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Ihe ozo m choro ikwu be ihe a. Anyi enwere ike isi na 'lol' na Igbo bu 'io' nihi "laughing out loud" putara "ichiputa ochi" na Bekee?

Otu a "lmao" ga abu "iim" (ichifu ike m) yana "lwkmd" ga abu "ocigm" (ochi choro igbu mu).

Onye nwere ike isa m ajuju m a?

toshmann: finally anyi ga ezi ike peacock a. lekwa peacock nke m ma here


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikzPf8gI6qg

Lol, otu uka peacock a si biakwusa anyi na mberede di kwa ochi. Kama, nna egwu ahu di egwu.

*Odumchi buwa "Ejemanu m Nkworji ama nna m"*

Cuteonyi,

Please visit this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/1023235/real-hausa/1

This is a very interesting thread. I've always seen photos of men with wild animals but never knew what they were.

I'll start.

In Arochukwu, we don't use kwenu. The standard Aro greeting is as follows:

Aro nmanmanu!

Response: oeh!

Aro nmanmanu!

Response: oeh!

Oke-Igbo nmanmanu!

Response: oeh!

Umu nwanyi ori-ihe ori-ihe!

Response (by women): Maazi!

Contrary to popular belief, Igbo people don't really greet "Igbo kwenu" when in the midst of their townsfolk. The "Igbo kwenu" chant is only used when in a congregation of people from various Igbo subgroups.

So let's share our towns' greetings in order to help enlighten each other.

Ika - Umunnem we, unu etehie? Osonogbue emeka o ji kpotieni ura. Doo?

Centralized - Umunnem, unu etetela? Chukwu emeela na otu o si kpote unu ura. Kedu?

Aro - Ummunnem, inyi etesala? Obasi di n'elu emeela na aga o za meteni inyi ura. Ndaa?

Idemili - Umunnem, unu etetago? Olisabuluwa emego na otu o si kpote unu ula. Kedu?

This is Ika.

Antivirus92: but odumchi i think there is a complete difference between claims and reality?

The truth is that he is as Igbo as you and I are.

PAGAN 9JA:
no i dont. it is HE who is claiming Igbo heritage. then when your people will be in trouble, he will switch sides and claim Efik. No. mixed people are not and must never be given tribal heritage becuse they aren't.

The way we determine ethnic affiliation is complex and is not just based on blood. There are people in Cross River who speak Efik and live in Efik communities but when asked of their ethnic affiliation, they say they are Aro, and by extension, Igbo.

Abagworo, you said your mother is an Ikwere, but where is your father from?

ezeagu: Wikipedia counts Americans with an English ancestor from 1690 as of English descent, they list it along with their other descents since most Americans have multiple ancestry. Look at the page for English people, they count all those that listed themselves as English in the US census as English descent, even though they have multiple ancestries from hundreds of years ago. The Igbo people article has counted people from the 19th century (direct slaves) who arrived on those islands.

[To me] stuff like that doesn't make sense. Let's say there are fifty million Americans and out of that fifty million, twenty million claim English descent while the other thirty million claim both English and Italian descent. If the English decide to do a universal census and they include those with both solely English and English/Italian descent and the Italian also do their own census, they will both end up counting the same group.

The result will be that there will be more people of English and Italian descent than there actually are. I hope you understand me.

kabirv: Boys play better football

Tell that to the Super Eagles and to America's female football team.

fingard02k: okay but please can you help me with one of the numerous (according to you) dialet's version? Thanks

In Arochukwu, "I miss you" is literally "I mere m aka nkujo". Ohafia, Abam, Ihechiowa, and Abiriba all say it differently.

Ikomi: Okay kam Rapu Okwu, But the ajuju remains.

Agaba123 keeeeee ihe ana akpo "peacock" na Igbo?

Ajutala m aha 'peacock' na Igbo; o bu 'torotoro' otu ahu m gwara gi. Onwere abu umuaka na abuje na aga "torotoro kpaara m inyanga" putara "peacock show off for me" na Bekee.

Ugbua kedu kwan ihe akpaga?

How are you prepared to do so?

The Europeans are truly an interesting set! Human skulls kwa?

Let them just bury the poor skulls so that their souls can rest.

fingard02k: Dear i'm not acting anything. Which vernacular are you talking about? Have you ever seen or come across where the correct answer was given?. Do you know the answer before?.yes i wrote "revealed" cus it was kinda hidden/known before. If anyone should be acting/forming then have to be you.

