₦airaland Forum

RedboneSmith:
Very little.

Is that something that changes with more and more exposure or is it always incomprehensible?

RedboneSmith:
Is mutual intelligibility calculable to the point where they can be expressed in figures or percentages? I doubt.

Perhaps you meant lexical similarity?

How much of Izzi can a mainstream Igbo person understand in other words?

ChinenyeN:
Probz, from the much that I understand about the region, when it comes to specific words (when written down with Onwu orthography and without any indication of tone), they do not diverge that much. The cognate relationship between this cluster and say, Oratta is still rather high.

It's the morphology (how sentences are constructed along with tone) and phonology (pronunciation and tone) that truly sets it apart. I'll use Izii in particular, since it's divergence is well known. And anyone who knows better should feel free to correct me if I am wrong on this.

Let's take a famous bible verse, John 3:16 (in the King James version), "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.".

Igbo (standard-ish), "N'ihi na Chineke huru uwa n'anya otú a, na Ọ nyere ọbuná Ọkpara Ọ muru nání Ya, ka onye ọ bula nke kwere na Ya we ghara ila n'iyì, kama ka o nwe ndu ebighi-ebi." https://www.bible.com/bible/77/JHN.3.16.IGBOB

Izii, "Lẹ Chileke yekwarụ ndiphe obu; yetabe iya k'ọphu ọ nụru Nwa lanụ, o nweru kpoloko: g'ọoburu onye kwetarụ nkiya; onye ono taa ladụ l'iswi; o nwechiaru ndzụ ojejoje." https://www.bible.com/bible/1601/JHN.3.16.IZII

If you encounter Izii for the first time, it will certainly be unintelligible, even time after time after that. Yet, you can still see that as far as the cognate words are concerned, the divergence is not that far off. There is parity, but the morphology and phonology significantly obscure it.

As far as names peculiar to the region, someone else might have to answer that. I am not that familiar.

And what would you say the mutual intelligibility between ‘mainstream’ Igbo and Izzi is?

All these views and not one person has anything to say?

Well?

Hit me up either on this thread or more privately if interested. Affordable monthly rates.

Damian457:
Like i said I don’t really know.
Right from the moment I stepped out of Boston logan Airport my spirit blended with the system. After few days of visiting nice places I named America the greatest country on earth.
This is my own opinion though.
I know a couple of friends who would prefer Sweden and Norway to America any day.

I prefer the southern states.

Damian457:
Vermont, New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire

And what was it that made the American experience stand out to you?

Damian457:
It’s not about Hollywood, I have visited once and i can categorically tell you i love it there

Which part did you visit?

Damian457:
I don’t know why I’m so much in love with the country.

I feel you.

Damian457:
USA

And why’s that?

Where would you rather live of the two nations as a diaspora Nigerian?

cc. RedboneSmith, ChinenyeN, ezeagu, bigfrancis21

Omanambala:
What's your point ?
Cc. Probz

So you don’t need to erroneously use Omambala in place of Anambra to sound more like a super-duper Igbotic nwafor. It’s Anambra, not anything else.

Omanambala:
What's your point ?
Cc. Probz

So you don’t need to erroneously use Omambala in place of Anambra to sound more like a true nwafor.

If it was a woman who vomited this crime there’d be no shortage of people cursing out the feminine half of society for one person’s misdeed.

Ademolag:
why there is feminism is that the women know that they being inferior to men is the truth.
why is there no masculinism too?

I'm never equal to a woman abeg!!!

Of course you can never be equal to someone who has the capacity to give life. There’s no question of the half of society that has higher reproductive responsibilities being inferior.

Heffalump:
I like what tge guy did. That was a good lesson to the lady. Our women must learn how to behave by force. Nonsense and ingredient

Abroad isn’t like Naija. Certain things will only lead to jail time.

