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What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by YakubuAugust: 6:43pm On Apr 30, 2020
Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by SLAP44: 6:44pm On Apr 30, 2020
Ikwerre is a dialect of Igbo language. We the Ikwerre people knows that we are Igbos but oil politics made them cut states apart and set brothers against brothers.

But we are hopeful of Biafra, when we will unite with our brothers in one united country.

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by Ezewuzie01: 6:47pm On Apr 30, 2020
Ikwerre is not Igbo. It's a completely different language with roots from Benin. Ask any Ikwerre man you see and he will tell you.

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by Nobody: 6:49pm On Apr 30, 2020
SLAP44:
Ikwerre is a dialect of Igbo language. We the Ikwerre people knows that we are Igbos but oil politics made them cut states apart and set brothers against brothers.

But we are hopeful of Biafra, when we will unite with our brothers in one united country.
You don sharply turn ikwerre. Well they know who you are here.

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by SLAP44: 6:49pm On Apr 30, 2020
Ezewuzie01:
Ikwerre is not Igbo. It's a completely different language with roots from Benin. Ask any Ikwerre man you see and he will tell you.

If you want to know the origin of Rome, you read history and not by asking one citizen of Rome who is less than 100 years the origin or history of Rome that is over 2000 years old.

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by SLAP44: 6:50pm On Apr 30, 2020
okpalaAnambra:
Ikwerre is ikwerre, they're lazy modafvcker cultist's and can't be Igbo

So says a Fulani using Igbo moniker. I can use the moniker "Tony Blair ", it doesn't make me British.

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by Nwanyiogwashi(f): 6:50pm On Apr 30, 2020
We beat una on Twitter on Anioma, now na ikwerre issue una want again

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by YakubuAugust: 6:50pm On Apr 30, 2020
Interesting totally different views.
Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by SLAP44: 6:51pm On Apr 30, 2020
wizzakosh:
You don sharply turn ikwerre. Well they know who you are here.
I have always been. I am related to Uche Okwukwu.

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by SLAP44: 6:52pm On Apr 30, 2020
Nwanyiogwashi:
We beat una on Twitter on Anioma, now na ikwerre issue una want again

Your opinion will never count because you come from Kaduna state

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by Ezewuzie01: 6:53pm On Apr 30, 2020
SLAP44:


If you want to know the origin of Rome, you read history and not by asking one citizen of Rome who is less than 100 years the origin or history of Rome that is over 2000 years old.

https://todayfmlive.com/news/item/6792-ikwerre-kicks-as-ohanaeze-insist-on-holding-2017-igbo-day-in-port-harcourt.html

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by ogbuefi677(m): 6:54pm On Apr 30, 2020
Nwanyiogwashi:
We beat una on Twitter on Anioma, now na ikwerre issue una want again
Igbo amaka naa
5% giving 97% nightmares, even in broad daylight grin

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by Deepfeel(m): 6:55pm On Apr 30, 2020
Ezewuzie01:
Ikwerre is not Igbo. It's a completely different language with roots from Benin. Ask any Ikwerre man you see and he will tell you.
Ok

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by okpalaAnambra: 7:00pm On Apr 30, 2020
I was thinking jókwa greetings was only exclusive to Afikpo people of Ebonyi, I didn't know some parts of Abia like Abiriba and Bende greets the same.

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by YakubuAugust: 7:02pm On Apr 30, 2020
If this is true why can speakers of other Igbo dialects understand Ikwerre?

Ezewuzie01:
Ikwerre is not Igbo. It's a completely different language with roots from Benin. Ask any Ikwerre man you see and he will tell you.

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by KenOne: 7:04pm On Apr 30, 2020
SLAP44:
Ikwerre is a dialect of Igbo language. We the Ikwerre people knows that we are Igbos but oil politics made them cut states apart and set brothers against brothers.

But we are hopeful of Biafra, when we will unite with our brothers in one united country.

Impostor! Who told you you're from Ikwerre and related to Uche Okwukwu. My friend you're not from Elele not to talk of Ikwerre.
A true Ikwerre man Iwhuruoha in that matter will not say Ikwerre is Igbo.

Ikwerre, Emohua, Port Harcourt and Obio Akpor ancestral home is Benin, and since i was born my grand father, grand mother to my father and mother never told me that our Ikwerre has a link to Igbo.

Ogbakor Ikwerre has repeatedly rebuke those that says Ikwerre is Igbo, remember last year when Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo wanted to hold a world conference in Port Harcourt UST campus to be precise, Prof. Simeon Achinewhu then Ogbakor Ikwerre president general stopped them from holding that world conference that Ikwerre land Port Harcourt is not Igbo land.

The Berom and Langtan people of Platuea, the Ebira people Kogi and Kwara people speaks Hausa, bears Hausas names does that make them Hausa people.

This force attach must stop.

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by YakubuAugust: 7:05pm On Apr 30, 2020
Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by gidgiddy: 7:08pm On Apr 30, 2020
The Ikwerre girl was asked what 'come' is in her language and she said "Bia". That tells everyone what they need to know

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by Blue3k(m): 7:10pm On Apr 30, 2020
Do we have linguists in the chat. Your expertise is appreciated.
Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by gidgiddy: 7:10pm On Apr 30, 2020
YakubuAugust:
So many types of Igbo!