Chinenye hit the nail on the spot. Most dialects have different ways of expressing "I miss you". What you got was the "typical" Anambra answer. If you asked an Abian or Deltan the same question, you'd get two totally different answers. In fact, Abia state alone has many ways of saying "I miss you".

Anyway, congrats on your rediscovery lol.

Antivirus92: Again anybody with igbo father even if his mother is from heaven is a complete igbo.

This is true; the reverse is also true.

Ohafia (and other communities in the Cross River region) traces lineage through the mother.

PAGAN 9JA:
you see, it is taking you time because such cases are very rare and almost unheard off. anyways Good Luck.

I'll provide a personal example.

A particular cousin of mine was born of an Efik father and an Igbo mother. He lived with his father in Cross River (where he was born) for a bit of his childhood before moving back to his mother's hometown. This particular cousin of mine speaks both Efik and Igbo fluently but he identifies himself as an Igbo since he has spent a considerable amount of time in his motherland.

Do you see what I am getting at?

PAGAN 9JA:
ah i know that person.that is just one example for the Ijaws. ok can you give me more examples of Igbo assimilations

I will, very soon.

Fulaman198: Yes sir, most Fulani northerners do

In fact a lot of people who are not ethnic Hausa speak Hausa.

I see; that's very interesting. I'd like to ask some more questions but this doesn't seem like the right place. Thanks.

PAGAN 9JA:
but that is the wrong way and i doubt many such cases have taken place if at all any.

also Oduduwa was one of the Niger-Congo peoples of the same greater ethnicity as the Yoruba, said to have come from the East, signifying the region of Ekiti and Okun sub-communities in northeastern Yorubaland/central Nigeria. Ekiti is near the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers, and is where the Yoruba language is presumed to have separated from related ethno-linguistic groupings like Igala, Igbo, and Edo, during the early years of their formation.

who is Jaja Jagboha? can you tell me about him

I'm not an expert on Yoruba mythology, however I've seen many people claim that Oduduwa was Edo (possibly Bini), but that doesn't really matter. What matters is the fact that he was a foreigner (to the Yoruba) who was intergrated into their culture.

Jaja Jubogha (excuse my earlier misspelling) was an Igbo man who was sold into slavery and was absorbed into the ranks of the Ijaw. He founded the kingdom of Opobo and is popularly referred to as "Jaja of Opobo".

Lol. You said that it's the wrong way but that's how it's been for ages immemorial.

Looking at that photo was very painful. O vuru uvu. But I'm fine now, lol.

PAGAN 9JA:
ok now lets say many of todays akatas have Igbo blood , maybe 5% or 20-30% of their blood quantum. are you going to say that they are Igbo?! !

"Igbohood" among the Igbo is not necessarily determined by blood. Most Igbo groups consider someone to be one of them once that person has been acquainted with their culture, traditions, and habits.

For example, a complete stranger can wander into an Igbo community like that of Ndi Mgborogwu (from Pita Nwana's Omenuko) and assume indentured servitude for a time period. After that time period, the man can acquire land and build a house of his own. With time, and with involvement in community affairs, the man will be accepted and regarded as a member of that community even though people know that he was not originally from there.

I believe this is the case with not only the Igbo but with many groups in southern Nigeria. Take Oduduwa (among the Yoruba) and Jaja Jabogha (among the Ijaw) for example.

The Wikipedia census should deal only with people who are of direct (up to great grand parents) Igbo descent. Trying to count everyone in this world that has a drop of "Igbo blood" is like trying to count the stars.

Ikengawo: no igbo woman, mind you the women's rights movement was almost completely and igbo exercise in the beginning of this nation and even today hence why igbo women are the only ones with rights in nigeria.


Amazing.

Margaret Ekpo is an Igbo. Her father was an Igbo businessman from [what is today] Anambra.

This thread already exists.

https://www.nairaland.com/1027284/yoruba-number-one-religious-tolerance

MsDarkSkin, you may want to visit this thread:

https://www.nairaland.com/1002511/encyclopedia-language-learning-resources

Thanks uceee and kieryn.

Here's an Igbo dictionary (Nri-Akwa)

http://www.archive.org/stream/anthropologicalr02thomuoft/anthropologicalr02thomuoft_djvu.txt

Lol @ the video.

I want to ask something: Fulaman, do you speak both Hausa and Fulfude?