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Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by chyz(m): 7:00am On Sep 12, 2010 |
tpiah: Are you yourself yoruba? and if you are then why are you yoruba? Yes i did say my friend is from akoko edo and he's yoruba so what? prove me wrong! if you think yoruba only extends from Ogun,Oyo, Ondo,Ekiti, Lagos, Osun,and Kwara u are the biggest fool alive. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by tpiah: 7:07am On Sep 12, 2010 |
and why are you busting your knickers over who is or isnt yoruba? akoko edo is not yoruba. END OF. They are Edo, you this clown. tell your friend that's what they told you on nairaland. hiss. if your friend has a yoruba father from somewhere outside akoko edo then he can say he's yoruba. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by chyz(m): 7:09am On Sep 12, 2010 |
tpiah: Are you yoruba? |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by tpiah: 7:10am On Sep 12, 2010 |
ask me one more time and you'll get an answer. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by chyz(m): 7:11am On Sep 12, 2010 |
tpiah: Yes or no? |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by tpiah: 7:16am On Sep 12, 2010 |
I am akoko edo. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by chyz(m): 7:17am On Sep 12, 2010 |
tpiah: Good. nuff sed. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by AndreUweh(m): 11:39am On Sep 12, 2010 |
@Chyz: There is Akoko in Ondo state. They are Yorubas. Do not mistake it for Akoko Edo in Edo state. Have a nice Sunday. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by Obiagu1(m): 3:02pm On Sep 12, 2010 |
Is ezeagu not the same guy that was arguing that Nigeria has 250+ languagues and Isoko is not Urhobo. You must be clueless. ezeagu: 1 Like |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by AndreUweh(m): 3:18pm On Sep 12, 2010 |
Egun language is not in that list. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by ChinenyeN(m): 3:25pm On Sep 12, 2010 |
Obiagu1, that quote is about ethnicity, and so was the topic you derived the quote from. It wasn't about mode of speech. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by ezeagu(m): 4:44pm On Sep 12, 2010 |
Andre Uweh: The website I got the information from says that it is spoken in Afikpo LGA and they got their sources from published books on Nigerian languages. ChinenyeN: I agree, but if you want to talk about distinct languages then the list plus any smaller ones missing is the count of distinct Nigerian languages. Obiagu1: Ethnicity isn't the same as language, which is why a Jamaican isn't considered English and the Nigerian groups abandoning their languages for Hausa aren't considered Hausa. I even said: "I was thinking of grouping Isekiri with Yoruba, if not for ethnic politics." Doe anyone know if there is an actual Igbonna dialect of Yoruba, or maybe it's a misspelling of Igbo mina? |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by excanny: 5:01pm On Sep 12, 2010 |
Urhobo and Isoko are mutually unintelligible, but have similar sound patterns and shared words. I have 2 colleagues at work who are fluent speakers of Isoko and Urhobo respectively, i asked them and they said they cannot understand each other. They only communicate in English. 1 Like |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by excanny: 5:10pm On Sep 12, 2010 |
tpiah: Then why are you always on Yoruba matters as if it were your ethnicity. Or are you also having an identity crisis? |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by EzeUche22(m): 6:45pm On Sep 12, 2010 |
I love cultural threads! So much to learn. I am busy reading through all these threads. It is so much we do not know about African languages. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by Pukkah: 8:07pm On Sep 12, 2010 |
ezeagu: Igbomina (or Igbonna) is a Yoruba dialect. Its speakers are indigenous to the present Kwara State (e.g. Oro, Arandun, Esie, etc) and parts of Osun state (Ila). The dialect is understood across Yorubaland. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by Pukkah: 8:15pm On Sep 12, 2010 |
Andre Uweh: Oyo, Ekiti ,Ijesa, Ijebu, Egba, Igbomina dialects, though different, are mutually intelligible and the speakers, especially when they speak slowly, can understand themselves. However, there are instances when they use different words or terms for the same thing. The one I am not sure of is Owo dialect because it is not understood across Yorubaland. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by chyz(m): 9:06pm On Sep 12, 2010 |
Andre Uweh: Im talking about Akoko Edo. There are people there called the Igarras, they are close proximity to the yorubas. They are a small tribe that most likely be consumed by the yoruba. The speak yoruba, name their children yoruba names, even the culture is so interwined with yoruba. Alot of them are of yoruba stock apart from the Igarra tribe. I know people who are Igarra.Go to a Igarra house hold during a gathering and u will hear nothing but yoruba being spoken with a few igarra words here and there. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by tpiah: 11:15pm On Sep 12, 2010 |
^^ you no dey hear word? Igarra - The History of the Name http://www.igarra.com/ which yoruba were they speaking? Shows you yourself speak no yoruba at all. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by tpiah: 11:16pm On Sep 12, 2010 |
excanny: yes i am. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by chyz(m): 11:52pm On Sep 12, 2010 |
tpiah: Next time learn how to read first then talk. Also you are not Igarra neither do you have personal links to them as i do so shut your mouth.
