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I say, Chinedu Echeruo. He sold his company (hopstop.com) to Apple for 1 billion USD, plus he has his hands in a lot of other ventures and it's clean money too. And it's clean money too - not stolen through politicking or owning oil concessions

I replied your email, Maria.

Will send you some more information tomorrow

I replied your email, Maria.

Will send you some more information, tomorrow

Hi Maria,

I am female and I volunteer to teach you (no payment necessary).

My email is in my profile.

bigfrancis21:
Gbam. O suo nya ka ezigbo nwada Igbo. Nne sulu gaba, nna yi mulu yi!

Interpretation for Ishilove.

Gbam! You have spoken like a proper Igbo daughter. Nne, dey speak dey go, na your papa born you

musing2:
Right, I think we can round this off after B2mario's submission. As for people like phut who mentioned Igbo forums or platforms we should make use of, I recommend http://www.igboradio.com/. It's a website I've recently taken to visiting to learn Igbo, and it's open to donations. Anyone with other suggestions please mention them in this thread.

@B2mario, thanks for volunteering to write. By doing so at least we will get to have a different perspective of how a distinct Igbo language section may have been advantageous.

May I have your email address? There is some info I would like to send to you

musing2:
^^^bigfrancis21 The Idea i'm promoting is not about me learning Igbo. It's about a section where threads and posts, everything (or most of it) is done in Igbo. Where Igbo stories, and igbo videos, music, news, etc are shared, and even where the threads you've talked about could be located.
Thanks for your encouragement though , your points are noted musing2.

I am in favor of your idea, but instead of facing unnecessary opposition on Nairaland with creating an Igbo language section, why don't we make use of websites that have already been set up or geared towards that.

Many of those sites abound on the Internet. Their problem is low traffic. We could pick one and post any and all things Igbo to that site. Build it into an aggregator and repository of all things Igbo - have it safe for future generations.

Of course a well known Nairalander can always open a topic on Nairaland, with a link to that site. Those who choose can sign up to that site to post a comment.

A Nairalander (peteonline) had partially set up a website (igbovoices). Even if we decide not to use that, we can choose from the myriad Igbo websites, online

Nkwanta - little shoving match/ skirmish
Nganga (pronounced by some as inyanga) - it means to show off
Okoko - a stupid or foolish person
Otondo
Nshi man - a shitty man/person
Maja - to shake up a person
Onukwu- a timid/foolish person
Ogaranya shortened to Oga- means a rich person/boss

purplekayc:
what does apruka means?

Akpuruka -It means something that is solidly made or sturdy. From the root word, akpu

peteonline:
Copied from http://www.mymobnet.com/six-golden-rules-for-fing/

@peteonline: what happened to your website, igbovoices.com

peteonline:
Igbos can now join an Igbo forum by login in to www.igbovoice.com

What became of the website?

Someone created a forum like Nairaland or Facebook. It was an Igbo forum with all communications in Igbo - for the promotion of Igbo language and culture. The link was posted on Nairaland, a year or more ago. I actually visited the website, but Unfortunately, I have forgotten the address. Does anyone remember:
Bigfrancis21
Odumchi
Ezeagu
Radiollo
ChinenyeN

I am googling right now, to see if I can find the website. If I find it, I would say we build on what we already have, while continuing to promote Igbo Lang and culture on Nairaland as has been done in the past.

Apupa - Oguta dialect of Igbo language

jboy73:
Its love.

There's nothing like "like" in Igbo

That is wrong o. Masiri'm is like.

Ife yi masiri'm

O masiri'm

hahn:
Its time for African Americans to go back to Africa. Let them come back with the knowledge they've acquired there. The whites will always see them as niggers and nothing more. Afterall, no major invention has been accredited to them and most of them live off welfare

Most of them live off welfare

You are so wrong on that. Majority of welfare recipients are white. Stop believing the propaganda that you have been fed by the media.

This reminds me of what happened after Hurricane Katerina. When the film crew saw black victims of the hurricane taking much needed food (e.g. a loaf of bread) from an abandoned supermarket, the media said they were looting/stealing. However when white victims of the hurricane took food from the same supermarket, they were not called looters or thieves. They were said to be taking what they needed to survive. Go figure

OP, you had the responsibility to inform your sister once you saw what you saw on her husband's phone. Not telling her is tantamount to playing God (is she a child whom you have to shield from information that pertains to her, more than any other person in the world).

You are talking of an STI which hopefully is not one of the big diseases. But how would a person who keeps such information from his/her sibling feel, if the sibling contracts HIV during the period of their silence?

What if it was your brother and you saw similar information on his wife's phone? Would you have told? Why the different treatment because the sibling in question is your sister? It seems you are not 100 percent sure of where your loyalty lies.

And here you are on Nairaland still acting unsure as to what course of action to take/asking questions.

