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Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by bigfrancis21: 2:21am On Oct 02, 2019
AgonyOfHell:


They keep mentioning it, giving link and even showing you screenshot from the state government website and you're pretending you're not seeing it.

How many places have you been to Akwa-Ibom?

Earlier when the European came to West Africa, they refer to us as ''Iboe'' and refer to the Akwai-Ibom people as ''Qua Iboe'' because of the close similarities.
Akwa-Ibom got its' name from QUA IBOE

Thank you. Qua means, 'just like' or 'similar to' or 'in the same capacity as' and Qua Iboe means 'Just like the Iboes', and this was because of the observed cultural similarity between the Ibo and Ibibio. In fact, the British observed that asides from the differences in language, the Ibo and Ibibio were mostly the same in all cultural ramifications.

A church still exists in Calabar called, Qua Ibo church.

http://quaiboechurchnig.wikifoundry.com/

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Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Nobody: 2:27am On Oct 02, 2019
YungMillionaire:


Calm down. Ikwerre is Igbo. Mind you I am not even Igbo. But there is no difference between Ikwerre and Igbo. Same thing. Even your name umuna is 100% Igbo and you are hearing making noise. Get sense now.
The guy dey para cheesy
I wrote that I understand Ikwerre more than afikpo e.g. edda abi eda. Their igbo is tough. Whenever, I'm with them, they use general igbo. Meanwhile just watching Ikwerre news on the telly or listening on radio, u will understand more than 80%.
If u go to òmòkù, it's easy breezy igbo.

I read that the separation and denial was as the aftermath of Nigeria civil war.

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Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by allcomage: 2:30am On Oct 02, 2019
bigfrancis21:


I'm just curious, how do these Igala/Idoma traders communicate with the natives of Enugu Ezike when they want to conduct trade?
All of them understand Igbo as their second language.

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Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by bigfrancis21: 2:44am On Oct 02, 2019
Blitz888:


The igalas i know in agulari may be settlers but the point is that we have igalas who are indiginous to Anambra. Atleast we both agree that Nzam folks speak igala and they are part of omambala..

Surprised you guys didn't notice the obvious distortion in how the name Anambra came about. Which one be Anam branch?

By the way i am from Oyi LGA and i speak and understand igala even as an Igbo man!

How did you learn Igala?

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Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by LegendHero(m): 2:51am On Oct 02, 2019
GodIsBiafran:


Guy you lie a lot. I notice you opened a new thread to spread your lies. We have exposed you! You are Yoruba, you other moniker is LegendHero. Stop deceiving people. There are indigenous Igbos in Akwa-Ibom!

When you lose the fight, you had to drag Yoruba to it to save face lol.

Typical mindset of a land grabbers, synonymous attitude with the Fulanis.

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Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Japhet31: 3:36am On Oct 02, 2019
Biafrannuke:
I pity who will take your write up serious

you just listed igala as a major language in Anambra. you even wrote it before Igbo.

listed ikwerre as a separate language from Igbo in Rivers. listed ika and ukwuani which are essentially Igbo dialects as separate from " Delta Igbo" but failed to note that egun is spoken in lagos. Also untonkon is a town in Benue not a language , their language is Igbo. The problem is that Nigerians grope proudly in institutionalized ignorance

And you who has created so many intellectual long-form writing for public consumption. What are you wallowing in my sir?

Even Official textbooks sold for curricula courses in schools do contain errors and maybe even some misinformations. That's amongst why textbook publishers and authors release [b]Edited versions [/b]of these materials periodically.


obiekunie2:


why are you even wasting your time with all these narratives - as if u dont know its a calculated plan to make the igbo language a minority language.

you should av noticed how he added igala to anambra state and even put it first as if they are the dominant language.

aside from that, you should av noticed how he did his very best to exclude igbo language from the entire south-south.

ndi uchu!


Maybe you just point his error(s) out and refer him to official (if available) sources to back your claim(s).
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Japhet31: 3:59am On Oct 02, 2019
midnighter:


i dont understand

I was referring to your moniker....
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Jidibia(m): 4:13am On Oct 02, 2019
Biafrannuke:
I pity who will take your write up serious

you just listed igala as a major language in Anambra. you even wrote it before Igbo.

listed ikwerre as a separate language from Igbo in Rivers. listed ika and ukwuani which are essentially Igbo dialects as separate from " Delta Igbo" but failed to note that egun is spoken in lagos. Also untonkon is a town in Benue not a language , their language is Igbo. The problem is that Nigerians grope proudly in institutionalized ignorance
And who told you that utonkon language is Igbo?

