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ACM10:
I couldn't respond to to Alj_harem on this issue of yoruboid since I was using my phone then.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sl_dDVctycgC&pg=PA422&lpg=PA422&dq=Ayere-Ahan+yoruba&source=bl&ots=4X2Hb9-ed_&sig=UQT1-yAtYIdMM8os3pqTi8p6wUI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=isQtT7uPA8Wh8gP0qNSWDw&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Ayere-Ahan%20yoruba&f=false

As far as I'm concerned, yoruboid is a neologism.

[size=20pt]There is nothing like yoruboid, igboid, hausaoid, fulanoid, ijawoid etc[/size]

You crack me up by lumping Igala as part of yoruboid.

When i was growing up in Anambra, I could remember that news were broadcasted in both Igbo and Igala language.

Many people in Igboland can unerstand and speak Igala fluently and the cultural similarity between those two tribes is never in doubt.

That piece should be confined to the trash-bin

alj harem:
I don't intend to burst anything, all I did is join ekt-bear to laugh na

btw there are Igboid can you call it neologism

eg Ika, ekpere (no sure of the spelling) ngwa, onitsha, ezza(not sure of the spelling)

Yes or not ?

emmatok:
Sorry yoruboid exit.

All Yoruboid languages are tonal, with most of them having three level tones.


Igala is a language of the Yoruboid branch of the Volta–Niger language family, spoken by the Igala ethnic group of Nigeria. In 1989, an estimated 800,000 spoke Igala, primarily in Kogi State, Delta State and Edo State. Dialects include Ebu, Idah, Ankpa, Dekina, Ogugu, Ibaji, Ife. The Agatu, Idoma, and Bassa people use Igala for primary school. Igala is related to Yoruba. 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

alj harem:
+100 Hehehehehe

emmatok:
How many Yorubas understand IJEBU AND EGUN.

The Edo people are HETEROGENEOUS(MIX) [/b]that is why find lot of tribes among them e.g the word [b]BENIN is ISEKIRI [/b]and not EDO.

[b]Do you also ask why most Auchi people are Muslims.


Yoruboid is a group of languages composed of Igala, a language spoken in central Nigeria, and the Edekiri group, the members of which are spoken in a band across Togo, Benin and southwestern Nigeria. The name Yoruboid derives from its most widely spoken member, Yoruba, which has more than 20 million speakers. Another well-known Yoruboid language is Itsekiri (Nigeria, 600,00-800,000 speakers). The Yoruboid group is a branch of Defoid, which itself is a branch of the Benue–Congo subfamily of the Niger–Congo language family.
Igala is a key Yoruboid language, spoken by 1.8 million people in the Niger-Benue confluence of central Nigeria, it is excised from the main body of Yoruboid languages to the west by Ebirra and the Edo languages. [/b]Igala is closely related to both Yoruba and Itsekiri languages.
[b]All Yoruboid languages are tonal, with most of them having three level tones. Grammatically, they are isolating with a subject–object–verb basic word order.
The Itsekiri's are a riverine Yoruboid people who live in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. They maintain a distinct identity separate from other Yoruboid people. Their neighbours are the Urhobos, The Ijaws, and the Mahin Ilaje, a Yoruba clan.

Jayjey:
The summary of the long talk is that Edos are closer to the yorubas geographical, culturally, traditionally and otherwise. The history of the Benin empire cant be told without the mention of yoruba because the very first king of Benin was the son of Oduduwa.

stpat1:
Forget these Igbo guys with Low mental faculty, they are always eager to display their illiteracy and unintelligible ability.

stpat1:
Where does the jews relate to the Igbos again.

stpat1:
It still does not amaze me that it was an Igbo folk that opened this thread.
I do not mean to demean the amazing abilities of the igbos but sometimes they just makes u wonder if there are no schools but only markets in Igbo land from the way they argue pointlessly sometimes.
No offense meant

alj harem:
Make him enter dictionary

I am not lying though

tell me where u think I was lying

afam4eva:
@dayokanu
I guess all the Nigerians with english names are english people ba? There's a group called ekpeye in rivers state that speak and their people bear Igbo names. But that does not make them Igbos. How much more a selected few who bear Yoruba names in edo state.

