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christopher123:
Ukwuani is not Igbo but please you have made yourself defender of the identity crises now help us cos we are confused here

What is the meaning of ukwuani
What do you call God
What do you call come go then what do you calk land ..what do you call king ..what do you call woman ..what do you call plate ..what do you call food ..what do you call goat fowl etc ...what do you call plate yam cassava corn

I will be interested to know the word for masqurade etc

I will be interested to learn the language

They are not igbos I agree but can you tell me the ukwuani language of these things..then we can proceed accordingly

Ukwuani 101

Ukwuani means lowland,delta; literally "foot land" as contrasted with enu ani(upland)
God is Chukwu, from Chi ukwu
come is bia
go is je
king is eze
woman is onyenye
plate is afele
food is nli
masquerade is mmanwu
fowl is okuku
goat is ewu
yam is iji
cassava is akpu, manaika(obviuosly of portuguese origin)
corn is oka

People need education

obuus:
Ukwuani means lowland,delta; literally "foot land" as contrasted with enu ani(upland)
God is Chukwu, from Chi ukwu
come is bia
go is je
king is eze
woman is onyenye
plate is afele
food is nli
masquerade is mmanwu
fowl is okuku
goat is ewu
yam is iji
cassava is akpu, manaika(obviuosly of portuguese origin)
corn is oka

People need education

pls re u from ukwuani or frm the east of the niger?
Cos we need ukwuani pple to attempt to those questions'?

Cos i still wonder how those words turned to benin languages?
Maybe ishilove will help us out...

Tanx for the igbo meaning of those words.
One love...

emmysoftyou:
pls re u from ukwuani or frm the east of the niger?
Cos we need ukwuani pple to attempt to those questions'?

Cos i still wonder how those words turned to benin languages?
Maybe ishilove will help us out...

Tanx for the igbo meaning of those words.
One love...

I have some stuff on the traditions of origin of the Ukwuani, but it is lengthy.

Ishilove:
I have some stuff on the traditions of origin of the Ukwuani, but it is lengthy.

i dont mind seeing it, and i will love to know how igbos came in?

Babe,I wish u could share hun...

emmysoftyou:
pls re u from ukwuani or frm the east of the niger?
Cos we need ukwuani pple to attempt to those questions'?

Cos i still wonder how those words turned to benin languages?
Maybe ishilove will help us out...

Tanx for the igbo meaning of those words.
One love...

Yea. I am from Ukwuani LGA. West of the Niger. The words are Igbo because they are first Ukwuani!

obuus:
Yea. I am from Ukwuani LGA. West of the Niger. The words are Igbo because they are first Ukwuani!

What exactly does 'the words are Igbo because they are first Ukwuani' mean?

Radoillo:
What exactly does 'the words are Igbo because they are first Ukwuani' mean?

Ukwuani words are basically Igbo words. Ukwuani is an Igbo dialect. kpomkwem.Period!

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christopher123:
Don't you get it....I believe that you must be just draft ....I told you. Give me translatio . Of ukwuani language of any word and your culture let me know if I can trace Benin from it.....


Is that hard....I laugh...you made my vacation easier....the way you think its petty .you just think clanish.I am in Europe now and I see how eastern countries come to join europe but you were or are here been clanish ..instead of coming together as an Igbo

I know that you are afraid of been pure Igbo cos you might not meet up with Igbo standard of hard working so you take refuge in nonigbo thing....


Wish you luck

Pure Igbo I am
My wife pure Igbo from ogume


Now go and rest in peace


I do not take you serious nor any ukwuani that disclaims Igbo


I will only listen to elders and kings of ukwuani not you

christopher123:
Don't you get it....I believe that you must be just draft ....I told you. Give me translatio . Of ukwuani language of any word and your culture let me know if I can trace Benin from it.....


Is that hard....I laugh...you made my vacation easier....the way you think its petty .you just think clanish.I am in Europe now and I see how eastern countries come to join europe but you were or are here been clanish ..instead of coming together as an Igbo

I know that you are afraid of been pure Igbo cos you might not meet up with Igbo standard of hard working so you take refuge in nonigbo thing....