P.S. All these posters inferring things about your sister: You opened up yourself and your sister, to that

Radoillo:
What does 'Bekwele' mean?

Ibekwe/Ibekwele

bigfrancis21:
That was Onitsha Igbo.

Yep. Oguta and Onitsha all belong to the same group as Orumba in Anambra state and Ndoni (Peter Odili's town) in Rivers state.

Yippee! So Ndi na su ka'm juru?
Btw, Ogbaru o so kwa? Ezigbota oyi'm shi Ogbaru.
Goes off to google Orumba.

Radoillo:
A pasakwa m n'ogbe. Udo udo.

I ga pasa here, I ga tokwa here

bigfrancis21:
Udo no full bar, nna!

A marodi m ezigbo afa yi. Kee afa yi?

Which dialect is this? It's sounds very similar to Ugwuta/Oguta.

We say "Amadi'm" instead of "amaghi'm". And we say "Yi" instead of "Gi"

softwhispers:
This is soooo rich and thrilling!
Though l find Radoillo's dialect much easier to comprehend than ChinenyeN's!
@Radoillo, u must be a very crafty man in life.
Playing wonderful tricks with the Ibo phonology!!!
By the way, @ ChinenyeN, does 'N' stand for 'Njoku'?

You've got that right. Radiollo is, genius.

Radoillo:
Cool. You started with 'akwuna', and the 'kwa' and 'ette' sort of broke the pattern. Do you think you could make a sentence with just variations of 'kwu' and 'na'? Like this one:

Àkwùnà kwù n' ákwú nná Ákwúnnà

The prostitute is standing on the palm fruit belonging to Akwunna's father.

Thanks, mehn! This is hard.

Yours translates to: The prostitute is standing ... (can you please translate the rest?)

passion007:
í shì úzó Íshìúzó ì shìè úzó

If you go through the way to Isi Uzo (a LGA in Enugu), then you've lost your way.

Nice!!

Akwuna akwuna kwara akwa akwa-ette.

The prostitute sewed an outfit from akwa-ette fabric.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCTPMTy5M5A

Hey Carriacou, this is the video you were referring to, right?

Ugwuta dialect

Thank you - Mbona (Egbema people say Mbola?)

You = Yi in Ugwuta dialect and not Gi

No = Odi (we don't say Mba)

How is it going - O mena agha

What is your name - Gini bu afa yi?

Where are you going? - Onuzo ka i je?

Come here - Bia uzo na

Come out from there - Puta na uzo nu

Do you want to eat now? - I choro iri nni udu-udu (now now)

pkjag:
This definitely confirms the bantus had some contact with the Igbos, i am not sure about other nigerian tribes though

Also, like PhysicsQED stated, Umunna can also be used to signify, descendants

brainwave360:
That's interesting, you saw a similarity with the west African languages and I with yours but not with the west african ones.
The words you used are similar to the baSotho language words for the same thing (nguana and bana) and the omundu is similar to umuntu in the Nguni languages which in some places is pronounced as umundu, ndebeles and some swazi dialects do. Nwana is child in xiTsonga and chiVenda.
Someone mentioned before the Igbo(west african) equivalent is Nwa.

The words in Bukusu are definitely bantu, if you said[img][/img] them in South Africa we'd know what you were talking about because even the singular and plural follow the same logic or rhythm. Its amazing to see how the words have evolved like just looking at the words for elephant that I've seen in this thread which are jobo, joko, njoku, njogu, ndovu, ndlovu I would have never linked the first with the last, so depending on where you look you might not see that there's a link when there is.

I'm curious, there's a saying in South Africa umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu (a person is a person because of people). I'm curious to know how it would translate into Bukusu.

Nwa = Child in Igbo
Nwanna = Fathers child. Nna means father. When a person refers to u as Nwanna, it's like they are calling you their fathers child (sibling)

Umu = children in Igbo
Umunna = Father's children (i.e siblings)
Similar to Umundu is Nmadu (Igbo word for person)

engrkaz:
I sincerely can not prove which Nigerian language the word Oga actually originated from, as it readily blends with all Nigerian language.

My submission is somewhat comical, but for some reasons (perhaps to know the original roots from Nairalander's contributions), I will share them here...

Heard during the slave trade era, the slave masters had locals whose jobs were to organize the slaves, and the slave masters called them ORGANIZERS....this became too difficult for our people to pronounce, so they called them "ORGA" as this was much easier for them to handle. These "ORGAs" were men of authority and could act in the absence of the slave masters... Maybe that is why they say "OGA NA MASTER"

That is not the origin.

Oga is Igbo.

It is the shortened form of Ogaranya/ Ogalanya which means rich man/ boss in Igbo.
Check any Igbo dictionary. Morachi even referenced it in his song: I bu onye.