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Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Divine200: 4:51am On Oct 02, 2019
Very biased report

Op didn’t mention Urhobo as a language spoken and indigenous to bayelsa and Edo state.
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by umuna(m): 5:07am On Oct 02, 2019
sassysure:

The guy dey para cheesy
I wrote that I understand Ikwerre more than afikpo e.g. edda abi eda. Their igbo is tough. Whenever, I'm with them, they use general igbo. Meanwhile just watching Ikwerre news on the telly or listening on radio, u will understand more than 80%.
If u go to òmòkù, it's easy breezy igbo.

I read that the separation and denial was as the aftermath of Nigeria civil war.

I like you because you are being honest in your assertion, on like others. I think there most be something the major Igbo tribe did that they don't want to be associated with them. You said something about the civil war. I believe that should be where the problem started from!
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by LadyExcellency: 5:24am On Oct 02, 2019
omenka:
There is NOWHERE in Benue state where Igbo is predominantly spoken. You guys should stop spreading inaccurate information.

You have a good number of them as traders in Otukpo, Makurdi, Gboko and parts of Gwer East. They arent indigenous to any part of Benue state.


Is Fulani indigenous to any part of Nigeria?

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Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Juliearth(f): 5:24am On Oct 02, 2019
Nice one, op. I rep the Bachama people of Adamawa state. #oneNigeria

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Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Juliearth(f): 5:26am On Oct 02, 2019
Afamed:
Unity in cultural diversity




Our unity is a facade, but let's hope for the best.

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Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by haladu27(f): 5:55am On Oct 02, 2019
The op didn't know anything about Kaduna spoken languages as he just mentioned it d way he feels not on it hierarchy.....Bcus I see reasons minority will be named before d major speaking tongue?? E.g how could Gwandara dialect came before Numana, fansuwan, Aboro and Nandu?...and dat he or she is compromising the whole thing.
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by midnighter(f): 5:55am On Oct 02, 2019
Japhet31:


I was referring to your moniker....

Ok lol. you yourself chose to name yourself japhet. how many sons do you have?
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by haladu27(f): 6:02am On Oct 02, 2019
The op didn't know anything about Kaduna spoken languages as he just mentioned it d way he feels not on it hierarchy.....Bcus I see reasons minority will be named before d major speaking tongue?? E.g how could Gwandara dialect came before Numana, fansuwan, Aboro and Nandu?...and for such reasons, he or she is compromising the whole thing and passing d wrong information to d world.
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Biafrannuke: 6:07am On Oct 02, 2019
Egbi2020:

Point of correction, Untonkon in Benue state never speaks Igbo as their language .Untonkon is a name of a town and a language. My husband is an Untonkon man.please do your research well
what language does untonkon speak ? pls don't name their language after their town. that's silly.
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by FortuneDeGreat(m): 6:08am On Oct 02, 2019
semitunde:


Having states with artificial boundaries is common to all the states and not peculiar to Benue. It means that there might also areas that are supposed to culturally be part of Benue but have been included in Eboyin (being the newer state). Also, the areas in contention may perhaps, actually be indigenous to Benue but have igbo settlers as we have in many parts of the country.
Listen and listen good, in the case of those Igbos in benue there's nothing like modern migration and settlement because the place is their ancestral home, they've been living there as long as other tribes that constitute the present Benue state.
They're just unfortunate to be calved into a state in which they're homogeneous with others.

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Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Ekealterego: 6:14am On Oct 02, 2019
Psalm2423:


It is either you’re it or you’re not it. A French man would understand Canadian French, and vice-versa. But the both are not called French men even by tribe and not by nation. A Swiss German has a higher chance of understanding German than a German the chance of understanding Swiss German. Even when there’s “German” in “Swiss German,” you dare not called a Swiss “German.”

All this cultural stupidity we’re practicing won’t work. If you cannot understand a language, you can’t understand it! Ask the Itsekiris and the Yorubas. This is just a ploy by the Igbo people to claim different communities. All Deltans, I repeat all Deltans part from Asaba indigenes will never agree to be Igbo natives. If you want, you can put their head in a guillotine, they’ll still reject being Igbo men. In the North, I clearly can’t differentiate Fulani from Hausa language, I mix them up sometimes. The fact that they’re alike doesn’t mean that they’re the same. Just accept the fact that Ibo is Ibo, Ika is Ika, and Urhobo is Urhobo, and we’ll all have peace. The term dialect means “a variety of language differentiated by vocabulary and pronunciation, but grouped under one language for emphasis.” If we were to go by this definition, then the three languages in Nigeria are just names and they hold no ground. Thus, if one tribe doesn’t wish to be grouped under the same “language” as another for the white man’s sake, then they’re free to be called what they want.

After all, Nigeria was divided into three different languages due to the white man’s greed. Grade 2 history would tell you that.

grin Pardon any error found within the argument.
Your German analogy is wrong.. Whether in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, even in Northern Italy.. They are all referred to as "Ethnic Germans". Even within Germany, there are different dialects which were originally unintelligible, even up till today, e.g Bavarian.