Wish you luck

Pure Igbo I am
My wife pure Igbo from ogume


Now go and rest in peace


I do not take you serious nor any ukwuani that disclaims Igbo


I will only listen to elders and kings of ukwuani not you

christopher123:
Don't you get it....I believe that you must be just draft ....I told you. Give me translatio . Of ukwuani language of any word and your culture let me know if I can trace Benin from it.....


Is that hard....I laugh...you made my vacation easier....the way you think its petty .you just think clanish.I am in Europe now and I see how eastern countries come to join europe but you were or are here been clanish ..instead of coming together as an Igbo

I know that you are afraid of been pure Igbo cos you might not meet up with Igbo standard of hard working so you take refuge in nonigbo thing....


Wish you luck

Pure Igbo I am
My wife pure Igbo from ogume


Now go and rest in peace


I do not take you serious nor any ukwuani that disclaims Igbo


I will only listen to elders and kings of ukwuani not you

My Mom is from Oguma village in Ugwuta/Oguta, Imo State

nellagold:
Hello house. I want to contribute. Ukwani people are no igbo. Am an ogume woman, when I speak non of d igbos would understand me. Most of us have bini names. My father's name is ikuni(which is not an ibo name) my elder brother's name is esuoba,ojomo(which is not an ibo name) sometimes wen we want to tell u mbene(meaning thank u) then d ijaws in bayelsa uses mbana meaning thank u also. We greet aje and otofe. We also use bini attire during our traditional wedding! We use nwenete wen we want to say my kid brother or my kid sister. So we are not ibos.

Oguma is the name of a village in Oguta, Imo State. Mbona means thank you in Oguta. Egbema people say Mbola. Gbonu is sorry. I think some Delta state people say Gbenu. Abagworo has also told you about Aje and Otofe

that is nice, do we have oguma in uguta, we have ogume in ukwuani

and ukwuani and uguta are related

Phut:
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My Mom is from Oguma village in Ugwuta/Oguta, Imo State

christopher123:
that is nice, do we have oguma in uguta, we have ogume in ukwuani

and ukwuani and uguta are related

Yes there is. Someone also mentioned that Nwadei is a popular name in Delta state. Well in Uguta, we have Umudei village. The Kingship line runs through them. Dei must have been a very important man

ogiye:
You are not Ukwuani. if you want to know anything about ukwuani send me you Email. Before it is a practice but has been abolished yet it still hold grounds secretly in some pocket families that they forbit to marry an Ibo. sometimes referred as bended or bent people. I did not read that in the internet. It happened to me. It is good you knew that Ukwuani has different clans, but tell me why is it so? why does Ukwuani have different clans that speaks Ukwuani language. reason well. if different clans speaks one language what will you call them? will you call them by the name of their language or the name of the language that resembles their own?

first pls answer me

what is the meaning of ukwuani
what is the meaning of oteofe
what is the market days called
what is the name of land
what is the name of God
all these in ukwuani language

then let us know if they are Igbo

in short call any name in ukwuani then give us the English translation

this will be a pointer

wesley80:
So why didnt they just answer Mbaise? Why Aboh Mbaise? Ever heard of Aboh-Orogun in delta state?Another town founded by Abohs? Fact may be watery, Yeah but it is fact nontheless!

wake up

aboh is a common Igbo name of towns just like onicha and owerre

these are names of towns found in the whole Igbo land so don't bring in that point

at what point did aboh colonise others

Phut:
Yes there is. Someone also mentioned that Nwadei is a popular name in Delta state. Well in Uguta, we have Umudei village. The Kingship line runs through them. Dei must have been a very important man

ok

I am impressed, yopu can see that these ukwuani are not igbo people are either confused or that they are stupid