There are many dialects of Igbo from Ikwerre to Nsukka to Abiriba to Abakiliki to Ngwa to wawa to Ijekebe to diokpa. Too many. But everyone speaks central Igbo.

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by okpalaAnambra: 7:30pm On Apr 30, 2020
YakubuAugust:
So many types of Igbo!
Just like Hausa and Yoruba

Ekiti Yoruba can't even be understood by Oyo people

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by okpalaAnambra: 7:32pm On Apr 30, 2020
gidgiddy:


There are many dialects of Igbo from Ikwerre to Nsukka to Abiriba to Abakiliki to Ngwa to wawa to Ijekebe to diokpa. Too many. But everyone speaks central Igbo.
Yoruba has more types, from Ekiti to ijebu to illesha to Ondo to ogbomosho....same with Hausa

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by gidgiddy: 7:33pm On Apr 30, 2020
okpalaAnambra:

Yoruba has more types, from Ekiti to ijebu to illesha to Ondo to ogbomosho....same with Hausa

True

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by Nwanyiogwashi(f): 7:37pm On Apr 30, 2020
SLAP44:


Your opinion will never count because you come from Kaduna state
cheesy grin Even gombe

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by ABlAstate: 7:48pm On Apr 30, 2020
okpalaAnambra:

Yoruba has more types, from Ekiti to ijebu to illesha to Ondo to ogbomosho....same with Hausa


Our Abia state should be your priority

https://www.nairaland.com/5827057/abia-state-reason-trump-called

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by Dreambeat: 8:00pm On Apr 30, 2020
Igbo n'asu n'olu n'olu, mana Igbo bu ofu!

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by gidgiddy: 8:05pm On Apr 30, 2020
KenOne:


Impostor! Who told you you're from Ikwerre and related to Uche Okwukwu. My friend you're not from Elele not to talk of Ikwerre.
A true Ikwerre man Iwhuruoha in that matter will not say Ikwerre is Igbo.

Ikwerre, Emohua, Port Harcourt and Obio Akpor ancestral home is Benin, and since i was born my grand father, grand mother to my father and mother never told me that our Ikwerre has a link to Igbo.


Lets just assume you are right. Lets assume that the Ikwerre people are Bini migrants who settled in present day Rivers many years ago. I have two questions.

1) why did the Ikwerre people drop their bini names and language and adopt Igbo language and name? Why would they do this? Its not like Bini is very very far away from Ikwerre land.

2)If Ikwerres are really Bini people, why do some of them claim to be a 'distinct ethnic group'? Why are Ikwerre people not Bini people? Or maybe Ikwere/Bini people? Why havent we seen one single Ikwerre person ever come out to say he is a proud Bini man?

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by sultanodudua: 8:19pm On Apr 30, 2020
gidgiddy:


Lets just assume you are right. Lets assume that the Ikwerre people are Bini migrants who settled in present day Rivers many years ago. I have two questions.

1) why did the Ikwerre people drop their bini names and language and adopt Igbo language and name? Why would they do this? Its not like Bini is very very far away from Ikwerre land.

2)If Ikwerres are really Bini people, why do some of them claim to be a 'distinct ethnic group'? Why are Ikwerre people not Bini people? Or maybe Ikwere/Bini people? Why havent we seen one single Ikwerre person ever come out to say he is a proud Bini man?
I prefer those confused Ikwerres continue laying claims to their bini ancestry. The Igbo nation cannot be associated with lazy people whom criminality is their stock in trade. I detest it when we are associated with those race.

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by caleboxylic: 8:54pm On Apr 30, 2020
sultanodudua:

I prefer those confused Ikwerres continue laying claims to their bini ancestry. The Igbo nation cannot be associated with lazy people whom criminality is their stock in trade. I detest it when we are associated with those race.

Ikwerre shouldn't be discussed. Among all igbo clans, Ikwerre remains the poorest, and least educated. If they choose to belong to Benin, that's good for them. Nigeria won't last more 50 years because the reason for our unity (oil) is gone for good and I wonder where they will belong. When the time comes for the dissolution of this country, we will have minimum of eight nations namely ibibio/anang/efik, igbo, yoruba, Ijaw, hausa fulani, middle belt(Christians) , ,igala/tiv/idoma, and Kanuri.

Let's stop discussing about Ikwerre. Igbo nation is great with or without them

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by YakubuAugust: 11:41pm On Apr 30, 2020
I feel like theres a lot of people disguised as Igbos on this thread.

I've never heard Igbos spout so much contempt for Ikwerres in real life.

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Re: What Is An Igboid Language? Is Ikwerre The Same Language As Igbo? by XANDERBOY85: 11:44pm On Apr 30, 2020
okpalaAnambra:
Ikwerre is ikwerre, they're lazy modafvcker cultist's and can't be Igbo

So says a pathetic Igbo wannabe! wink

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