alj harem:
Akoko people are [size=18pt]yorubiod[/size]

Bini people also

Uzen people (not sure of the spelling)

I can keep going

Odunnu:
[size=38pt]No vex o, how many your mama fit do?[/size]

see*noevil:
[size=14pt]GUYS YOU WOULD'T BELIEVE THIS BUT EVEN SUGAR HAS MORE VALUE, BY PRODUCTS AND BRINGS IN MORE MONEY THAN COCOA . I AM NOT TRYING TO SAY THE SOUTH WEST HAVEN'T PLAYED THEIR PART N NATION BUILDING BUT COCOA IS WAAAAAAAAY DOWN THERE WITH OTHER AVERAGE AGRICULTURAL CROPS . PALM OIL AND RUBBER HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE DOMINANT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT IN NIGERIA AND THE WORLD AT LARGE , PLEASE LETS NOT REWRITE HISTORY , THE YOUNGER GENERATION DESERVE TO KNOW THE TRUTH . PLEASE , I AM BEGGING PLEASE . [/size]

alj harem:
point where I have[size=20pt] ever[/size] called Igbos out specifically that they love money

alj harem:
I am talking about as far back as a year

alj harem:
can you point where I have said Igbos would do anything for money ?

In fact point where I have ever called Igbos out specifically that they love money

dude don't draw my attention to this thread

alj harem:
gbam, we have to have a kind off clinic for them so they can be rehabilitate to know money is not everything
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-547667.0.html

alj harem:
ok we know yorubas are sometime lazy people who would perfer to be a tout or beg if the job given to them is not good enough

unlike the igbos that would do anything for money

how do tend to tackle that

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-149827.32.html

oduasolja:
To the Editors:

… the 40 percent minority in Eastern Nigeria who did not want to be part of Biafra.

oduasolja:
The minority people within the East preferred to be free of Ibo domination by having states of their own.

oduasolja:
the Biafran leadership denied them the same right it claimed for itself vis-à-vis the rest of Nigeria, the right of self-determination and protection from victimization….

oduasolja:
Reports of Biafran terror and intimidation to ensure “support” from non-Ibo areas never reached the American public

oduasolja:
I have missionary reports of burnings of villages (as many as 400 homes at a time), mass graves (sixty men, women and children buried alive at Ndiya), and massacre of non-Ibo civilians by Biafran forces.

oduasolja:
An indication of the antipathy felt by “fellow Biafrans” toward Ibo overlordship before and especially during secession was the terrible killing of Ibos in non-Ibo areas once the Biafran army was forced to retreat. Ironically, it was the Federal army which protected Ibo civilians from reprisals of their non-Ibo neighbors once the army had gained control of the areas. But this was never reported.

oduasolja:
Port Harcourt in Ijaw territory

oduasolja:
Non-Ibos objected to secession because they feared being “second class citizens” in an Ibo-majority Biafra. Mr. Diamond’s article mutely confirms this objection. Ijaws, Efiks, Ibibios and other non-Ibos are as invisible in his reporting of Biafra as American blacks were in most reporting of the US until only recently….

Olodostein:
From my observation on and off this forum;

Why is it that Yorooba and Hausa's are the ones so adamant of "One Nigeria"?

I need HONEST answers.

frosbel:
And please tell me , what kind of English is 'You got to up your IQ'  , is that what they taught you at school   

http://www.fairlady.com/lifestyle/money-careers/up-your-financial-iq

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/twitter-hack-5-ways-to-up-your-visible-iq.html

http://10mag.com/hanmiris-rice-cake-up-your-iq/

~Bluetooth:
I guess they are there in preparation for oju-iku's burial.

frosbel:
All the IboIgbo armed robbers with their AK47s, M16s and RPGs should be able to handle the situation