₦airaland Forum

I hate when people dabble into what they know next to nothing about. How on Earth will someone will asking a dumb question that if Edo is a language, I consider that as an insult to the Edo Nation. When you a educationally handicapped please make effort to study or ask informed people. For your education; Edo language is Spoken by all descendants of the Ancient Benin Kingdom, who are predominantly found in Edo state, hence the name Edo. At the creation of Edo state from then BENDEL (Benin and Delta), then Edo Vice-President of Nigeria Admiral Aikhomu, Traditional Rulers of the BENIN side now Edo state, agreed that the name of our state should reflect our collective Ethnic Identity; EDO. Benin city is the ancestral home of all the people of the state. The Etsako, Owan, Akoko Edo (whose name predates the formation of Edo state) and Esan speak variations of the Bini/Edo Central Language and Oba of Benin is the Overlord in Edo state he is the father of all the Traditional Rulers in the state. We don't different languages in Edo state but One Language; Edo with different variations as you move away from the centre; Benin city. Abakaliki Ibo is not Comprehensible to an Owerri man and vice-versa, Owo dialect is not comprehensible to an Ijebu man and Vice-versa but they are referred to as Igbo language and Yoruba respectively. So also is Etsako, Owan, Akoko Edo is to Bini and vice-versa. So please stay out of what you know nothing about. Our dear state is Edo state and our Language is called Edo. I hope you are educated now.

I hate when people dabble into what they know next to nothing about. How on Earth will someone will asking a dumb question that if Edo is a language, I consider that as an insult to the Edo Nation. When you a educationally handicapped please make effort to study or ask informed people. For your education; Edo language is Spoken by all descendants of the Ancient Benin Kingdom, who are predominantly found in Edo state, hence the name Edo. At the creation of Edo state from then BENDEL (Benin and Delta), then Edo Vice-President of Nigeria Admiral Aikhomu, Traditional Rulers of the BENIN side now Edo state, agreed that the name of our state should reflect our collective Ethnic Identity; EDO. Benin city is the ancestral home of all the people of the state. The Etsako, Owan, Akoko Edo (whose name predates the formation of Edo state) and Esan speak variations of the Bini/Edo Central Language and Oba of Benin is the Overlord in Edo state he is the father of all the Traditional Rulers in the state. We don't different languages in Edo state but One Language; Edo with different variations as you move away from the centre; Benin city. Abakaliki Ibo is not Comprehensible to an Owerri man and vice-versa, Owo dialect is not comprehensible to an Ijebu man and Vice-versa but they are referred to as Igbo language and Yoruba respectively. So also is Etsako, Owan, Akoko Edo is to Bini and vice-versa. So please stay out of what you know nothing about. Our dear state is Edo state and our Language is called Edo. I hope you are educated now.

I hate when people dabble into what they know next to nothing about. How on Earth will someone will asking a dumb question that if Edo is a language, I consider that as an insult to the Edo Nation. When you a educationally handicapped please make effort to study or ask informed people. For your education; Edo language is Spoken by all descendants of the Ancient Benin Kingdom, who are predominantly found in Edo state, hence the name Edo. At the creation of Edo state from then BENDEL (Benin and Delta), then Edo Vice-President of Nigeria Admiral Aikhomu, Traditional Rulers of the BENIN side now Edo state, agreed that the name of our state should reflect our collective Ethnic Identity; EDO. Benin city is the ancestral home of all the people of the state. The Etsako, Owan, Akoko Edo (whose name predates the formation of Edo state) and Esan speak variations of the Bini/Edo Central Language and Oba of Benin is the Overlord in Edo state he is the father of all the Traditional Rulers in the state. We don't different languages in Edo state but One Language; Edo with different variations as you move away from the centre; Benin city. Abakaliki Ibo is not Comprehensible to an Owerri man and vice-versa, Owo dialect is not comprehensible to an Ijebu man and Vice-versa but they are referred to as Igbo language and Yoruba respectively. So also is Etsako, Owan, Akoko Edo is to Bini and vice-versa. So please stay out of what you know nothing about. Our dear state is Edo state and our Language is called Edo. I hope you are educated now.

I am baffled that someone in this thread could be asking if Edo is a language, that person's education I questionable. Why would you dabble to respond to an Edo issue that is of no concern to an Igbo person. Get thi straight into your hea from today; the people; Etsako, Owan, Esan an Akoko Edo are from the Parent stock Bini. They speak variations of the same Bini language spoken in Benin city. They were founded by Kings, Princes and Warlord from the Source; Bini. They have no problem with th teaching of their ancestral/central language in schools. You will agree with me that your so called Igbo language is made up of several languages Abakaliki language is not comprehensible to an Owerri person except they switch code to the central Igbo language, so is Etsako, Owan or Bini among Edo speaking people. This is Same for all Ethnic groups. I hope you are clear.

There is no such thing as Esan [not ishan as u call it] language nor Afemai language neither is Bini a language, but Edo is the language. Esan[those that jumped] is a geographical area, so also is Afemai[our home] but Benin is the root of all the migrants to these regions, so the variants of Edo language are as a result of the outward movement from Benin. All Edos are of Bini blood and so the Bini root lingua is our general language.