Phut:
Yes there is. Someone also mentioned that Nwadei is a popular name in Delta state. Well in Uguta, we have Umudei village. The Kingship line runs through them. Dei must have been a very important man

often times I marvel at the way people just make submissions on subjects they know little or nothing about. Ukwuani people and the Igbo's do not have a common ancestry, they don't share the same cultural or traditional practices, they don't share the same cultural values they don't even have similar physical attributes. the similarities in language are even very minimal so I wonder why people want to just throw a bunch of people together and say they are one on the basis of slight similarity in language. calling an Ukwuani man Igbo is tantamount to Calling a Fulani man Housa or calling an Itshekiri man Yoruba because they bear similar names or speak similar languages. No one can tell the history of a people better than the people themselves

ndlane:
Ukwuani people and the Igbo's do not have a common ancestry,

Lie. Yes, some Ukwuani claim Bini origin. But don't lie and say some don't also claim Igbo origin. Some southeast Igbo also claim Bini or even Igala or Ibibio origin. So arguing by origin will be just wasting your time.

They don't share the same cultural or traditional practices, they don't share the same cultural values

Lie. Lie. You can only tell this lie to someone who hasn't looked into Ukwuani culture. The defining cultural elements are the same with their kin in the east. Every group within the Igbo nation has some unique attributes that set them apart. Uratta has unique attribites from Nsukka, and so on. Ukwuani too should have its own unique cultural attributes.

they don't even have similar physical attributes.

Hian. What does physical attributes mean again. Ukwuani people look different physically from Igbo people? The Ukwuani people that i have seen or another one. Biko, explain.

the similarities in language are even very minimal so I wonder why people want to just throw a bunch of people together and say they are one on the basis of slight similarity in language.

Lie. Lie. Hay God, how can someone lie like this? The similarity is not slight or minimal anything. Stop lying. An honest Ukwuani man would tell you you are lying as far as lanhuage similarity is concerned. It is NOT minimal. Stop.

calling an Ukwuani man Igbo is tantamount to Calling a Fulani man Housa

No it is not. The Fulani have their own language, Fulfude which is nothing like Hausa language. Do you have yoir own language which is nothing like Igbo language?

or calling an Itshekiri man Yoruba because they bear similar names or speak similar languages.

The only point in this entire comment. Now I will give you the answer. Yoruba ethnicity is defined different from Igbo ethnicity. To be yoruba, two requirements are required to be met. One, that you have a royal line that claims Oduduwa descent. Two, that you claim origin from Ile-Ife. Language is not that important to be Yoruba. That is why Akoko-Ondo people who have their own non-Yoruba language can be Yoruba, because they claim Ife origin.
To be Igbo you only need to meet one standard. Speak one of the many variants of the language. Does Ukwuani meet that standard, yes.

No one can tell the history of a people better than the people themselves

This is not about history. Every Igbo group get their own history.

Ukwani people are not Igbo.

RedboneSmith:
Lie. Yes, some Ukwuani claim Bini origin. But don't lie and say some don't also claim Igbo origin. Some southeast Igbo also claim Bini or even Igala or Ibibio origin. So arguing by origin will be just wasting your time.


Lie. Lie. You can only tell this lie to someone who hasn't looked into Ukwuani culture. The defining cultural elements are the same with their kin in the east. Every group within the Igbo nation has some unique attributes that set them apart. Uratta has unique attribites from Nsukka, and so on. Ukwuani too should have its own unique cultural attributes.

Hian. What does physical attributes mean again. Ukwuani people look different physically from Igbo people? The Ukwuani people that i have seen or another one. Biko, explain.

Lie. Lie. Hay God, how can someone lie like this? The similarity is not slight or minimal anything. Stop lying. An honest Ukwuani man would tell you you are lying as far as lanhuage similarity is concerned. It is NOT minimal. Stop.

No it is not. The Fulani have their own language, Fulfude which is nothing like Hausa language. Do you have yoir own language which is nothing like Igbo language?

