akunjohn:




You nailed it, sometimes ago around 1994 to 1996,I was posted to Idah for a road projects with my friends from Ibadan and before we left that place, we've mastered the language very well...they always call us omoyaji...
My colleagues even got married there.
The good old days

delpee:


Interesting! I'm surprised actually. I've been to Anambra and Enugu before and assumed they're full Igbo states. Thanks for enlightening me.

Our inlaws from Anambra claim Igbo ancestry with a traditional title attached to the family (Chief). Probably a mixed or acquired heritage based on your analysis.

macof:


Lmao. You don't know the guy and his madness on this forum?

RedboneSmith:


This Omoyaji sounds like Iyagi or Ayagi, which is used in parts of Northern Nigeria to mean 'a Yoruba person'. I think it originates from a Nupe exonym for the Yoruba people. In some parts of Anioma you may hear "Nyenji" used for a Yoruba person which originates from the same Nupe expression.

shortIGBOman:


The entire Anambra is IGALA ancestral State, half of Enugu is also Igala. Most of those wealthy people you see as Igbo are actually Igala. The IGALA in Anambra and Enugu are actually richer than the Igbo who live in those areas

The reason why the Igala embrace Igbo language is that, Igbo language is the language of trade in that Region. Just like Hausa is that language of trade in the North. Which forced other minorities in that region to speak Hausa.

Probz:


Igala? Rich? L.M.A.O., still.

shortIGBOman:


Emeka, e shock you abi?


Igala Amaka

RedboneSmith:


Surely, you know what this guy wrote is a load of crock.

Igala villages do exist in Anambra and Enugu, but they are a small collection of tiny villages in Anambra West and Ụzọ-Ụwani LGAs. They are so small and so invisible that many people in Anambra and Enugu don't even know they exist. And they are certainly not richer than the Igbo. If anything their areas are impoverished and inaccessible.

shortIGBOman:


Emeka, e shock you abi?


Igala Amaka

ariesbull:
it all end in online... The wailing end in online

ariesbull:
it all end in online... The wailing end in online

nogragra:
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You will find out sooner than later. You must be removed forcibly by but anahilated as people that must be devoted to death for all the evil you have thought other innocent people, from 419, kidnapping, penis exporting to China and now Unknown gun men who kill people for organ harvesting to sell to the highest bidder. Your evil will catch up with you and the fulani nonentities.

macof:


Lmao. You don't know the guy and his madness on this forum?

ariesbull:
so you can monopolize violence

nogragra:

You shall see when the time comes.

ariesbull:
we have been hearing this for years.... Bring it on let's burn it down

Christistruth00:



Wahala was originally a Hausa word Yorubas before used to say ijogbon which means Trouble

Ekealterego:
ah.
Today's Igala langauge is marginally intelligible with Yoruba.

They probably come from same proto-language.
Interestingly also, Igala and Benin seem to be the buffer zone or centre between Yoruba and Igbo.
They have an element of both.

eniade07:
I was talking with a colleague an igala man from Kogi state, I later discovered during our conversation that most of their igala words are almost similar to yoruba words. Interestingly, the man told me that they're closer to the south eastern part of the country than the south west.I came across below quotation from wikipedia

"The Yoruba culture was originally an oral tradition, and the majority of Yoruba people are native speakers of the Yoruba language. The number of speakers is roughly estimated at about 30 million in 2010. Yoruba is classified within the Edekiri languages, and together with the isolate Igala, form the Yoruboid group of languages within what we now have as West Africa. Igala and Yoruba have important historical and cultural relationships. The languages of the two ethnic groups bear such a close resemblance that researchers such as Forde (1951) and Westermann and Bryan (1952) regarded Igala as a dialect of Yoruba"

"Also Igáláà is a Yoruboid language. It is spoken by the Igala ethnic group of Nigeria. In 1989 an estimated 800,000 spoke Igala, primarily in Kogi State, though current day estimates estimate upwards of 2 million Igala speakers. Dialects include Idah, Imane, Ankpa, Dekina, Ogugu, Ibaji and Ife. The Igala is related to Yoruba with which it shares a previous common ancestor, it remains unclear when both language split, mutual intelligibility in modern times is only marginal, although the sound/tonal systems remain the same, akin to the relationship between the various daughter languages of the Romance or Slavic language families. The Idoma and Bassa people use Igala in primary schools. The Igala language, as well as Igala culture and tradition, has influenced other languages and cultures around the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers".