₦airaland Forum

Ngozi123:
@cheruv, you might know the answer to this question that that Ika guy refused to answer.

Cire80:
And Ika being the generic name for Anioma doesn't necessarily mean Ika was the dominant language but there are many Ika words in all the Anioma languages. It's this shared words that aids easier intelligibility even though our intonation is completely different. [s]Ika is leaned more towards Bini while Ukwani is lean more towards Urhobo and Enuani is mixture of Ika and Igbo with more Igboid intonation among the groups[/s].

cheruv:
We know you're Bini but take it easy with the misinformation abeg...so the presence of a few Bini and Sobo settlers now means that ika and ukwùani now leans towards them?

cheruv:
He's correct on that premise...we're all called ika Igbos before and during the war. After the war,the name gradually came to be used on the clans inhabiting the Western parts of Anioma. Here's a 1931 map of the tribes in Igboland backing that up....thats why we laugh to scorn those of them who woke up after the war to claim they're now Bini

Cire80:
Have you been to Abudu? I'm not saying Abudu is Ika but they speak Ika.

Cire80:
OK. Let's forget about Ika. Ukwani and Urhobo is the same intonation.

cheruv:
See...of all the LGs in Edo state orhiomwon is the one am most interested in bkos of two reasons
1]it surrounds the ika part of delta on almost three sides..only the Eastern border of Ali Ika is with the Enu Ani
2]almost 80% of ika communities outside delta are located in orhiomwon. Igbo-akri(igbanke) that is struggling to have its own LG is located here.

Since you claim that communities there even up to Abudu speak ika, why are they then marginalizing the ika still found in Edo state??
Why are the Bini trying to erase the language and culture of the ika still in Edo and replace them with Bini ones?

cheruv:
Said who
Can you explain what you mean by that?

there's nothing like Ika Igbo. That was added by desperate Igbos

If Ika obviously was Igbo, why did they have to indicate it there when it was never part of our name?

Ika has never been under the Igbo even from the colonial era[\quote]
You're talking as if we built an imperial state...unlike your Bini people, we Igbos never built an empire.every clan lived as they saw fit without interference from others. The only Igbo tribe that tried to build an empire were the Aro,but their Confederacy was destroyed by the Brits in the Anglo-Aro war of 1902

[quote]If I'm talking about history I don't like to involve anything European reports because it's always full of errors of completely changing people's name, village names and words. You read some of these their book and have to be the one guessing what they're talking about

Cire80:
Have you been to Abudu? I'm not saying Abudu is Ika but they speak Ika.

Cire80:
[s]you're obviously from one of those Eastern States[/s]. I don't involve in Edo politics but what do you mean Bini is trying to erase their language and culture? These communities were originally more Edoid than they are now, including Igbanke.

And please there's nothing like Igbo Akiri. It's Igbanke and it was derived from the two biggest igbanke villages of Igbontor and Ake. Please even if you're desperate to claim them, respect their names. Igbo Akiri sounds offensive.

BornStunner1:
ABUDU DO NOT SPEAK IKA...... WTF IS IKA?

IGBANKE PEOPLE THAT ARE CHANGING THIER NAMES TO EDO NAMES BCUS OF SERIOUS INFLUENCE OF BENIN LANGUAGE

BENIN LANGUAGE IS NOW EVEN SPOKEN IN ANIOMA VILLAGES IN DELTA




DO NOT SAY WAT U KNOW NOTHING ABOUT

http://gloriaadagbon..com/2011/04/igbanke-forgotten-minority-in-edo-state.html

cheruv:
Cire80...you can see that your Bini brother has substantiated my claims

hammerF:
Does anybody now know wat Eweka means in Benin? I am still waiting Oooo!

Emeka abi na Iweka was the name of the first Oba of Benin. He was Igbo.

gregyboy:
guy i told u b4 it gat no meaning its a slang wic was convert to a name or if u chooae not to believe me come to benin and ask for the book izoduwa or idoduwa or still gogle the name

BornStunner1:
EWEKA MEANS DO NOT SLEEP FOR LONG

ITS BROKEN DOWN AS >> É WIE KÀ

É WIE - MEANS DO NOT SLEEP

KÄ - MEANS TO DRY IN THIS CONTEXT IT MEANS FOR LONG!

