₦airaland Forum

mightyhazell:
that akwa example is a very perfect one.. we also have egbe (kite) and egbe (gun).. that our elders use to issue threats.. 'i will show you the difference between egbe and egbe'

lol ....they are just too many

Ikennamurphy:
OK.. Well maybe your origin is in the central part of igboland because most of those on the border towns are adulterated

Yes, I understand most Igbo dialects including the far fetched reaches of Anioma, but Ebonyi clans have the heaviest Igbo I've heard, wayy too heavy for me

Ikennamurphy:
Yeah.. People even more easily communicate in their dialects more perfectly than the central spoken igbo

Depending on the native dialect Shaa, mine is close to the central Igbo so I can switch very easily, though it's usually not necessary

Ikennamurphy:
Good explanation.. But I think most native languages have same thing.. I just noticed they're no much people interested in really trying to learn it the right way.. Them no de learn language in a day even Hausa sef.. Esp as adults.. Children learn language faster with ease

Yes I agree, But it seems Igbo is a special kind of hard even for the person trying to teach, Contextual meanings are more complicated than what is obtained in for example English language

I have heard alot of non-native Igbos that are interested in learning Igbo complain of the difficulty they face with the Igbo language and all its numerous complexities, Igbo was my first language so i never noticed this until I started meeting non-igbos who wanted to learn Igbo on-the go like other languages and found it mind boggling and highly complicated.

Igbo language has a way with words and Sentences that are simply impossible to translate to English with high Accuracy, for Example someone may say "Ahuru m gi n'anya" which means "I love you" and every Igbo native speaker will understand it as such, but what it literally translates to is "I see you with my eyes"...Now you see the quagmire a learner will face when trying to understand and translate sentences?

Igbo language is also highly tonal, one word could well mean five things depending on the tone of the speaker for Example, Àkwá = Egg , Ákwá = cry , Àkwà = Clothing , Ákwà = Bed, I may have gotten this tonal marks mixed up though .....so imagine the confusion a learner will face with all these similar words that are differentiated only by tone.

Again Igbo language has a wide array of double letters that are tongue twisting for intending speakers, Few example The " KW ", "Gb", "Gw" ," Ch" and the notorious " ñ " that many people find so hard to get right.

I won't even go into proverbs and idioms that are an integral part of the language and very hard to grasp for a learner. I've observed though that the fastest and most effective way to learn the Igbo language is to throw yourself into it, It will be mistakes all over the place and you may get laughed at 'cos mistakes in Igbo language sentence structures always sounds very funny to native speakers, But you will learn in leaps and bounds while being corrected, and in no time you will master this ancient tongue twisting, mind rattling, highly complex language that Has been spoken in different forms and dialects for millennias....K'emesia nu

IGBOs are very good at keeping pressure on their leaders and exposing their loopholes, Abia trended on Twitter today cos Igbos where venting there frustration at ikpeazus ineffectiveness, The truth is the man is doing what he thinks is his best, he is always looking very moody when he appears in public these days..... Pressure is on him

You want to be Tribalistic like others but you don't have much sense

Kiss my a$$$

Sammy07:
What does the topic says, Mr. Oke igbo in Igbo land.

It's there for you to read through, You rushed and commented off-point

Sammy07:
Actually Lagos has it.

If you're talking about technology, solutions to your Electronics, phones, computer wares.

If you can get it anywhere, you'll always get it in Lagos.

Is your head working at all?

They should pay the waste disposers.....Onitsha is already getting overpopulated don't compound the problem

She should change her name to pickerHerSelf

Scammers unite

It will end in tears for any Fulani caught doing vigilante in igboland

Yoruba and Igbo unite against China

The Lagos IGbO and yoruba are still dragging China wan put hand too

There is a charm for bringing lost relatives home, especially those abroad.....Visit your village dibia and watch magic unfold before your eyes

ThatFairGuy1:
Kanu disciples are mentally unstable like himself. What they do on their group page on FB is worse than this. YOU'LL BE MARVEL.
If dem born Dem well, make Dem go there go claim am nah.

It's just about Open minded discussion or argument nobody is claiming Ikenne (not like its good for anything) Una blood too dey hot

Iamgrey5:
Shabi it means Ike nna the Anambra boy?

And as a matter of fact, Osibanjo, Awolowo and co who all came from Ike nna are igbos

Are you happy now?

