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^^ Thanks for apologizing to me. I really appreciate it.

bigfrancis21: I don't think Igbo dialects or any Igbo dialect for that matter will disappear. They will still remain. Rather, we can expect a dialect dilution, whereby virtually all Igbo dialects will be diluted with central Igbo in one form or the other. But a total disappearance will be unlikely, I think.

An Ogbono soup cooked without an Ogbono cannot be called an Ogbono soup. If more than 50% of a dialect is gone then it seizes to be that dialect. I also infered that the dialects will be swallowed living just a handful of words from the dialect. But hoping that the dialects remain the way it is presently is wishful thinking.

They say, experience is the best teacher. Look for their trouble and come back with the answer.

bigfrancis21: I'm totally in support of dialect preservation. It showcases the beauty and diversity of the Igbo language. A historian's count of Igbo dialects was over 800. I don't remember the man's name.

Modern Igbo-language musicians use more of central Igbo in their songs. The ilk of Osadebe, Morocco, and other great musicians sang purely in their native dialects. But the trend currently has changed. Sonny Bobo's Owerri songs employs substantial central Igbo, not exclusively Owerri. It is quite rare to find a purely Owerri native song. Flavour n'Abania from Anambra combines both Anambra + central Igbo. And so on. The modern trend nowadays has changed. And I fear that in some years' time, it will be hard to find musicians singing purely in their native dialects.

No matter how we look at it, languages and dialects will keep dissapearing because of globalization. I think our best bet is to document these dialects because we can't stop people from speaking Igbo Izugbe and as development spreads and people become intertwined like we're experiencing at the moment, dialects will keep shrinking and being swallowed or remixed to sound more central.

Fulaman198: One question, and I really respect Igbo people, I believe they are hard-working and very intelligent. However, I believe the preservation begins with you ladies and gentlemen.

Why is this thread in English?

We don't want to leave anyone out. Not everybody can write in Igbo.

Radoillo: The hard truth is that local dialects will continue to lose ground to the spoken standards that are emerging in the major cities of the east. That will happen whether or not we like it. The best that can be done is for scholars to properly document the dialects (on paper, electronically) before their eventual demise...

The price we have to pay for Igbo unity.

But how can anyone expect people who live in cities like Aba or Enugu to maintain the dialects of these places. These cities are cosmopolitan and are filled with Igbos from every length and breadth and Central Igbo tends to take pre-eminence in such places. What we should be striving for, is to maintain our villages and small towns because those are the places where our dialects can be preserved.

I like the way Cardiff are passing the ball around.

shokayz: gooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllll 5-1

Abeg, stop lying.

This Kelechi guy is coming to take Ideye's spot. There's still time before the world cup.

When i first looked at the title of this thread, the thread starter and some of the handles behind some comments, that's when i knew that this was one of those threads inspired by idleness and preserved by ignorance.

First and foremost, the King of Igbodo must not marry someone from outside Igbodo, despite being in Agbor which is also in Ika. This has nothing to do with the wife of the King being Igbo or Hausa. So, the attempt by some ignorant people on this thread to credit such an action to the Un-Igboness of Ika can be best described as petty. I can even see some people on this thread ganging up with people who have defiled their ethnic group to laugh at their own heritage. That's the height of efulefusim.

I also find it strange that Solomon11 who has been a proud Ika son can be called an impostor by people who we're not even sure are from Ika in the first place. To a lot of people, when someone dissociates Ika from Igbo then he is an authentic Ika and when he doesn't, he's an impostor.

Ika, just like some other parts of Delta and Rivers state have an identity criris and while some of them deny their Igboness due to the influence of the Bini empire, others embrace their Igboness and this could be seen when they attended the Igbo day in Asaba last year and they didn't attend the event under duress.

Nsofor did not play in the first leg but as a member of the team, he's as entitled to the victory as those that played.

Lol@Nsofor, a fringe player. This world is wicked walahi

0monnakoda: Na wa O

There's a difference between where it belongs and where it deserves to be. It's not a contradiction

The title sounds as though it's the man eating the snake that was killed as opposed to the snake itself.

adaobi123: Cover your eyes

I was actually WOWing at your comment directly above mine

Lol Culture is gradually being eroded. In the past who dares even go near a masquerade? That lady should be running away from the masquerade and not taking pictures with it. Very soon people will start taking pictures with Amadioha. Twa.

Yeah, he was. He actually became so slim because the mosquitoes in Nigeria sucked him dry...I wish we had won the final of that competition though.

Imanuelle: thanks

Abeg, don't forget me if you do get the link.

Click like if you think Cardiff will win.

KenGali: Thank you very much!

You could also try and modify the title and content just a bit to make it look more political.

KenGali: Are you really serious,LOL

you did not see any reference to ministry of aviation cars and the real prices of the cars, as well a claims by Dino Melaya, to which some people have already replied. Am surprised at you Afam. LOL
Ok, you guys leave it there till you change your minds. I know how to get my message accross. This issue is now dead.

I actually think the topic deserves to be in the political section but i think it was moved because of the title of the tread. Anyways, let me hustle to get it back.

Cardiff has done well this season and i think they'll continue their bright performance by beating a depleted chelsea side. I give it to the Welsh team, Cardiff.

WOW

Imanuelle: Remember the drug store in season two was almost done with
and there are other groups out there grabbing all they can get

even the baby store in season 3 where meryl nabbed Jackie Chan and his girlfriend was almost empty

Those stores were the one closest to the prison where they were. I guess they branched out and found new stores that have not been ransacked.

Psquare remain the biggest in Africa cos they command the largest crowd.

KenGali: Mods kindly move my topic https://www.nairaland.com/1484333/dino-melaya-lies-used-bmw
back to politics section where it belongs.
Moving it to Car Talk is not only malicious but unprofessional and unbecoming of a media outfit.
If any Mod is loosing an argument, why not argue it out rather than resorting to backhand tactice. LOL

I actually think it belongs to the car section cos the thread talks more about the car brand(BMW) and the cost and has little political content.

Imanuelle: Wait a minute

are they still looting for foodstuffs ?


Is the city not empty already?

The stores can never run dry for a long time because most people are now walkers and only the few that are alive are left to eat the goodies.

37 goals is actually an abysmal record according to world standard and even an average striker can break that record in a few years. The reason why our strikers don't score much goals is due to the limited number of matches at their disposal.

Clemzy16: How can B.R.T buses be in lagos?! Is it not suppose to be called something else in abuja. . .

Everywhere that i've travelled, Meatpie is called Meatpie.

Ms_Steph: sometimes i enter BRT buses in abuja i notice strange and odd things some are soo annoying i dont know if you notice it too.
1) guys trying to rub their "thing" on a woman's backside: this happened to me like 4times in the evening i was at the back of a guy and he was coming too close to me if d bus just stop he will hit me or use his hand to rub me on my back. after giving him a good slap he knew whats up.

I was actually the guy you slapped in the bus. I want to use this opportunity to apologize to you.

As a matter of fact, i think what's spoken by a lot of Igbos as central Igbo is actually similar to the Onitsha dialect. Igbo Izugbe is mostly used in writing and in the academia than speaking.