IDENNAA:
I didnt denigrate anybody but I will not stand by and watch some nonentities defame and ridicule the elegant and beautiful culture of Omanbala people. That will not happen. Lately, some people from southern Igbo areas have been working very hard at tarnishing the image of Nri. They want to divide Anambra buy squaring Awka vs Nri online squabbles and I will not let that happen. Anambra people practice a near homogeneous culture excluding towns like Umunze etc.

I hope you know that Omanbala isn’t the native spelling of Anambra.

Jayslicky:
Yes a wife should submit her salary to her man, she should also submit her pvssy, her love, her time and most importantly her life to her man.

The woman belongs to the man, so far he has paid her bride price. Anything the man tells his woman she should do, she must do it, if he tells her to eat grass she must do it, if he tells her to kneel down to serve his food she must do it.

A man is a Lord while a woman is a maid.

Are you actually stupid?

Bump.

If the wrapper’s masculine then so’s the non-bifurcated underwear worn underneath it. It’s no big deal so long as you know how to tie a wrapper properly.

MFerrara:
A boy becomes a man when he can take responsability for his own actions.
It's the reason there are so many manchildren nowadays all around the world.

No doubt.

Igbochief001:
No difference ... really .. except maybe igbos use more tin tomatoes than fresh

But it's not a sort after food in Igbo land it's just there we have far far far better foods

Do Igbos living in the East use ginger, brown sugar and Maggi White? Do they use green chilli peppers along with more overall pepper than tomatoes? Do Yoruba people cook jollof rice with crayfish as a rule?

If your answer to at least one of them’s no then there’s a clear difference right there.

Igbochief001:
No difference ... really .. except maybe igbos use more tin tomatoes than fresh

But it's not a sort after food in Igbo land it's just there we have far far far better foods

And that’s precisely why Yoruba party rice is the most popular form of jollof rice worldwide.

bigbananai:
so what is persly called

I do not know.

Igbochief001:
Lol Oga who made jollof king of Nigerian food ...that's yoruba media and their hype ..all this Lagos people

U would sea afang , better rivers native soup , rivers boule , ukwa , owerri soup , Igbo native equsi and go for jollof rice ? Bros abegi

Jollof is just cheap bro ..I. Igbo land jollof is for kids and people no body know ..real mean it better things

And that’s why Yoruba people have party jollof on lock. And I say that as a fellow Igbo who’s barely ever based in Lagos.

Maybe when you leave Ihilia you’ll see how widely sought on-point jollof rice is and that craving extends to the diaspora, not just Lagos. Keep making crayfish rice for kids by all means but don’t drag party jollof with Yorubas.

Igbochief001:
U think u enjoy yourself more than igbos ?
Your parties are cheap ...u go for the cheapest part of meat , the cheapest fish n so on ....u hyped jollof rice in part ...na children dey eat jollof for Igbo party

Go to any market where igbos are ...everyday they most celebrate something , new born , new house , new car , something must happen , free drinks ..most times expensive drinks

If an Igbo man throws a party , then it's a party no be by mouth ...to to Igbo land there is bae every 5 houses and all sales ...that's how we roll ..we don't need loud music to enjoy

Highlife was always more matured than afro juju

Jollof rice is the queen of Nigerian food so there’s no pride in saying it’s reserved for kids at Igbo parties.

AbakalikiPress:
Another fact is that All Igbo towns with Obis are not truly Igbo.

In Ebonyi where I come from for example, I can't even mention any prominent kingships that exist anywhere..
We Igbos in our natural state don't HAVE KINSHIPS. /

As an Ebonyi Ezaa man, The concept of an Obi is as alien to me as having an Emir.

That is the simple TRUTH.

What do you stand to gain by masquerading as an Ezza man? Who do you think you’re fooling?

This issue's been vaguely dealt with on other threads but is there any considerable divergence between these four collective "Abakaliki lects" and do they diverge from central Igbo more by words/morphology or just pronunciation? And are there any specific names peculiar to this region?

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