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davodyguy:
A sign that Pitobi no se win Election next year

E go shock u, Obidient guys may not have Elswag time. But for general election, just give it to Obi.

Cypress042:
Poor votes.

Elo swag the obidient guy is certainly winning this dumb show.

From today result, if Eloswag is up for eviction next week, he would go home, I was shocked to see the low votes he got.

Where are the Obidient guys? They didn't vote for Eloswag?

I wouldn't blame this nonsense comment from this man, I blame the Yorubas, that are always the willing tools in their hands.

Ezewuzie01:
Looks like friday mosque gathering he is trying to claim as his supporters. My northern friend told me that nobody knows Datti even in Zaria where he supposedly hails from.

Iam in Kaduna, he won Kaduna north senate against the like of Ahmed markafi a former governor, and u said they don't know him in Zaria?

Staphylococcus:
The crowd is not even bigger than Ned Nwoko’s family!

Datti is a political toddler who cannot even win the polling unit inside his university.

I don’t know why people cannot be realistic! His Excellence, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a political force that mere political minions like Obi and Datti cannot derail.


Even if elections were to be conducted on Earth, In Heaven, and hell inclusive, Peter Obi and Datti do not stand a chance of winning in any of the realms.


Even my humble highly esteemed self will win Peter Obi in a national election, how much more against the political Albert Einstein- His Excellence, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

U talk too much, are u high on cheap weed?

From the rank on his chest, it is the rank of a Major, not a Major General. By the way, now begins his rest. The killers would never know rest.

Jennyclay:
I told him to subscribe to my dstv, and he started narrating how consumers came to store and bought goods on credit since 1900.. You can imagine, for just 15k dstv subscription.

I just blocked without wasting time. I have nothing to do with broke men.

If u and ur father are not broke, why are u asking someone to pay for ur tv viewing? Poor with pride.

scholes0:
@OP look at it this way, the closeness btw the aboriginal Igalas (Akpoto) & Yoruba is ancestral. A result of both groups descending from the same ancestors in deep prehistory that is soo old that nobody recorded it. The relationship between Igala & Igbo you friend talks about is as a result of geographical closeness/inter-relationship along border areas & some culture rubbing off each other. There r even igalas in today's SE. So actually, depending on the Igala u ask, there are varying degrees of closeness with neighbors. Some Igalas will tell u they r closest to Agatu/Idoma, some will tell u it is Bassa-Nge/Nupe. These are all location induced relatedness.

Igala looks like heavily modified archaic Yoruba.

Many of the words are the same. For those that are not exactly the same, I observed the following changes/modifications.

1) I noticed keenly that they have evolved to replace nasal vowel (Añ, Eñ, Iñ, Oñ, Uñ Etc) endings in Yoruba with their open oral vowel equivalents.
Because Yoruba has 7 oral and 7 nasal vowels... but seems Igala has only oral ones.

* And also some consonant mutation in Igala , i.e (R to L), (L to N), (J to Bÿ), (S to R/L) etc....
Here are some RULES:

Rule A*: Nasal vowel ending words in Yoruba to open vowel ending in Igala. Middle diphthong eliminated when present
Jeuñ (eat) - Jeñwu
Igbiñ (snail) - Igbi
Ohuñ (thing) - Eñwu
Eyiñ (tooth) - Eñyi
Ọkuñ (illipede) - Ọkọ
Eguñ (ancestors) - Egwu
Oguñ (medicine) - Ogwu
Fuñfuñ (white) - Fufu
Fañ (blow) - Fa
Agañ (barren) - Aga
Kañ (sour) - Ka
Okañ (one) - Oka
Oduñ (year) - Odo
Agbañ (chin) - Agba
Ouñ (he/she/it) - Oñwu
Ofuñ (throat) - Ofa
Oyañ (breats) - Eñya
Idiñ (maggot) - Ide
Ekuñ (leopard) - Eko
Tituñ (new) - Tito

Rule B* Consonant mutation R to L and vice versa
Kekere (small) - Kekele
Irawo (star) - Ilawo
Iri (dew/mist) - eli
Olu (lord) - Onu
Ro (cultivate) - Lo
Olamide (name) - Uramide
Iru (seed) - ilu
Akere (toad) - Akele
Ra (buy) - La
Erira (ants) - Elila
Ri (see) - Li
Ora (fat) - Ula
Oruñgbe (thirst) - Olugbe

Rule C* Consonant mutation S to R/L
Ese (leg) - Ere
Eso (fruit) - Ero
Se (block) - Re
Sø (throw) - Rø

Rule D* Consonant mutation S and SH to CH
It seems like the “Sh” sound in absent in some Igala dialects , and they replace with a 'CH'... These dialects that lack the the SH sound seem to have become the standard for the whole of Igala.

Sheyi (done this) - Cheyi
Oshu (moon) - Ochu
Ishu (yam) - Uchu
Ashe (authority) - Ache
Isha (pot) - Ucha
Shu (defecate) - Chu

Rule E* Consonant mutation J to BŸ
Aja (dog) - Abya
Eje (seven) - Ebye
Ẹjɛ (blood) - Ẹbyɛ

Rule F* Consonant mutation W to GW just like in the South-Eastern Yorubaland dialects
Ewa (beans) - Egwa
Ku (die) - Kwu
Gun (pound) - Gwu
Ekun (cry) - Ekwu
Oogun (sweat) - Uugwu
Wɛ (wash/bath) - Gwɛ

Rule G*: Consonant mutation L to N
Oluku (friend) - Onukwu
Ile/Ale (land) - Ane
Ale (night) - Ane
Ala (dream) - Ona
Ola (tomorrow) - Ona

