₦airaland Forum

This Igbo denials must stop... Even in the so called south east Igbo hinterlands, there are dialects like ezza, izzi, ikwo etc dt r far less intelligible than so called Anioma dialects, my question is, is it Edo dt still influenced them when they r surrounded by other mutually intelligible Igbo dialects People who cheaply employ dis rubbish division classifying igbo as being separate language from other Igbo dialects outside the politically created south east is just doing that with an ulterior motive, either to remain politically relevant as a different people in their domain dt is far away from the major Igbo cluster of south east or avoid entirely the Igbo man post civil war stigma...but it shldnt be this way! People shld know d following
1. Every language must have dialect variations as geographical positioning widens. Yorubas and Hausa's have dialects n all are not mutually intelligible although similarities exit...if a sokoto man speaks his Hausa dialect, a kano man will have a 5seconds delay in decoding what he is saying. Which will even take a Jos man much more timing to decode entirely dts if he can understand up to 60%

2.A dialect cannot be classified as a separate language from other of the language dialects simply because geographical distance or some imaginally politically administration lines if not Austrians today will not be seen and called a Germanic tribe or let's come home the egbas and ekpes of yorubas y not also classify them as being an entire different ethnic group.

3.if a language at a boaderline influences each other, that language must retain majority of it's own original language words and not that of the influencer... The influencers language will only appear in the language as borrowed words and not as a major syntactically correct sentence. Take the case of Agbor, oza and igbanke as example... From my understanding, Agbor's ika has many borrowed edoid words probably from the edoid group "oza" dt lives within their midst... Oza although having lived so many centuries within ika Pple still speak an edoid tongue totally different from any anioma subs... Although they may have few borrowed Anioma words over the years of interaction But they still backup the history claim that they are originally Edo fugitives who seemed asylum within Agbor ... Also look at igbanke, an igbanke or Igbo akiri man understands central Igbo at first contact even though it is furthest from the major Igbo cluster of south east, they also for years have lived in Edo and its language environ but still can't understand any edoid language but can understand a person from as far as Abia state.

My point is classification of many Igbo dialects as igboid group but a different entire language is a devise means of perpetuating a vicious malicious ulterior agenda!

Living in bondage Part1

Most times Pple dt stir up dis kind of intra ethnic strife are not from any of the ethnic's dialect and I believe dis one is not different... This is just a cheap mischievous way to foster their hatred on a better ethnic group dt their which is Igbo in dis regard... this is just another continuation of the media war on d igbos stemming from the fear of what igbos could accomplish if united...I have one message for them, they will fail woefully... time will tell!

I really like the caller tune but it seems to only been composed for MTN advert...