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Ihuomadinihu:
Yes,of course.

ChinenyeN:
Ochi lei.. Ezeagu won't stop with this 'segzy' ordeal.

Ihuomadinihu:
Igbo izugbe is fine enough and it has served it's purpose.

Ihuomadinihu:
It isn't. It's a combination of consonants holding hands together obstructing the vocal track.

Ihuomadinihu:
That Ifeanyi whatever is inconsequential. There are many iheanyis all over Southern igbo.
No one has any authority to suggest anything to non onitsha igbo speakers. The dialect itself is strange in my ears,sorry. EOD!

eyeview:
Am not into tribal sentiments but am sure this topic won't make frontpage. Had it been about how an igbo boy was caught with drugs someone somewhere will shoot it to straight to the frontpage for reasons best known to him or her.

Ihuomadinihu:
I don't. That is not the main point.
These examples still doesn't give Onitsha igbo the platform to become an igbo izugbe.

ezeagu:
I guess the next question is, how can Standard Igbo be strengthened as standard for Igbo instead of random dialects replacing it?

Ihuomadinihu:
Still deviation. For God sake,i know a million iheanyis in Imo state. Drop that suggestion of yours,it ain't going nowhere.

Ihuomadinihu:
It still doesn't prove any point,you where hampering on actors originally. Onitsha people are not the only people that use ife etc.
People in Southern Igbo still use Iheanyi instead of Ifeanyi,those are only little deviations not the norm.

Ihuomadinihu:
No more actors again? You see your life? Those are exceptions, many people go with their Ihe/ihu lects.

IGBOSON1:
^^^I love him as if he were a blood brother!

Anyone know of any substantial project Orji Uzor Kalu has anywhere in the South East!? Afterall they do tell us he's on Forbes (Nigeria) richest list, so i'd expect there's a multi-million dollar investment of his somewhere in the South East that we're yet to know of!

Ihuomadinihu:
Who are not from Onitsha but are from somewhere close to Onitsha and generally use the onitsha igbo dialect.

Ihuomadinihu:
I asked you to list the actors. If i go into nollywood,am not gonna speak what i don't know unless it's a regional igbo movie like Nwa nsukka and the rest. Be specific.

Ihuomadinihu:
You can't just wake up one morning and start speaking Onitsha igbo. We have already discussed about the place and importance of Onitsha in Igbo history,i wouldn't go back to that.
Pls list the Imo actors that speak onitsha igbo in movies.

ChinenyeN:
Let me understand, are you using 'Onitsha' as a general term for 'northernizing' one's speech? i.e. consciously switching from /h/ to /f/, as an example? If that's the case, then I can understand this statement. I've seen this happen, but it typically happens when /h/-speakers communicate with /f/-speakers and almost never when /h/-speakers communicate with /h/-speakers. In fact most /h/-speakers will tell you that they feel as though they have to go out of their way for /f/-speakers for two reasons:
1) /f/-speech is practically the only thing /f/-speakers have any real familiarity with.
2) /f/-speakers pretty much never go of their way to switch for /h/-speakers.
The general consensus is that most /f/-speakers would be lost when interacting with /h/-speakers. So, for the sake of intelligibility and to cut down time, /h/-speakers will go out of their way for /f/-speakers. However, in literary communication, that is not the case. Izugbe or Central becomes the mode of speech by which /h/-speakers communicate with /f/-speakers, and you will rarely ever see an /h/-speaker make that switch from /h/ to /f/, unless out of some courtesy or playfully.

Ihuomadinihu:
It's never that. Both will use a central Igbo izugbe that waters down their respective igbo dialects.

Ihuomadinihu:
@Ezeagu this is what i'm trying to explain. I interact with Onitsha igbo speakers on daily basis and we all maintain our izugbes during conversations.
Stop giving out a false and unfounded impression on this thread.

Ihuomadinihu:
Ozuola nu. At the end of the day,nobody is adopting Onitsha igbo as the standard igbo izugbe. And nobody is adopting SCI in Onitsha as a standard dialect unless you want to learn and facilitate a conversation.
@Op you no try for this suggestion at all.

NRIPRIEST:
I don't really care about what is spoken in Sountern Igbo land because I am not from there,yet I wouldn't like a situation whereby Anambra dialect is being corrupted by the influence of Igbo Izugbe or whatever the crap they call it. I know the structure of Igbo Izugbe is based on the Onicha/Idenmili axis but the pronunciation of the words represents what is spoken in southern Igbo land. And that is very dangerous!

Ihuomadinihu:
Ezhiokwu? Where did you carryout this research? I've not come across that before.

Ihuomadinihu:
Before this,till now, Agbor to Aro use Onitsha dialect. When?

atbu1983:
I am Esan. we share boundary with Anioma people of Delta state. You even have Ekpon who are both Esan and Anioma at d same time. They are bilingual. Most of the migrant from Benin Empire that form most of d today Anioma are esan. That is why Esan, ika, ukwuani and other Anioma people look alike.

Esan are descendant of Bini.

lygn19:
(1) trying to rewrite there history with the grand plan of making the gullible ones beleive they are from Benin.

dmz1:
under no circumstance should ikwerre and Ijaw be allowed into Biafra. it is even preferable for idoma to be included in Biafra than those misguided groups.

Digitron:
Good news!
The Igbo should start investing on their home soil. kudos to ibeto

christinie:
I won't banter words with you. I can only try to enlighten you. If you like you learn, if not no problem.
Most Chinese first do some menial jobs that the likes of you can't touch with 10 inches pole to raise capitals eg some of them sweep, some work in the restaurants, some are sales boys/girls, some are commercial cyclist (yes okada!), some are commercial bicycle riders, some are keke riders, some sell things on the road side, some roast goat/pork/chicken/lamb/beef etc. When they do these works they are very focused because they have a target. Once they raise capital they start trading. When they trade for some years they go into manufacturing.

DuchessLily:
U see what I mean?

Its so sad... Really sad