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Susu888:
So Igbo tribe means the slave tribe?! alot of things makes sense now.

igbo is not a tribe oga

Gabkosh:
Oponu, shame no even catch you. At this age, you don't know what Ndi means and you call yourself igbo.

I am ashamed on your behalf. Just see what he wrote, Ndi cannot the people.

So for example, if you want to say Igbo people, you will say igbo igbo. So dumb.

Oga, no amount of twisting can change the fact.

Ndi means people

Igbo means slave.

That is the fact.

see when it comes to language is difficult to comprehend,i studied language,in Igbo the pattern of using Ndi has to do with people,for e.g.. Ndi ocha,Ndi ahu,Ndi Yoruba,so that is Igbo language for you..do not try to be too wise for yourself,i see the comments you put here its very childish as a matter of fact but i really have to collect you ik this one.

GerogeI:
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Olodo, Argue with Google.

they really try but Ndi and those are not aplicable to somethings,Ndi is used for persons or living things in Igbo unlike, those .

Arda1000:
igbo is not a tribe oga

Fine,ethnicity..... Happy now ??

Susu888:
Fine,ethnicity..... Happy now ??

ordinary correction you no fit take nawa

Arda1000:
see when it comes to language is difficult to comprehend,i studied language,in Igbo the pattern of using Ndi has to do with people,for e.g.. Ndi ocha,Ndi ahu,Ndi Yoruba,so that is Igbo language for you..do not try to be too wise for yourself,i see the comments you put here its very childish as a matter of fact but i really have to collect you ik this one.

At the end of your epistle Mr grownish, you end up not telling us the meaning of ndi, so fashy

kayfra:
Journal of The Anthropological Institute Of Great Britain And Ireland Vol.47 1917

Some Ibo Burial Customs by N. W. Thomas

The Ibo-speaking peoples, with a portion of whom this paper deals, occupy a small area on the west bank of the lower Niger, and a much larger area on the east bank, extending as far as the Cross River from the Ibibio boundary northwards, and, at their most easterly point, beyond the northernmost point of the bight of the Cross River.

The Ibo speak a great variety of dialects, and the Eastern branches are almost unintelligible to the Western groups.

Even such close neighbours as Asaba and Onitsha, only three miles apart on the banks of the Niger, differed, until recently, somewhat widely in language.

The main Ibo area is, especially on the south and east, more or less surrounded by a fringe of aberrant dialects, which seem to have resulted from an incomplete assimilation of an alien population by Ibo-speaking conquerors, or, at any rate, a very imperfect acquisition of what might be called standard Ibo ; or we may, on the other hand, regard these dialects (e.g., Okugba, Biko, Ezza as allied to the older wave of immigration that resulted in Efik, Ibibio, Kana and Ebiobolo.

Generally speaking the main Ibo dialects east of the Niger seem to run strip-wise from north to south, and this, no less than the aberrant character of the southern or south-eastern dialects, suggests that the Ibo migration came from the north.

In this connection it is noteworthy that Abua and Akunakuna, two closely related dialects, have clearly been cleft asunder by the Ibo stream and now lie, one north-west of Degema, the other east of the Cross River.

It is worthy of notice that the word Ibo (Ibo) means slave ; this suggests that there was no migration in mass, driving alien populations before it ; but that a conquering people imposed its language on subject populations.

This would afford a sufficient explanation of the character of the language of outlying areas, as well as of the great number of dialects which form a strong contrast to the homogeneity of the Yoruba area.

It is not without interest that the town of Nri, or Aguku, which claims the right of inducting Chiefs and doing other ceremonial work as far as Asaba, at least, on the west, and, probably, over an equally wide area in other directions, also speaks of the people of the surrounding area as Ibo, and themselves claim the name of Nri.

This fits in well with the supposition that they are an island of the original Ibo-speaking conquering race, which is now swallowed up in the mass of the population everywhere else.

As regards the areas with which this paper deals, the districts of Awka and Asaba, the former includes the town of Aguku, just mentioned ; generally speaking, there are few traditions of origin among them.

In Asaba, on the other hand, each town has its tradition of a founder or a record of migration, so that the diversity of custom is easier to understand.

Generally speaking, Asaba, Ibuzo and Okpanam form a closely associated group, as far as general customs go.

Some data for the other towns and for the Awka district will be found elsewhere, together with maps showing the localities, which are enumerated below, for each district.

Asaba was founded by Nevise, according to tradition, who came from Nteje on the east of the Niger perhaps some four hundred years ago.


http://jstor.org/stable/2843415

Some fools tend to incite themselves with blatant falsehood and certain ninnies equally celebrate the foolery. In what language is Ibo denotes slave? It is certainly not Igbo language. If Ibo means slave in a certain foreign language, the author displayed mischievous intent by not stating the language in the essay.

Gabkosh:
At the end of your epistle Mr grownish, you end up not telling us the meaning of ndi, so fashy

see some languages are very complex,you will not understand unless you learn more than your mother tongue and english

Dedetwo:
Some fools tend to incite themselves with blatant falsehood and certain ninnies equally celebrate the foolery. In what language is Ibo denotes slave? It is certainly not Igbo language. If Ibo means slave in a certain foreign language, the author displayed mischievous intent by not stating the language in the essay.

You actually owe your civilization to the Author of the study N.W. Thomas

He is an academic that literally helped translate Ibo to English and documented the Ibo Proverbs that still survive till date

Be grateful to N.W. Thomas

https://re-entanglements.net/thomas/

Arda1000:
ordinary correction you no fit take nawa

Did i complain??

I fixed the mistake na ah ah!