The only point in this entire comment. Now I will give you the answer. Yoruba ethnicity is defined different from Igbo ethnicity. To be yoruba, two requirements are required to be met. One, that you have a royal line that claims Oduduwa descent. Two, that you claim origin from Ile-Ife. Language is not that important to be Yoruba. That is why Akoko-Ondo people who have their own non-Yoruba language can be Yoruba, because they claim Ife origin.
To be Igbo you only need to meet one standard. Speak one of the many variants of the language. Does Ukwuani meet that standard, yes.

This is not about history. Every Igbo group get their own history.

Who makes you the determiner of what it takes to be Igbo it Yoruba? Did you consult the Ukwani before making such?

ehikwe22:
Who makes you the determiner of what it takes to be Igbo it Yoruba? Did you consult the Ukwani before making such?

Did anyone consult Ezza, Nkanu, Ngwa, etc before deciding that they are Igbos? They woke up one morning and found that modern anthropologists have classified them as such based on language similarities.

Did someone consult you before deciding that you are a mammal? You went to school one day and your science teacher told you you are a mammal based on similarities with other animals in that category.

You are Ika, as is clear by your name. Do you mind leaving this discussion for Ukwuani and southeasterners as it doesn't really concern you.

Anyway i don't even care what Ukwuani say they are. It is when they start lying and saying that their language has only slight similarity with igbo, and that their culture is completely different that I feel someone has to step up and tell them the truth.

RedboneSmith:
Did anyone consult Ezza, Nkanu, Ngwa, etc before deciding that they are Igbos? They woke up one morning and found that modern anthropologists have classified them as such based on language similarities.

Did someone consult you before deciding that you are a mammal? You went to school one day and your science teacher told you you are a mammal based on similarities with other animals in that category.

You are Ika, as is clear by your name. Do you mind leaving this discussion for Ukwuani and southeasterners as it doesn't really concern you.

I quoted you because of your double standard concerning Anioma and Itsekiri. Everybody has right to self determination. if you claim your right to have Biafra, same way Anioma claim for a right to an ethnic identity. now you have more right in a thread that concerns Anioma more than me? you're senseless.

ehikwe22:
I quoted you because of your double standard concerning Anioma and Itsekiri. Everybody has right to self determination. if you claim your right to have Biafra, same way Anioma claim for a right to an ethnic identity. now you have more right in a thread that concerns Anioma more than me? you're senseless.

Only a senseless person can call someone who has made a valid point senseless.

ehikwe22:
I quoted you because of your double standard concerning Anioma and Itsekiri. Everybody has right to self determination. if you claim your right to have Biafra, same way Anioma claim for a right to an ethnic identity. now you have more right in a thread that concerns Anioma more than me? you're senseless.

Biafra? What is Biafra doing in this thread? Who brought Biafra into this? What is the connection between a political aspiration (Biafra) and a language group (Igbo)? Who is senseless here? Please get a-moving. Anioma is an artificial quasi-political union, not an ethnic group. When we want to address the whole Anioma, we will look for you, this is about Ukwuani alone and their so-called Igboness, and as I said, it doesn't concern your ika or the rest of anioma. Get a-moving.

Kx:
Though we understand almost everything
the ibo man says,and they code us a bit when we speak,
Ukwuani ppl are not ibo.

I guess ur question stems from the similarity of the spoken word.
Here is an example.
Rivers and Ikwerre calls spoon ngangi,ibo calls spoon nganji.ukwuani calls it ngaji
Ikwerre calls plate fara,ibo calls it afare,ukwuani calls it efele

Can we then conclude from that similarity in language dat ikwerre ppl
in rivers are ibos?

same goes for ukwuani and ibos,they aint ibos.just my humble opinion.

YOU'RE WRONG, IN CENTRAL IGBO, spoon is called Ngaji

Duncan Mighty also called it Ngaji on his song

Afonjas:
YOU'RE WRONG, IN CENTRAL IGBO, spoon is called Ngaji

Duncan Mighty also called it Ngaji on his song

Not only that. He spoke like the entire SE is a monolithic group that have same word for spoon. Such ignorance.

This Ehikwe is an idiot. very very ignorant. it seems his skull is a sap. he lacks the ability to comprehend. always jumping to conclusions like a fool. so silly and annoying.

Kx:
Though we understand almost everything
the ibo man says,and they code us a bit when we speak,
Ukwuani ppl are not ibo.

I guess ur question stems from the similarity of the spoken word.
Here is an example.
Rivers and Ikwerre calls spoon ngangi,ibo calls spoon nganji.ukwuani calls it ngaji
Ikwerre calls plate fara,ibo calls it afare,ukwuani calls it efele

Can we then conclude from that similarity in language dat ikwerre ppl
in rivers are ibos?

same goes for ukwuani and ibos,they aint ibos.just my humble opinion.

a very silly analogy.

The S.E is not a monolithic group. it's only a geo political representation!
in my own Igbo dialect from Owerri, we call plate "efere", my mom's side calls it " efele". Not all the Igbo's found in the S.E speak the same dialect! as some Anioma claim some origins so is the case in S.E... so is the case in many nations!
No nation is homogenous by origin!

Anambra calls Efere "Efele"
my part of the S.E dont say Nganji!
it doesn't sound like the way the Ukwuani calls theirs but we say Ngaji! what's different between both is how they pronounce it!

The moment you are looking for anything thing that would differ you from your ancestral home. This lies been dully been from ages to ages and would still continue after my generation cos the goverment are not making it easy.

Even the Binis will tag along with yoroubas whenever its called for but my Rivers brothers will say there is slight diffrence in language that makes them non igbos. U need to travel to core Nsukka state, Agwu in Enugu,Abiriba in Abia and some Places in Imo state.This people speaks their own version of igbo language diffrent from the igbo izugbe and yet non is complaining of his tribal identity. What i want to know is ...is this identity crises a problem before Biafran war.. cos it seems no writer has ever bothered to write about Ukwuani till after the war.

IS UKWUANI PEOPLE IGBO........WHAT IS UKWU AND WHAT IS ANI IN UR LANGUAGE........KEEP DIVIDING UR SELVES....... TOMORROW U WILL ASK IF EMEKA IS IGBO LANGUAGE

What you fail to understand is that the number one criterion for membership of an ethnic group(amidst other criteria ) is SELF identification.
The Aros have slightly different ancestry from the NRI descendants but have the right to identify themselves as IGBOS.
In the same manner, other groups that feel they are slightly different in ancestry/culture/History or political past from the NRI descendants have the right to claim they are NOT IGBOS and this right should be respected without name calling or insults from Igbos who wish them to identify as Igbos and be pround of their Igboness

EzeUche2:
Wrong. English is a different language from Welsh. Welsh is a Celtic language, while English is a Germanic language. There are no similarities.

You therefore used a wrong example.

Cantonese is a dialect of the Yue branch of Chinese, and Mandarin is also part of the Chinese language family as well, so you do not know what you are talking about.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Map_of_sinitic_languages-en.svg/267px-Map_of_sinitic_languages-en.svg.png

Ukwuani is part of the Igbooid languages. Even a non-Igbo will say that Ukwuani is clearly Igbo. Do you know what Ukwuani means? It is clearly Igbo. And it means the same thing even in my own Aro dialect. Who cares you do not share the same culture. You still speak Igbo. My culture is probably more mixed than any Igbo clans, but we still see ourselves Igbo even though the Aro Igbo are thoroughly mixed with Ibibio.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Nigeria_linguistic_1979.jpg/350px-Nigeria_linguistic_1979.jpg

Then the guy is right, Igbos(or at least some part) might have descended from Ukwuani or both Igbos and Ukwuanis may share some degree of ancestry.

christopher123:
I have ukwuani wife and thanks you have made my day

Most of these word you said are just too Igbo especially the girl is mgbotor and you lied groundnut is opupa

In the area of thanks IMO say ndewo some anambra say dalu we in my side say deme.. youvaee that ukwuani is a dialect of Igbo


All you have said many like 90% are general Igbo but in old Igbo form that I can say due tithe fact that imo peeps use the is. I was born there

I think that ukwuani is the Un evolved Igbo languge