₦airaland Forum

We all know how common variant names (aka Ngozi/Nkoli, Okeke/Okekere) are in the east, just like whole names unique to certain areas. Which ones do you think of?

I associate Nne/anna, Kalu and Ogbonna with the eastern/Cross River Igbo (Ohafia, Afikpo/Edda, Bende) and Agalamanyi with Nsukka area. How about unu?

So why single out Ebonyi if two-thirds of Enugu indigenes are ancestrally Igala?

AbakalikiPress:
Yes, Anambra Igbos are a little Mixed with Igala, then there is another extra 2% that still self identify Igala.
Enugu is not little, it is heavy. I mean like more than 65% of Enugu North Zone are converted Igalas. There is no tiv there, Just Igala and some Idoma.
The Zone in Lemon below.

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Igedes are in Ebonyi trust me, but I don't know what percent you want the to get to, before they are considered significant there.

65% of ndi Enugwu are Igala? Are you trying to be funny?

Imo's the only 100% pure Igbo state, nwa Abakaleke. Anambra and Enugu a little mixed with Igala, Enugu with Tiv and Idoma and Abia with Ibibio. Ndi Igede aren't even recognised as having a significant presence in Ebonyi.

fratermathy:
Wonderful! You came to a thread, skipped all its pages to the last, singled out one in your mind's eyes, and commented!


Bravo man! Bravo! Nairaland gets better everyday.

I'm allowed to skim read as much or little as I like and I don't need to get involved in Nairaland politics to make a comment. Doesn't make me a hypocrite.

How old are you?

fratermathy:
You believed he is Ikwerre, even without him writing in Ikwerre, simply because he supports your interests but you doubt the Igboness of AbakalikiPress because he disparages your stand and that of your online hunters? Such double standards!

The so-called Ikwerre1stson is so bent on letting all know he is Ikwerre by posting it multiple times even when it is obviously encapsulated in his username. Such proclaimation of identity begs serious questioning. HopeAtHand.. take over from here. I need some Ikwerre interrogations for the self proclaimed Ikwerre1stson, just like blues20 and others have been interrogating AbakalikiPress.

Nairaland is really full of wonders!

I only saw that one comment. Does it look like I'm following the topic or that I'm bothered about the politics of the Nairaland Ikwerre association? Did I ever doubt that Abakaleke nigga's Igboticness? Save your nonsense epistle for someone who cares.

Come on shut up. Eyiye.

ikwere1stson:
Onmenka focus on Benue state I wonder if they use Igbo to swear for you...iam ikwere and iam igbo

An Ikwerre who knows his roots. Jisie ike.

gykes:
LMAO

That makes any sense to you?

Do you think I dey go by what makes sense to me or the literal translation?

gykes:
Plz what's the meaning of Igweocha in English?

If at all that's an Igbo word

White hill.

AkinPhysicist:
WTF?!!!!!!!! Now I know why Northerners were slaughtering Iboes in Kano

Anyone could say the same about Akoko/Ijaw people in Ondo.

You obviously haven't left Nigeria. You're way out of your zone so keep your mouth shut about things you don't know.

ezugegere:
The only word I know that has the same meaning in Ebira and Igbo languages is 'ejima'. Ejima means twins in both languages.

Tnat particular word stems from Igala/Yoruba actually. But spoken Ebira sounds Igboid enough for a listener.

Red oil's just for colouring. You don't need oil at all if you do it the caking way.

18 but looks 14. See baby face.

AbakalikiPress:
Hhaha, this one you posted is the "Modernist" version of Igbo territory.
Ethnologists are not stupid.

Again, look at ANOTHER map of TRUE speakers of Igbo. Not political Igbo.

Again it agrees with all my points. Northern Enugu - OUT. Ebonyi - OUT, Anioma - OUT, Arochukwu - OUT
Again, let me mention that it isn't accurate, but it is close.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4161/34503715495_7c29a0ae0d_b.jpg

In rivers, only the Omumma general area is there. Ikwerre, Ekpeye and Etche are out.

Ekpeye's the only distinct lect in the Igboid continuum. The Etche you wan discredit is classed as pure Igbo (not even Igboid) but Izzi and Ezza aren't. Go figure.

Zizicardo:
I don't use either of the two. I use ginger and garlic, believe me, the taste is awesome

I hope that's not what you add to egusi.

How many people know that these people were full-bodied negroes?

ladySuperb:
ehn ehn?
what happen

So why you don tell an Igbo man what variant spelling to use when you be Yoruba girl? What would you know about our soups?

Ahn ahn.

Igbo but I know Delta Igbos prefer Ibo. But no self-respecting Igbo man from the Far East would write Igbo as Ibo.

That garri looks too watery.

AjaanaOka:
Your ikwunne is in Umuzocha?

Ngwa, nwadiana gbuo ikpele!

Ekele m unu ooo

ladySuperb:
seriously??

Yea, seriously. Ain't you Adeola or so?

Must you stop?

The guy's 93.

ybalogs:
Abeg make una no fight on top soup wey no sweet reach abula. Oha or ora still dey learn.

Ora.

It practically is already.

kense88:
sharp! bloody afonja

Don't mind the nigga. No sane person puts Yoruba and best looking women in Naija in the same sentence. Cha cha.

Na wa for oga Lanre.

ladySuperb:
Sir.... its not ora soup
its OHA soup

It's either. We don't say oha in my part of Anambra.

AjaanaOka:
Probz,

You are probably from Umuzocha or Umubele on your mum's side. Those are the two Awka villages with the strongest Igala links. Oh yes, Umudioka, too.

I am from Umuzocha myself. Sometimes we get called 'Ndu Igala' (Igala people) by the other Awka villages. My grandfather and many Umuzocha men of his generation spoke fluent Igala. It doesn't seem that they passed on that knowledge though, because my father and his siblings can't speak it.

Umuzocha's the one, yup.

yarimo:
Waiting patiently on top of BITTER KOLA Tree in CHIBOK, for IPOB to claim AMALA is their own

Why would an Igbo man want to lay claim to smelly black amala when have akpu and ora soup?