Rule A* + B*
Eriñ (four)- Ele
Oruñ (neck) - Olu
Iruñ (hair) - Ilo
Aruñ (five) - Alu
Oruñ (sun) - Olu
Eruru (ashes) - Elulu

Rule A* + C*
Esañ (nine) - Ela
Suñ (sleep) - Lu

Rule A* +D*
Eshiñshiñ (housefly) - Achichi

Rule A* + F*
Egunguñ (bone) - Ogwugwu
Iguñnu (vulture) - Ugwunu
Oguñ (twenty) - Ogwu

Rule A* +G*
Olokuñriñ (man) - Onokele
Olobiñriń (woman) - Onobule

Rule B* + C*
Sure (run/hasten) - Rule

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Other Minor differencess with irregular rules
Bayii (like this) - Abayii
Øbɛ (soup) - Øbø
Owo/Ogho (money) - Oko
Wo/Gho (look) - Go
Ijo (dance) - Ido
Monamona (lightening) - Omamañya
Oru (midnight) - Odu
Iwowo (nudity) - Owowo
Eru (slave) -Adu
Ehoro (rabbit) - Efolo
Adiye (hen) - Ajuwe
Akuko (coc.k) - Ayiko

And finally,False friend cognates
Yo in Yoruba = Fully fed
Yo in Igala = Plump / Fat

Du in Yoruba - To contest an object
Du in Igala - To take an object

Oyuñ in Yoruba = Pregnancy
Oyu in Igala = Fat

Ebo in Yoruba - Sacrifice
Ebo in Igala - Deity

Edø in Yoruba = Liver
Edø in Igala = Heart/Chest

Wewe in Yoruba = Pieces
Uwewe in igala = Many

ilɛ in Yoruba = Earth (as in land)
ilɛ in Igala = Earth (as in the planet)


There are many countless words that are exactly the same in both languages and need no further elucidation, since we are focusing more on what has made the two languages different over time.
That being said, there are many other words too that are very different... Hence the reason why Igala shares approximately only about 64% or so word cognates with the General Yoruba we speak. The 40% that do not align between both is already enough to make inter-comprehension between both very hard... The biggest chunk of non Yoruboid words in Igala is from the neighbouring Idoma according to some research.

With this, I would give a Yoruba - give or take 6 months to master this language under complete exposure like going to live in Idah or Dekina.

Yoruba is Igala Pro Max. Once you master the grammatical rule of thumb in the formula required to convert from one dialect gloss to the other gloss ... you will master the language sharply.

Wow! I am Igala, surprised to see we have so many similarities with the Yorubas. Thanks, I learn a lot today.

tonicyril:
Read what u posted again and see if ur brain is really updated or not.

Dont u see that na ibo people full this labour party of a tin?? U re hailing this one not because u know he's that good, but cause he's contesting under the aegis of labour party which is the party of ur preferred presidential candidate
During ambode era, peter obi, Ur candidate was stil in pdp and u are stil in pdp den, so even if ambode came out with labour party, u would stil vote for agbaje.
Lol, what an unstable fellow u re. And besides, politics needs sense, nobody wey wan last for life they do gragra like ibo.
Who tells u that ambody can not come out in the future to contest? What if he had done gragra and they ends his life like they did to Williams?? Wil u resurrect him back??

Alaye get sense, mojamosa la n mo akinkanju loju ogun, akinkanju to moja but tiko moosa ma n bogun lo ni.

No be everytin gragra dey solve, u ibos should leaen that.

Lagos agboro, slum dweller, u typed so much for my comment, u monkey. I wouldn't have time for a nonentity like u.

Ambode cowardice is legendary. It would have been an easy win for Ambode she he had picked the labour party ticket.

Cypress042:
Congratulations to her.


But she's not beautiful though, there's nothing at the backside

lol how u take see the backside?

She is just a stupid mad woman.

What do u expect of a two faces coward?

Abizz:
For an impostor who claims to dislike abridged typings in conversation but went ahead to disgustingly use "iri, idk, fr" in just two statements shows you are a ratchet being.
You should be behind bars.

lol If man united had such an attacker like u, they would be playing in CL.

nairavsdollars:
Hope 50 will help his ailing friend Eedriz Abdulkareem

lol

Lying to people for 70 good years now. Too bad!

This is the most useless post I ever read on NL.

One person I am 100% sure would not be re-elected is, Hope Uzodinma. The Supreme Court governor.

Is buhari still talking WILL? The lazy old man is having Just 11months to leave.

No Rapture and no hell anywhere.

Bible is overrated, religion is the biggest scam.

What happened to the God that promised him, President? They always come up with foolish English to cover up their failure.

fumisko:
Correct!!!
The news is true.
Let’s pray for their safe return and remember to pressure govt now that the whole Primaries is over.
It could be anybody.
May God take control

In as much as we pray for their return, we shouldn't joke about it. It is terrible to lie about such a sensitive, the family members would be seriously heartbroken if they should see the news and it was not true.

This is, not true pls! Confirmed by DSS!

Tinubu already got the entire southwest covered. So it is not a surprising thing. They can bribe delegates, they can't bribe the entire Nigerians. We are voting for Obi.

mark55512:
If you want sure bet message me at 08075525522

I paid a guy and ran with my money. E no go ever better for that guy.

cenaman:
How is these one a celebrity?

At least better than ur unknown parents.

They come for them, u are quiet u said it does not concern u. Now our turn.

Another sad day for Nigerians, a known criminal about to be declared standard flag bearer of PDP. Sad!

If she is not mad, then there is something u are not telling.

We have it here in kaduna