₦airaland Forum

Ufeolorun: A proper assessment would tell us the standard Yoruba we speak is actually Lagos-Yoruba not Oyo. The economic influence of Lagos has continued to shape the way we speak the language and may threaten all the various dialects.

The standard yoruba has always been Oyo. Lagos dialect we hear everyday is a corrupt form of Oyo dialect. The actual Lagos dialect is totally different

In Lagos today we say Bawo ni which is Oyo but actual Isale eko ancient dialect is Bawa n

[quote author=Sheriff©]It is falacious to say a man is a Great man, because in the hussle of his trade he distinguished himself, . I think those that assert this premised their conclusion on obvious error and a very faulty one at that, with due respect to all with opinion that Papa Chinua Achebe was a great man; Is just that I am yet to see the reason(s) for that (or maybe I have not listened enough).

I'm of the opinion that he was a great writer and a good storyteller whose works tell the stories of his people, but a 'great' man in the context of greatness?...nah! I don't think we are fair enough to ascribing greatness to a man who from his writing one could see traces of tribalism- or could one call it enthic promotion?[/quote]well said. a good (not great) writer does not make a man great. He is an enemy of progress and tolerance whether we like it or not. The truth be told a tribalist is a tribalist whether he is a good writer or not

Putting the country in a catch 22. No demands nothing. Rubbish

All options have be exhausted as of now

This is funny though, I mean if they are surprised at the president's action then they should provide a solution for him.

State of emergency stands until the boko haram either collects amnesty or are fished out

Dabiri is a name common to the Eko (part of Lagos), Awori, Ikorodu (an Ijebu people) and perhaps Egun peoples of Yoruba land. The translation of the name can be derived by analyzing the roots:

Da – found/create/started

Ibi – here

Ri - to existence

Bring this location into existence or first settler

Kosoko- Don't dig a grave

Aromire = defeated the river/ became the river's friend

Abebi - we asked for a child/ begged for a child

Abegbe - we asked for a child to lift up the child

Abike - Give birth to the child and care for the child

Abeke- We beg for her to caress her

Abeo - I bring joy

Abiona - Born during a trap

Adesimbo - Nobel birth

Adio - be righteous

Adisa - make this meaning clear

Adunbi - Born to be pleasant

Afiba - By the sea

Aiyetoro - Peace on earth

Ajagbe- He carries off the prize

Ajamu - Fight for what he wants

Ajani - fight for possession

Akanni- Encounter brings possession

Ainkawon - Bravery pacified them

Akono - it is my turn

Alonge - A skinny or tall person

Animashaun - Generous

Aole - Son of a king

Apara/ Akpara - A child that comes and goes

Apata/ Akpata - huge rock or hill

Asinia - stern

Enahoro - Like the sun

Mongo - Famous

Obayana - King warms himself at fire

Ojo - A difficult delivery

Onipede - The consoler will come

Omolara - a child is family

Jumoke - Loved by everybody

Ajao - Praise name

Kayin - celebrated child

Ife - love

Ige - born feet first

Ayomide - my joy has arrived

Amadi - seemed destined to die at birth

Adisa - one who is clear

Abidemi - born during father's absence

Enitan - person of story

Sowande - Wise healer sought me out

Yejida - Image of her mother

Torkwase - Queen

Danku - a short person, mostly used by those in Kogi, Kwara and upper Oyo.

Anike - Given so she may be cared for

Amutorunwa - A child brings from heaven

better, all his noise has not gone unnoticed. He really needs to be careful

As a proper Lagosian born and raised in my father's land, I can categorically tell you that a typical yoruba man is not a bigot neither is he moved by ethnicity or religion. All you even see on nairaland is because of the Igbo bigots and that is about it. Although I am a yoruba muslim ( as most TRUE LAGOS INDIGNES are muslims), it is not religion that drives us but competency which can even turn to oppression at times.

Good luck with your quest but I can assure you that if SW is destabilized, the whole country would feel it.

shymexx: Laughable... It's not by force to write in English, bro..

Are you sure you're an Edo guy??

Not in the mood for this shiit, bro.

definitely not

but the igbos are doing the same with the nigeria army, aviation and customs.

tarryT: U dey find trouble o... Make those "lord parasites" wey dey form merger everywhere no catch u...
Abi u don forget those people dey shout "one nigeria" but dey bomb people commot (kanuri) for their land and those hypocrites wey dey proudy[b] "deport" people commot for their state see this tread[/b] (yoruba)..
I go click unfollow..

ngozievergreen: Kolanut is produced by yorubas more but the hausas eat it more.