GIVEN THE INTRIGUES OF THE PALACE AT THAT TIME ITS NO WONDER HE WAS NAMED SO!!

BornStunner1 post=52625853:


[s][s]EWEKA MEANS DO NOT SLEEP FOR LONG

ITS BROKEN DOWN AS >> É WIE KÀ

É WIE - MEANS DO NOT SLEEP

KÄ - MEANS TO DRY IN THIS CONTEXT IT MEANS FOR LONG!

GIVEN THE INTRIGUES OF THE PALACE AT THAT TIME ITS NO WONDER HE WAS NAMED SO!!
[/s][/s]

Cire80:
The oneness is recent? Lol. No need responding to this. What do you know about Oko? Oko that I know are greatly Igala. Even more Igala than Asaba.

hammerF:
Does anybody now know wat Eweka means in Benin? I am still waiting Oooo!

Emeka abi na Iweka was the name of the first Oba of Benin. He was Igbo.

BornStunner1:
ABUDU DO NOT SPEAK IKA...... WTF IS IKA?

IGBANKE PEOPLE THAT ARE CHANGING THIER NAMES TO EDO NAMES BCUS OF SERIOUS INFLUENCE OF BENIN LANGUAGE

BENIN LANGUAGE IS NOW EVEN SPOKEN IN ANIOMA VILLAGES IN DELTA




DO NOT SAY WAT U KNOW NOTHING ABOUT

http://gloriaadagbon..com/2011/04/igbanke-forgotten-minority-in-edo-state.html

RedboneSmith:
And what do you know about Ogbaru? You think it is only in Anioma that you have communities with some Bini or Igala elements? Go to the southeast, especially Anambra and Enugu and ask them about their history, and you'll be surprised how many communities have Igala roots.

Ossomala and Oko are brothers, with Oko being the elder brother. Ask any Oko man about what i have just written. Oko and Ossomala share much more kinship than Oko and Agbor will ever share. Anioma oneness is recent and artificial.

cheruv:
Cire80...you can see that your Bini brother has substantiated my claims

Cire80:
That one doesn't know anything. My Abudu friends say we're all one and they speak our language. But I'm not claiming Abudu to be an Ika community because I don't know their history.

Cire80:
Abudu doesn't speak Ika? And Bini language is now spoken in Anioma villages in Delta? You sound so ignorant. No need arguing with you.

gregyboy:
you are forming meaning to it my friend am a benin most names our ancestor bear then only few we could read meaning to unlike in the present age nw when u hear names and understand thier meaning

KingOvoramwen1:
gregyboy YOU ARE NOT BENIN!!

IF YOU WERE U WOULD KNOW BORNSTUNNER1 IS RIGHT!!

DO NOT TALK WAT U KNOW NOTHING ABOUT!!

BornStunner1:




DONT MIND DAT ONE WHO DOESNT EVEN KNOW THE MEANING OF HIS SURNAME!!

HE IS OBVIOUSLY LOST!!

HAHAHAHAHA JESUS!! WTF

KingOvoramwen1:
YOU ARE NOT BENIN!!

IF YOU WERE U WOULD KNOW BORNSTUNNER1 IS RIGHT!!

DO NOT TALK WAT U KNOW NOTHING ABOUT!!

Cire80:
Who's this one? Do you know the distance between Abudu and Ogan, Owa, Iru and other Ika speaking parts of Edo? In my first comment, I made it clear that some of these communities are bilingual and some speak Ika as a second language. I've been to many of these Ika speaking communities in Edo. I've never been to Abudu but I have friends from there that speak Ika and they said they speak Ika in their place.

Cire80:
NB:I'm not claiming any of these communities as Ika. My point is that some places in Edo speak and understand Ika some speak Ika and Bini either more of Bini or more of Ika while some only understand little Ika. I've been with people from this area.