Nationality can differ, politics, religion can differ but one thing they all cannot deny is their Germaness...
Although Germany as a country out of pride named themselves "Germany" to rub it in, but they are not the only ethnic Germans in Europe.

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Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Nobody: 6:15am On Oct 02, 2019
LegendHero:


When you lose the fight, you had to drag Yoruba to it to save face lol.

Typical mindset of a land grabbers, synonymous attitude with the Fulanis.


He didn't lose any fight?

You and your people what are you doing in Niger?

Are you guys suppose to be here before?

You guys rightfully belongs to Benin republic and Togo.


You can't claim to love people you have no common history in anyway more than your brothers over there rather highest u can do is to be planting division to feel at home which you doing.

That's hypocrisy....

Is high time Afenifere brings others in Benin republic and Togo under one Yoruba fold.


You guys are strangers here if not for Lord lugard.
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Mayor21(m): 6:30am On Oct 02, 2019
Kenturkey048:
Op,op,....ikom minor tribe for cross river state?
N Ikom man you be?
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by babyfaceafrica: 6:31am On Oct 02, 2019
Japhet31:


God bless you. This is what others should emulate. Do you have official source(s) for these tribes you mentioned? maybe the state government's website?


http://www.open-science-repository.com/the-tone-system-of-ikhin.html

https://m.guardian.ng/saturday-magazine/cover/the-barubas-one-people-two-countries/


https://www.ethnologue.com/language/BBA
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Biafrannuke: 6:33am On Oct 02, 2019
semitunde:


Having states with artificial boundaries is common to all the states and not peculiar to Benue. It means that there might also areas that are supposed to culturally be part of Benue but have been included in Eboyin (being the newer state). Also, the areas in contention may perhaps, actually be indigenous to Benue but have igbo settlers as we have in many parts of the country.
the indigenous Igbo population in Benue is not insignificant. it is considerable. a lot of idoma are also bilingual, speaking Igbo as a second language.

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Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by babyfaceafrica: 6:35am On Oct 02, 2019
Divine200:
Very biased report

Op didn’t mention Urhobo as a language spoken and indigenous to bayelsa and Edo state.
which villages in edospeaks urhobo?
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Biafrannuke: 6:39am On Oct 02, 2019
revolt:
read the history of onitsha. The original settlers...
next time if you know you can't substantiate a claim, don't make it at all.
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Biafrannuke: 6:40am On Oct 02, 2019
bigfrancis21:


I'm just curious, how do these Igala/Idoma traders communicate with the natives of Enugu Ezike when they want to conduct trade?
Ette have Igbos in the community too. the idoma there are bilingual.
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by centboy123456(m): 6:46am On Oct 02, 2019
caprini1:
There are igbo speaking Kogites very close to Anambra,i was amazed when i went there.

what is the name of the local government
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by centboy123456(m): 6:53am On Oct 02, 2019
Osagyefo98:



Language is not tribe.


There are no Igbos in cross river and Bayelsa.

If there are such, prove it or let them come and say so.


bro what u say self I have see people who speaks igbo that comes from the two states
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Sussan1(f): 6:58am On Oct 02, 2019
Biafrannuke:
I pity who will take your write up serious

you just listed igala as a major language in Anambra. you even wrote it before Igbo.

listed ikwerre as a separate language from Igbo in Rivers. listed ika and ukwuani which are essentially Igbo dialects as separate from " Delta Igbo" but failed to note that egun is spoken in lagos. Also untonkon is a town in Benue not a language , their language is Igbo. The problem is that Nigerians grope proudly in institutionalized ignorance
He did not list Igala before igbo, check well
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Owologbo(m): 7:01am On Oct 02, 2019
Biafrannuke:
I pity who will take your write up serious

you just listed igala as a major language in Anambra. you even wrote it before Igbo.

listed ikwerre as a separate language from Igbo in Rivers. listed ika and ukwuani which are essentially Igbo dialects as separate from " Delta Igbo" but failed to note that egun is spoken in lagos. Also untonkon is a town in Benue not a language , their language is Igbo. The problem is that Nigerians grope proudly in institutionalized ignorance

who told you kwale is same as Igbo? though they do understand each other in some cases, but they are different.
Just like saying Isoko is same as Urhobo and vice versa when they are not.
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by Divine200: 7:03am On Oct 02, 2019
babyfaceafrica:
which villages in edospeaks urhobo?
So many
Go and carry out your research
Re: Languages Spoken In Each Of The 36 States In Nigeria by babyfaceafrica: 7:09am On Oct 02, 2019
Divine200:

So many
Go and carry out your research
you made an assertion,instead of elucidating,you are asking me to do your Job...issorite!

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