerontocracy, were the oldest man is installed the traditional ruler, designated Okpala-Uku.

The people are a mono linguistic group-the Ukwuanis (an Igbo dialect).

http://www.deltastate.com.ng/Local-Government/ukwuani-local-government.html

OgologoDimkpa:
Awka and environs calls it Agu Owulu

Radoillo:



I know. I'm from there.

LovelyLilac:
Ekwurum ya! Ekwurum na I mebiela. I macha ihe bu ikpu na ohu na out, wee n'aju m. Smh Nwokem, jide ka iji biko, onweghi nke na agum.

Plus234:


which town are u from ?

Radoillo:


Nna, Odum is lion, Agu is leopard. Awulu, I have never heard. Maybe it's a dialectical variation of NyaWNWURUede (fox).

We have already discussed this tiger issue on this thread.

If they want to keep arguing that our people had a word for tiger, then biko hapu ha.

Ishilove:
In Ukwuani language:

Chicken = Okuku

Duck = Odogume

Hawk= Ukoo

Antelope = Ngbada

Horse = Enyinye

Rat = Mbuka

Crab= Ngiga

Dog = Ekite

Cat = Buusu

Sheep = Aturu

Lion = Eduke

Monkey = Enwe

Snail = Inokpo

Snake = Ifu-ugboko

Grasshopper= Otiokpor

Lizard = Oganezhi

Wall Gecko = Ochu uno

Frog = Ewoh

Tortoise = Akpulosa (pronounced Akpurosa)

Black Ant = Akpisi

Mosquito = Enwu

Worm = Ndidi

Leopard= Agwu

Bat= Iba

House Fly = Egiji

Cricket = Ebuzu

Millipede = Ariri

Rabbit = Erunke

Owl = Ogbome (Aki)

Shrew = Nkapi (Mole-like rat that is known for its pungent smell.)

Plus234:
I still maintain that Agu is a Lion

Coldfeet:

thanks now I know.

speaktome:


Udo diri mkpuru obi gi

tonychristopher:


onye ojoo

obu amu na otu na agu si kwa gi


mind you we have grades of otu


otu - 0 - 10 yrs
ohi - 10- 39 yrs
ikpu - 39 - 60 yrs
osho - 6- yrs and above


the best of the best is ikpu

juo okeipku

Coldfeet:
Amem! Ma nke gi.