₦airaland Forum

jacobs2015:
Weldone..... Continue

Na dem season be this.

If u gerrit, gud. If u no gerrit, forget abarrit.

He used come constituency meeting
Face your party

PresidObi:
What will APC campaign with in the South east?

Nothing.

They should just apologise to the south east and kneel down and beg.

Apart from insecurity and destabization, the south east got nothing because of the 5% policy.


Thank you Obasanjo for building the Onitsha - Owerri dual carriage road without any long stories. Buhari has been on the only project he's doing in the south east for 7 years and still never completed it.

Your region no really matter in terms of campaign

Akurakambe:
Painment. You're in sifia pains

Your generation na

Akurakambe:
That's my president speaking. Peter Obi is the last hope of the common man, the man that'll transform the fortune of Nigeria. The choice of the majority of Nigerians.

God bless Peter Obi
God bless OBIdient people
Vote for LabourParty and you'll be glad you did.

Only Biafra land

scholes0:
@OP look at it this way, the closeness btw the aboriginal Igalas (Akpoto) & Yoruba is ancestral. A result of both groups descending from the same ancestors in deep prehistory that is soo old that nobody recorded it. The relationship between Igala & Igbo you friend talks about is as a result of geographical closeness/inter-relationship along border areas & some culture rubbing off each other. There r even igalas in today's SE. So actually, depending on the Igala u ask, there are varying degrees of closeness with neighbors. Some Igalas will tell u they r closest to Agatu/Idoma, some will tell u it is Bassa-Nge/Nupe. These are all location induced relatedness.

Igala looks like heavily modified archaic Yoruba.

Many of the words are the same. For those that are not exactly the same, I observed the following changes/modifications.

1) I noticed keenly that they have evolved to replace nasal vowel (Añ, Eñ, Iñ, Oñ, Uñ Etc) endings in Yoruba with their open oral vowel equivalents.
Because Yoruba has 7 oral and 7 nasal vowels... but seems Igala has only oral ones.

* And also some consonant mutation in Igala , i.e (R to L), (L to N), (J to Bÿ), (S to R/L) etc....
Here are some RULES:

Rule A*: Nasal vowel ending words in Yoruba to open vowel ending in Igala. Middle diphthong eliminated when present
Jeuñ (eat) - Jeñwu
Igbiñ (snail) - Igbi
Ohuñ (thing) - Eñwu
Eyiñ (tooth) - Eñyi
Ọkuñ (illipede) - Ọkọ
Eguñ (ancestors) - Egwu
Oguñ (medicine) - Ogwu
Fuñfuñ (white) - Fufu
Fañ (blow) - Fa
Agañ (barren) - Aga
Kañ (sour) - Ka
Okañ (one) - Oka
Oduñ (year) - Odo
Agbañ (chin) - Agba
Ouñ (he/she/it) - Oñwu
Ofuñ (throat) - Ofa
Oyañ (breats) - Eñya
Idiñ (maggot) - Ide
Ekuñ (leopard) - Eko
Tituñ (new) - Tito

Rule B* Consonant mutation R to L and vice versa
Kekere (small) - Kekele
Irawo (star) - Ilawo
Iri (dew/mist) - eli
Olu (lord) - Onu
Ro (cultivate) - Lo
Olamide (name) - Uramide
Iru (seed) - ilu
Akere (toad) - Akele
Ra (buy) - La
Erira (ants) - Elila
Ri (see) - Li
Ora (fat) - Ula
Oruñgbe (thirst) - Olugbe

Rule C* Consonant mutation S to R/L
Ese (leg) - Ere
Eso (fruit) - Ero
Se (block) - Re
Sø (throw) - Rø

Rule D* Consonant mutation S and SH to CH
It seems like the “Sh” sound in absent in some Igala dialects , and they replace with a 'CH'... These dialects that lack the the SH sound seem to have become the standard for the whole of Igala.

Sheyi (done this) - Cheyi
Oshu (moon) - Ochu
Ishu (yam) - Uchu
Ashe (authority) - Ache
Isha (pot) - Ucha
Shu (defecate) - Chu

Rule E* Consonant mutation J to BŸ
Aja (dog) - Abya
Eje (seven) - Ebye
Ẹjɛ (blood) - Ẹbyɛ

Rule F* Consonant mutation W to GW just like in the South-Eastern Yorubaland dialects
Ewa (beans) - Egwa
Ku (die) - Kwu
Gun (pound) - Gwu
Ekun (cry) - Ekwu
Oogun (sweat) - Uugwu
Wɛ (wash/bath) - Gwɛ

Rule G*: Consonant mutation L to N
Oluku (friend) - Onukwu
Ile/Ale (land) - Ane
Ale (night) - Ane
Ala (dream) - Ona
Ola (tomorrow) - Ona

Rule A* + B*
Eriñ (four)- Ele
Oruñ (neck) - Olu
Iruñ (hair) - Ilo
Aruñ (five) - Alu
Oruñ (sun) - Olu
Eruru (ashes) - Elulu

Rule A* + C*
Esañ (nine) - Ela
Suñ (sleep) - Lu

Rule A* +D*
Eshiñshiñ (housefly) - Achichi

Rule A* + F*
Egunguñ (bone) - Ogwugwu
Iguñnu (vulture) - Ugwunu
Oguñ (twenty) - Ogwu