Ikenne means mother's strength in Igbo, but I would love to hear how it is pronounced in yoruba tongue..... obvious these people can't be Igbo but the town sounds and is written like Igbo(from my point of view).....I may be biased though

Balogunodua:
Shutup!

You can't just come online to make a claim without making research on it and be claiming Mr. English, there is a town in Anambra called Oba so does that make it a Yoruba name?

Don't tell me to shut up, I'm typing not talking Durhh

Sammy07:
Bro, Oya let's talk proper

If the "igbo" in Odigbo and Oke igbo are igbo towns.

What is the meaning of "oke" and "odi" in Igbo language?

We have Igbo Ora, Olugbo

What is the meaning of "ora" "olu" and "igbo"

So that we can join it together in Igbo language

Ok, "ora" in Igbo language refers to a group of people with with common ancestry

"Olu" is work in igbo

"Igbo" was a corruption of what was originally "ugbo" meaning farm in Igbo language

Sammy07:
In

Come back here, I'm ready to expose your lies.

Because it's sounded igbo have you research what it means in Yoruba?
Have your research how they come about the "igbo" name?

Have you researched how it's being pronounced?

Anywhere you see "igbo" in Yoruba land it means Bush and pronunced as BUSH.

Except some cases where it means India hemp.

If them born you well can you come over to spill this trash in the palace??

I dey vex self.

See revisionist of history of the highest order.

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Thatfairguy1
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Ooni of ife posited something similar sometime ago....he is a respectable king of yoruba land,..read up his press release

Balogunodua:
Igalaland not the entire Kogi state, now tell me the towns in Ondo with igbo names?

I have answered that somewhere on this page, note the names are only observations I could be wrong, You lots insult a lot and still complain when it's multiplied and returned to you

Salewa97:
You are obviously high.

Ikenne is where Obafemi Awolowo hail from in Ogun state, is that also an Ibo name? So because there is a name that occur in Igbo language it automatically means Igbo?

So because it’s called Ijebu Igbo means the owner are Igbos? Igbo in Yoruba mean bush.

Odo Igbo means River by the Bush. How could that be termed to be an Igbo name because they have the same name for it. Seems a lot of Igbo are drunk on this forum.

Oke Igbo (Hill by the Bush) is what you called Okigbo, I think you’re hallucinating.

Ikeji-Arakeji is a Yoruba word you Igbo. So because Ikeji is also a word in Igbo means it’s an Igbo named town?

Osu could mean many thing in Yoruba. It could mean month, it’s dim (dark), and etc.

it seems Yoruba are very insultive in nature but complain a lot about insults, I ll overlook all that..... Please what does Ikenne mean in Yoruba?

Balogunodua:
The highness must have affects is brain.

See the English he is even speaking, chai na me Bleep up to reply you

Sammy07:
Nonsense, I only striked out the two because I'm from Ondo state. Ondo city to be precise.

Odigbo town is under Ondo Kingdom but it's under Ore local government.
They speak the same dialect as Ondo city.

The founder of Oke igbo was Derin Odegbenla if I got it right.

Okeigbo is beside Ile Oluji.
Ile Oluji is the twin brother of Ondo city.

Derin was from Ile Ife.
Stop saying what you don't know Abeq.

Unrecorded folk tales and stories are not in short supply anywhere in African history every group has their own, I just pointed out names that sounded very Igbo keep your fairy tales,.....Bye

Balogunodua:
Where for Ondo or Kogi you see towns with Igbo names Or you don high ni?

Ugwuebonyi, Ebokwe, Ozara, Amaeke, Amankpo, Amauwani camp, Amaokwu, Amadiefioha, Amaufulu, etc. all in Igalamela/Odolu LGA on kogi...In Ibaji LGA, we can see some town names such as Nwajala, Umuoye, Ubulie-Umueze.....Igala people uses the same Four market days as seen in igboland namely Eke, Ede, Afor and Ukwor in Igala land as opposed to Nkwo eke oye and afor in igboland....You can either research ad get new insights or throw insults around Nairaland like a mad man

Sammy07:
Can you point out igbo town or village in Ondo state.

And hope you're not trying to think of ugbo?

Ikenne, odigbo, okigbo, ikeji, osu, all in the southwest, this are the ones I remember