Mistake my sister. Kolanut is a nut from a tree ONLY found in tropical regions this it is not produced by yorubas but by west africans,

NOTE : The only tropical part of west africa so likes of (extreme) northern ghana, Northern nigeria etc does not favour the growth of kolanut.

Eifeh: Yoruba people how true is this? I have not seeing it in any yoruba restaurant over my 2 year in ibadan.

No my brother Egusi or Egwusi is purely Yoruba and not Igbo. Water melon does not in tropical climate like in the east but savannas likes those in northern Oyo, Kwara, Niger, Kogi etc. So given that fact, it could only have been introduced by either nupes or yorubas.

Please we should stop feeding people with uncomfirmed informations.

[quote author=nnenna.1]For some reason, when Northerners talk about the south they mean Igbo in particular.

What's up with that? [/quote]because yorubas/edos/itsekiri are NOT southerners but westerners

in support. just post the date

van bonattel: My friend, it seems you are swimming in an ocean of iberiberism

I beg wetin be iberiberism, another achebe's work ? LOOL

You see op you come across as an unserious fellow. LOL

WHAT IS ACHEBEISM

van bonattel: Achebeism, a new subject being introduced in secondary schools by Eze Nyesom Nwike.

OK on a serious note, what is Achebeism in a short and precise definition ?

ijaw citizen: The response to the topic was just what I expected. So Pathetic!

These Yoruba people are just like their Igbo counterparts. They don't see anything wrong with their people and leaders but they will let hell loose whn it comes to issues concerning other peoples.

When it comes to corrupt people in Nigeria, we shouldn't even be mentioning names like Tinubu when we haven't finished discussing the collosal failure of the inglorious Obasanjo whose messes President Jonathan is currently cleaning up in the country.

The same mess of subsidy (one of the greatest achievement of ObJ tenure) that Jonathan removed that sparked the greatest protest in Nigeria from the South West; Yorubaland and others in the North.

The truth is I can't possibly articulate all the mess obtained from the Yoruba man's administration but how can forget in a hurry his failures on Power, Refineries, Elections, Agriculture ( remember OBJ is a farmer, but couldn't resuscitate agriculture), Aviation (remember FANI KAYODE?), Education, etc

Pls don't test me!

bia bia bia, Never ever ever compare yorubas to Igbos We don't support corruption and have never supported any corrupted Yoruba

We do not like Tinubu and Niaraland does not represent Yorubas . Lagosians don't like tinubu neither do we like GEJ because they are the same

revolt: M a full nwafor.I'm fully igbo nd on GEJ 2015 I stand. We igbos seem to have gained our rightful dues in this govt @least makes us feel like were of equal rights in naija unlike past govts tht was strictly hausa n yoruba affair plus this govt promotes MERIT. i

Like you have a choice. It is either GEJ or political suicide

not new, the SW and north have done the same.

very comical

Abagworo: Alhaji boko haram please can you educate me on the origin of the name "Yoruba" and which people it was applied to? Were Ijebus Yorubas? Were Ijeshas Yorubas? I'm not interested in migration as everybody seems to have migrated and remigrated. Some people in Ondo like Ilaje claim to have migrated from Ife which means the present day Ilaje was not their home. Same applies to some Igbos that claim to have migrated from Benin and some Ijaws who claim to have migrated from Benin as well.

Now I know where your confusion is coming from. The word "yoruba" is a relatively new concept but the nation "Omo Yoruba or Omo Odua" is not new. Lets not mistake the two

I mean it is ridicules to compare the history of yorubas with the history of Igbos.

bigfrancis21: Yoruba is not an indigenous language of Togo. The yoruba speakers found in Togo are yoruba migrants from Nigeria who still make return trips back to Nigeria. Emmanuel Adebayor, the Togolese player, was born in Togo to yoruba migrants from Nigeria. His father still strongly identifies with his ancestral home. Adebayor is as Togolese by birth as any Nigerian kid born in the US is an american by birth, not origin.
Like someone mentioned before, the world is a global village and the presence of a migrant group in a foreign country doesn't make that group indigenous to that country.

can you people stop these ignorant statements. No one mentioned Adebayor as his parents are Nigerians.