Rule A* +G*
Olokuñriñ (man) - Onokele
Olobiñriń (woman) - Onobule

Rule B* + C*
Sure (run/hasten) - Rule

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Other Minor differencess with irregular rules
Bayii (like this) - Abayii
Øbɛ (soup) - Øbø
Owo/Ogho (money) - Oko
Wo/Gho (look) - Go
Ijo (dance) - Ido
Monamona (lightening) - Omamañya
Oru (midnight) - Odu
Eru (slave) -Adu
Ehoro (rabbit) - Efolo
Adiye (hen) - Ajuwe
Akuko (coc.k) - Ayiko

And finally,False friend cognates
Yo in Yoruba = Fully fed
Yo in Igala = Plump / Fat

Du in Yoruba - To contest an object
Du in Igala - To take an object

Oyuñ in Yoruba = Pregnancy
Oyu in Igala = Fat

Ebo in Yoruba - Sacrifice
Ebo in Igala - Deity

Edø in Yoruba = Liver
Edø in Igala = Heart/Chest

Wewe in Yoruba = Pieces
Uwewe in igala = Many

ilɛ in Yoruba = Land abode
ilɛ in Igala = Earth


There are many countless words that are exactly the same in both languages and need no further elucidation, since we are focusing more on what has made the two languages different over time.
That being said, there are many other words too that are very different... Hence the reason why Igala shares approximately only about 64% or so word cognates with the General Yoruba we speak. The 40% that do not align between both is already enough to make inter-comprehension between both very hard... The biggest chunk of non Yoruboid words in Igala is from the neighbouring Idoma according to some research.

With this, I would give a Yoruba - give or take 6 months to master this language under complete exposure like going to live in Idah or Dekina.

Yoruba is Igala Pro Max. Once you master the grammatical rule of thumb in the formula required to convert from one dialect gloss to the other gloss ... you will master the language sharply.

You've tried
I'm a yorruba man and I live here in Ankpa

Igala very close to Yoruba

Lol

SmellyNyash:

He foolishly told obj to support him but instead, Obasanjo started laughing at his foolishness

Your yansh dey smell too much
Try dey use dettol

Jennifer663:
Tinubu is lagging behind in all affairs!

Jennibabe

LoveTalk:
My childhood ambition = Lawyer

Studied= Political science.

Working as Chef

Chef Lovetalk

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muykem:
Incoming president of Federal Republic of Nigeria.

President go too fit am

HBD spoiler of Nigeria

Islandlady:
TIWA SAVAGE

She is the most beautiful Nigerian singer, with makeup or without makeup! Even as she is over 40yrs she still looks more beautiful everyday! I love her height and skin colour! She represent true African beauty!

I love her songs too!

Abeg, this is my opinion and analysis... you might disagree or not!

Tiwa Babe too makes sense. . Respect to you babe for this post

Jennifer663:
I guess am done with this conversation!

Ok dear

Jennifer663:
I don't deal with people like you!

Hmmm and you gonna like me seriously Jenny baby...ah go spoil you with money

Jennifer663:
Don't be too hard on yourself!

Be my babe now

Jennifer663:
You are still small to talk about politics....
Try to act matured even though you weren't trained!

You know nothing about politics and your repackaged Obi

Your Emotions keep controlling you

Stop being childish girl

Or you need my long Prick this morning... I'm at your doorstep Olosho

Jennifer663:
Who cares...
If you guys don't have what to eat today..
Dm...Obi can help you and your family.

I see
Obi has been your frail family source of meal on the daily basis

I rest

I can see why you wanna die Zombidiend

Jennifer663:
Your deranged family i guess.

Olosho FAMILY you represent is always mentally Derailed. ObidiEND.. ZOMBIES GROUP

Jennifer663:
Peter Obi for everyone!

For you and your olosho family

obi4eze:
If he likes let him meet Lucifer, Peter Obi is the next President of Nigeria.

Only greedy, wicked people will vote Tinubu who has nothing to offer.

2023 is the time to make Nigeria better and Peter Obi is the best option at the moment.

Go and bet with Deji Adeyanju if e sure for you

Coolsperm:
Are you sure he is an Aboki, he looks more like a local Yoruba Muslim , the enjoy skull mining and petty thiefing

Ewure meh meh

OkpaNsukkaisBae:



e no sweet.

And you listened to d end.. very sweet melody

GorillaApp:
Who among them isn't fighting for his ambition? Is it emi lo kan or the other one who stays in Dubai?
None of them is a saint. No one is perfect but in all honesty, Obi seems the lesser devil than the others
Man is younger( more energetic), someone who loves knowledge.
Let's try something different this time

You are very constructive in your argument
And you are totally right but I prefer Sowore to Obi because of Obi's lies and he lies because he wants to win Election. Sowore has all the characteristics you mentioned above in favor of Obi and additionally Sowore is fearless and he's brave to take decisions....Nigeria needs iron hand

Chicagoesontop:
Negeria needs a new hand, a younger one at that .. Obi is a possibility .

And Kenya will turn UK....lol

Your Obi is even fighting for his Ambition

Ipig thinking

Rashford Agric Striker..
Man U gonna relegate this season

IPOB everywhere

iCauseTrouble:
But why is the wife looking like housemaid?

Marry fess you will understand better

You think marriage is all about the movies you watch

Felimax:
Good for you guys!
Gradually giving you back your country by God's grace.

Abi

Who will serve this Taylor red card self