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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.

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.

purplekayc:
what does apruka means?

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

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

jboy73:
Its love.

There's nothing like "like" in Igbo

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

Radoillo:
What does 'Bekwele' mean?

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.

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

bigfrancis21:
Udo no full bar, nna!

A marodi m ezigbo afa yi. Kee afa yi?

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'?

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.

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.

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

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.

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"

StarFlux:
Una no dey tire :/ ọ̀gá is a Yoruba word. Disputing that is beyond ridiculous. Has nothing to do with ego.

The oyinbo threads are somewhat legitimate, but this really isn't. Nice troll bait though.

Ahon ni ipinle enu. It isn't funny at this point.

Phut: Free cocoa, I am new to the forum. Don't know how to post videos. But you can find video in the trend entitled: NFL player knocks out his fiancée. Video is in the original post. The trend is in the Family section (created by Shymexx) Or you can go to Tmz.com. The NFL player is Ray Rice

freecocoa: For reals? Link to vidoe please if you have.

cococandy: Like I said before in the other thread,I think they both got served.
She tasted near death
And he's tasting near career loss.
Seems sort of fair to me.

If she'd passed out for some days longer,it would have been fairest.
So that she can learn to keep her hands to herself in future when having a misunderstanding.

Why spit on him? To me that's unforgivable.
I'll never live with someone who's ever spat at me. That's what you do to disgusting shiit n scum.
I find it weird she's living with someone who disgusts her.

Now she's forming repentance.
Well I'm sure it'll be a while before she hits someone again.
Him too.