Firstpage:


Just the way we gave you your own name. Igbo= people living in the bush.

Firstpage:


What's this emotional outburst all about?

You admit they migrated from Yorubaland and you are hyperventilating how they are not Yoruba again?

Are you normal at all?

GBTYO:


What does "Yoruba" mean in your yoruba tongue?

Oyoroba!

Yyeske:
Say what you know please, I'm not into rants.
Go ask people of Oyigbo(orinally Obigbo) and Ibusa(orinally Igbouzo) what the original name means, remember the first example is in Rivers state and the latter is in Delta state.

igbodefender:
Olukumi has their present homeland deep in Delta part of Igbo Land. Name any other place in Africa where it is spoken indigenously apart from Anaocha Local Government in the Igbo part of Delta State.

The other people that speak it are the descendants of the Olucumis that were taken to America during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Olucumi is an ancient Igbo Language.

0monnak0da:
You are very much into rants and ignoraant speech.

Igbo means slave or bush dweller and was ascribed to Igbos by Igalas

GBTYO:


Oyo and Oba is not the same thing as oyoroba

The etymology of Yoruba is derived from these two words oyo and oba which when combined mean nothing in your olukumi tongue but is a deragoratory term used to describe your people after their defeat at the hands of jihadist invaders.

Not only did they sack your border town of ilorin, your capital in Oyo Ile, killed your General(s), Oba and Princess but also forced all of you to congregrate in the biggest IDP camp ever created -Ibadan.

You see the same Hausa/Fulani are credited in creating Ibadan, because it is from their jihad that you Yorubas all ran and converged in what is today Ibadan - the only city to be founded as a refugee camp!

Yyeske:
Any intelligent mind would be happy I taught you something they've never bothered knowing, instead of you to be happy and thanking me, you are busy spoiling for an e-fight.
Just know that Igbo has a meaning in the Igbo language.

Thetruthsayer10:
lol u know get sense at all the op said the meaning of Yoruba comes from the combination of oyo and oba in Hausa way of speaking which means it still means oyo and king or basically oyo king in Hausa way of pronouncing it so how is it a mockery to Yoruba my osu friend?

Nonaira1:


I am an Anioma. I even have siblings, big sister, married into olukumni community therefore, I know my own people.

We do not have yoruba in aniomaland. You people need to have shame!!

Yyeske:
Any intelligent mind would be happy I taught you something they've never bothered knowing, instead of you to be happy and thanking me, you are busy spoiling for an e-fight.
Just know that Igbo has a meaning in the Igbo language.

0monnak0da:


Languages borrow words study . It is called etymology

The Word language in English has its origin in the Latin lingual which means tongue.

Igbo is a recent addition to the lexicon but the etymology is from outside.

You cannot deny the phenomenon of outside influence on Igbo language especially those with Non Igbo neighbours

We know for a faact that people never referred to themselves as Igbo people before colonization. Certaiinly true for Aros,Ngwa and many others including Ikwerre with some mutual linguistic intelligibility.

By the way it originally was OYIGBO to start with

Strikethem:
i is true o. I read it somewhere.

Yyeske:
Give me links and not hear say.
Ibusa and Oyigbo I gave as examples, the indigenes still pronounce those places with their original names even if it is written in the revised version after the war. Say what you know mr

rlauncher:


Land-grabbing instinct detected.

9jakool:

Hello, I see that you've crawled out of your little rat hole. Let me make some things clear so your little rat brain can stop looking for trouble.

Number 1: It's Olukumi, not Olukumin as the title of this thread suggests. I've even heard of other variations like Olukwumi, and even Lukumi, but never Olukumin.

Number 2: The word Yoruba existed long before Ilorin was ever sacked. The first documentation of "Yoruba" was not even by a Hausa but by a Songhai scholar in the 1500s. Ilorin was annexed some centuries later.

Number 3: There is no such thing as "Hausa/Fulani" dialect. Hausa and Fulfulde are completely separate languages on their own right.

Number 4: "Yoruba" is not a derogatory term in the so called "Hausa/Fulani" dialect nor was it ever used as a mockery term. It was simply a name for an ethnic group SW of the Niger River.

Number 5: There is nothing like "Oyoroba." You made that up in your rat brain. The term that Hausas use is "Yorubawa" which is just how they say Yoruba in their language.

Now that you've been educated, you can now crawl back to the hole you came from.

0monnak0da:

You are the one that needs to provide links to back your absurd assertions

Yyeske:
At least I've shown you three locations in Igboland with Igbo in their names and two other names of people, you can verify from them. I'm sure other Igbos on this platform can provide more but that can not be said of you.

0monnak0da:


Ijebu Igbo

Thetruthsayer10:
how far my osu friend whats the meaning of osu

0monnak0da:
It means bush and Igbo people are either bush dwellers or slaves

Firstpage:


You are the shameless fool. You said they migrated from Yorubaland and you are still confused as to whether they are Yorubas!

Can igbos in Lagos ever become Yoruba?

Thetruthsayer10:
really so people from Germany doesn’t refer to themselves as German well am honored to learn from ur vast knowledge about things

Yyeske:
Lol, meaning that part of Yorubaland is populated by the Igbo people so don't drag it with Ndigbo next time.
Meanwhile, I need just one name of place or person in Yorubaland with Yoruba as a prefix or suffix to the name.

Firstpage:


You are the shameless fool. You said they migrated from Yorubaland and you are still confused as to whether they are Yorubas!

Can igbos in Lagos ever become Yoruba?

Thetruthsayer10:
really so people from Germany doesn’t refer to themselves as German well am honored to learn from ur vast knowledge about things

0monnak0da:


You are twisting logiic name one place In America France Germany etc with such ? What you will find is that places are often name from outside as in Britannia by the Romans Al-Sud The South in Arabic (Sudan) Igbos (Slave or Bush people) by Igalas

That is how it works

Yyeske:
So Ijebu Igbo means slaves or bush dwellers, now I'm getting the drift.
Na you talk am o

Strikethem:
In ipob historian book, oyoruba exist. So many things existed in those pig history book. Na so one of the ipob said they are the first settlers in Ile Ife. That Yoruba people chased them away and they had to run to their present eastern part . Igbodefender, come and see o.