₦airaland Forum

EngrKemp:
They never abandoned their language..
Their language is ibani ijaw..
Look at their names , all their names are ijaw names ... Their surnames are all ijaw names.
Go to the north, they all speak Hausa but does that make them all Hausa? No.
Ibb speaks Hausa as a northerner but he is Nupe by tribe and not Hausa...
Igbo was picked up as language of trade
The ibani ijaws traded directly with the Europeans and now take the trades to hinterland..
They had to speak their language..
They hinterland ppl could not speak English so ibani ijaw people spoke in their language,made trade and did not allow them understand or speak with oyibos...don't forget, they were the slaves traded too so u wouldn't want ur slaves speaking or understanding ur language...it's more safet they don't do u don't get issues dealing with them ..
The Igbo slaves were spoken to them in language they could understand which was Igbo while ibani was the language of nobles and free men not to be spoken in public so the slaves never had to pick it ..
If slaves were being searched ,maybe they tried to run ,once such a person is caught,to be certain,ibani would be spoken hence he wouldn't understand then he would be arrested..
Further more, it became a language of trade just like Hausa, English, or pidgin ..
But still till tomorrow,ibani is spoken in Bonny and Opobo.
Go to finima both in Bonny and Opobo,the speak ibani,
Brown house in Opobo and Bonny speak ibani, toby same thing.
All villages speak ibani.
They only place u hear Igbo spoken is on ubani. Becos of trade...

Chnbanc:
abeg pix of people.
I learnt that their women are beautiful.

paramakina202:
Was Ijaw the only tribe that traded with Igbo?
We traded with Efik,Ibibio and other neighbours,why are they not speaking Igbo?
Arochukwu man for 'example' once he finds himself in Rivers state will change his name to tamuno but maintian his Igbo language then Ijaw people will claim he is an Ijawman.Even the Chief in that video confessed that none of them can speak Ibani language.
You are forcing a dead language to a reluctant population who already have a mother tongue they speaks and pass it from generation to generation.

DataMina:
Why are you lieng through your teeth. You know quite well that Opobians speak Igbo through and through

EngrKemp:
Says a novice that knows nothing..
Igbos are Jews isn't it?

Opobo are ibani people...
ijaw root

paramakina202:
Who is disputing the fact that Opobians speaks Igbo as first language?

paramakina202:
Opobo indigenes will say his forefathers came from Igbo mainland but they are Ijaw due to political persecution and intimidation they suffered in the hands of Ijaw people who were in power in River state then.
Watch and listen to their confusion here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_V65jWBSMo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_BCF4IckX8&t=25s

DeadCountry:
So what made them Ijaw then? Nothing. A people speaking Igbo as their first language are ijaws? Don't mind those fools and their land grabbing tendencies.

paramakina202:
Opobians are being forced to de-Igbonize and accept Ijaw as their identity.That is what has been happening since the creation of Rivers state in 1967.

Neckpresser101:
you're absolutely right!


Thanks for putting the guy in his place



Alot of online liars!

paramakina202:
Who is disputing the fact that Opobians speaks Igbo as first language?

IDENNAA:
You misunderstood the guys post. You guys are saying the same thing.

Ijaw people has been of revisionists agender to claim coastal Igboid groups into their lean population but the wahala they are encountering is the Igbo language spoken by these people. The Ijaw is finding it difficult to change their language because Igbo is even spreading faster. Their Igbo is becoming even stronger while Ijaw has no central dialect. Ijaw people only use pigin English or English language to communicate.

DataMina:
You are a confused fellow

EngrKemp:
They never abandoned their language..
Their language is ibani ijaw..
Look at their names , all their names are ijaw names ... Their surnames are all ijaw names.
Go to the north, they all speak Hausa but does that make them all Hausa? No.
Ibb speaks Hausa as a northerner but he is Nupe by tribe and not Hausa...
Igbo was picked up as language of trade
The ibani ijaws traded directly with the Europeans and now take the trades to hinterland..
They had to speak their language..
They hinterland ppl could not speak English so ibani ijaw people spoke in their language,made trade and did not allow them understand or speak with oyibos...don't forget, they were the slaves traded too so u wouldn't want ur slaves speaking or understanding ur language...it's more safet they don't do u don't get issues dealing with them ..
The Igbo slaves were spoken to them in language they could understand which was Igbo while ibani was the language of nobles and free men not to be spoken in public so the slaves never had to pick it ..
If slaves were being searched ,maybe they tried to run ,once such a person is caught,to be certain,ibani would be spoken hence he wouldn't understand then he would be arrested..
Further more, it became a language of trade just like Hausa, English, or pidgin ..
But still till tomorrow,ibani is spoken in Bonny and Opobo.
Go to finima both in Bonny and Opobo,the speak ibani,
Brown house in Opobo and Bonny speak ibani, toby same thing.
All villages speak ibani.
They only place u hear Igbo spoken is on ubani. Becos of trade...