http://igarratown.com/background.htm |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by excanny: 12:29am On Sep 13, 2010 |
^^^^ Interesting! i use to think that Igalas were found only in kogi state. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by tpiah: 3:36am On Sep 13, 2010 |
chyz: abegi!!! many languages share some similarities with yoruba- that doesnt make them yoruba. most of the languages of old bendel state have heavy derivatives from other groups. read this and stop claiming allsorts: http://books.google.com/books?id=c8J95e9DspMC&pg=PA71&dq=akoko+edo&hl=en&ei=W4yNTLyrB8OB8gbK9_WWCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=akoko%20edo&f=false igarra is an ebiroid language. Ebira is related to igala which itself has similarities with yoruba. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by chyz(m): 3:39am On Sep 13, 2010 |
tpiah: U are arguing something totally different now.stick to the matter at hand that you tried to argue at first. Ive back up wat i sed and proved you wrong so thats the end of it. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by tpiah: 4:09am On Sep 13, 2010 |
^^maybe my explanation is too complicated for you. 1. akoko edos say they're edo, not yoruba yorubas say akoko edo isnt yoruba. chyz says akoko edo is yoruba because he heard an occasional yoruba word here and there when he visited them. soooooo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. itsekiri say they're not yoruba yorubas say itsekiri arent yoruba chyz says itsekiri are yoruba. **crickets** |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by EzeUche22(m): 5:20am On Sep 13, 2010 |
Itsekiri are Yoruba. Do not deny them. There language resembles the Yoruba language in many ways. Can it not be said that it is a dialect. There are dialects of English that cannot be understood you know by other English speakers. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by ChinenyeN(m): 7:05am On Sep 13, 2010 |
EzeUche22:That doesn't make the people Yoruba. Mode of speech is not the same thing as ethnicity. ezeagu:Oh okay. Well, I understand where you're coming from, and I largely agree. I guess my only concern is just semantics, then. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by chyz(m): 7:21am On Sep 13, 2010 |
ChinenyeN: they speak a dialect of the yoruba language. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by chyz(m): 8:00am On Sep 13, 2010 |
Wow so kukele of the "Ukelle people" is a dialect of the igbo language. I learn something new everyday.I just found a recording of the language.The even use the old Aro name for god, "Ukpabi". Check this out: http://globalrecordings.net/program/C10171 They've really tried hard to separate us |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by chyz(m): 8:48am On Sep 13, 2010 |
Should this be classiffied as Bonny-Ijaw, Bonny-Igbo, neither? All my Igbo and Ijaw speakers,what do u think? http://globalrecordings.net/program/C07211 |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by ChinenyeN(m): 12:21pm On Sep 13, 2010 |
chyz:Doesn't make any difference. Their lect being grouped into a broader linguistic classification says little about the people's ethnicity. chyz:Ijo linguistic classification. No question about that. chyz:Reminds me of the Izii recordings. |
Re: The Truth About The Number Of Nigerian Languages by Obiagu1(m): 2:03pm On Sep 13, 2010 |
chyz: That should be Ijaw. They don't have recording in Bonny Igbo available at that site yet. |
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