I am talking of indigeous Yorubas in Togo and not likes of Adebayor

http://www.linguistik-online.de/43_10/fabunmi.pdf

When we say Ewa Agoyin which is a type of beans who do you think we are refering to ?

Do you know the meaning of Agoyin ?

This is a book by Robert Smith in 1988

I please you an nnenna should educate yourselves if you are ignorant and stop arguing

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ric6OhxbCS0C&pg=PA55&dq=indigenous+Yorubas+in+TOGO&hl=en&sa=X&ei=o3NqUbyUKsSn0AXapYGQBg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=indigenous%20Yorubas%20in%20TOGO&f=false

Go to places like Tado an Atakpame in togo, there are indigenous and even have a king

The word Anago or Nago, where do you think it came from ? From Nigeria or from the sky ?

The Itaha group of Togo what do you think they are ?

You can educate yourselves more here

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fwc5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=Yoruba+togo&source=bl&ots=baYzgidZ_o&sig=o__Iq2xgvY7b_1Re7dUp2aCGzkA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pnRqUZyBD-2l0wXaloD4Cw&ved=0CDgQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=Yoruba%20togo&f=false

PLEASE ABGAWORO, DO EVER COMPARE YORUBAS TO IGBOS. Igbos are migrates to Cameroun just as they are in Lagos. Yorubas are not Migrates but indignous

to some people, ACN can never be wrong. Fasheun loves yoruba people more than any tinubu

[quote author=Chima_Adeoye]These aren't the history makers, these are some of the wreckers of Nigeria.[/quote]How ?

[quote author=na2day!]First TV in Africa!
Imagine if we had continued with that speed?
By now we'd have been the best country in Africa, but now, all we have is regret, hatred and bitterness!
And now, south Africa is exporting dstv to us![/quote]You are very correct
I could just imagine. Then Idddiots like Tinubu would be comparing himself to Awolowo.

very good thread

[quote author=nnenna.1]Haha wow! Seems that the this whole cultural claiming thing is a special Nigerian niche.

Ga people and Some parts of Togo are now Yoruba.

Some Latin Americans also speak Yoruba as a second language.

Okay o.[/quote]Cultural claim ? I don't understand. It is what it is, there is no claim. Facts are stated

Now when did I infer that Ga people are Yorubas ?

Togo yes and quote me anyday

Latin America yes, quote me any day

[quote author=nnenna.1]As much as I question some of the claims being made in the OP's write-ups I can't help but notice that this cultural supremacy war (also aimed at belittling others) is a two-way street.

Aside from Benin Republic, I don't think there are other countries with Yoruba speaking groups.

Diasporan people that retain several aspects of Yoruba ritual and dance don't count as Yoruba speaking, unless you want to back this up.

There are also several cultural remnants of other African groups (including Igbos, Efiks, Sahelian Africans) present in the diaspora as well.[/quote]I think I disagree with you in that aspect. I also don't think it is good to make misinforming comments. In as much as it is your opinion, we need to take into consideration how you minds are taking some of this post we write for example the OP is a clear example of misinformation by another party.

Yoruba language is spoken in many countries and indeed Yoruba language is indigenous to many countries as well.

Yoruba language is a tree on his own aka Yoruboid and Nago. To the extent that the Ga tribe of Ghana ( a very small ethnic group) speak a yoruba dialect and that is why YORUBAS and Hausas were two of the first african migrants to trade in Ghana due to the little or no language barrier for some.

Togo is another country where yoruba is spoken there. Places like Plateau Region, Ogou and Est-Mono prefectures; Centrale Region and Tchamba Prefecture. This is a third of the country so lets get our facts right.

Disporians you mention are not disporians. Now what is the meaning of dispora and meaning of indigenous ?

When a significant amount of people practise, speak and mediate on a culture in the country they call home all their lifes ?, you still call them disporians ? when history is there for us to see

Thankgodifeduba: yes Igbo means bush in Yoruba. And did you ever bothered to know how come Igbo came to mean bush in Yoruba? Re read my posts again. EGBA(IGBOS) ARE FOREST DWELLERS OR BUSH PEOPLE. Thats how IGBO/ EGBA came to mean BUSH in yoruba

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