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baby124:
People customize their Egusi however they like to. Traditionally Egusi is cooked with Efo tete. It is a big hard leaf Yoruba vegetable. Ugwu is an Igbo vegetable. By the way, Yoruba’s also cook with bitter leaf. Bitterleaf is Ewuro. You know nothing about Yoruba cuisine. So stop talking bullshit. We also have a lot of vegetable species we cook with.

And you know nothing about Igbo cuisine so shut your own mouth.

Una get akpurakpu egusi?

scholes0:
Haa, they have already claimed Ogede oo

Ogede’s shared. Get over yourself.

maestroferddi:
And who cares m whether you are from Oklahoma?

My mama tell me say we be Igbo...

If you are a nwafor Igbo rooted in Igbo culture and tradition, you wouldnt come here and be denigrating Igbo consciousness...





If

I’m now denigrating Igbo consciousness for saying that some words are shared between Igbo and Yoruba?

I’ve seen it all.

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scholes0:
See this one, no one is arguing the presense of some Arabic and Hausa words in Yoruba due to centuries of contact.. We all know what words in Yoruba are of Hausa origin via Nupe and others.

Besides there are Hausa words of Yoruba origin as well, such as Ashishi (Eshinshin) Housefly, Agwaluma (Agbalumo) African star apple, Alade (Elede) Pig Etc. There is many more.

So Yoruba and Hausa borrowing goes both ways.

There are plenty Hausa words in Igbo too don’t lie and pretend as if Hausa words exist only in yoruba, lol- that means the Igbo language is the most deficient in nigeria, cause they pick words from every corner.
The bone of contention here are YORUBA authentic words that have diffused into languages like Igbo which they now claim today like AKARA, EGUSI, etc.

Very soon, Igbos will claim Kpomo, Gele, Ogede and many more Yoruba words.

Just watch.

There’s no other word for banana in Igbo than ogede. That one’s also shared.

I saw you quote me just before. Did you think I’d reaffirm what you want to believe to boost your Yoruba ego?

baby124:
Igbos call egusi melon. Egusi is not an Igbo word or food. Stop misinforming. Even the way you cook Egusi is very typical of Yoruba soups. We cook soup differently from others with a palm oil and pepper base.

No one in Igboland starts cooking egusi with tatashe. And why is it that Yoruba people now use ugu and uziza to cook their own, hm? Does ugu now grow in the SW?

baby124:
Akara, moin moin and egusi are Yoruba. There are also Yoruba settlements in Jamaica

And I’m telling you mai mai and egusi are also Igbo.

Have you actually been to Igboland?

maestroferddi:
And who told you that?

You Yorubas would not travel around and learn.

There is more to life than making blind arguments and ignorant assertions from the forests and
woodlands of Ogbomosho...

I’m from Anambra State actually. Pipe down.

maestroferddi:
Ogiri abd egusi/egwusi are exclusive Igbo words.

Any language using them loaned them from Igbo...

Ogiri and egusi are shared.

LMAO.

KingSango:
All Negroes are forbidden to enter NL thereby I ban you!

Ase

Love Sango

You’re forbidden to enter any of my threads.

Love Obinna

obowunmi:
This lady has mental health issues and should be left alone.

Schizophrenia, bipolar, PTSD and borderline personality disorder. Sad.

Just bipolar.

RedboneSmith:
Have you read Dubois' 'The Negro'? It's a little book. Very readable. Also very outdated. But still, I'll count it as one of the best summaries of black history I have ever read.

I haven’t but I’ll have a look around for it.

What do you mean by outdated? Not that I don’t know what you’re hitting it. I just weren’t sure if you meant in the way it uses racial language (throwing around nigger as was the norm for that time) or something a little deeper.

Zoolezoo:
Nigerians just Fight over the most stupid of things... smh

Only with stupid people. Aljharem happens to be a little cunt.

fero007:
una no hear say na joke wen I start? whatever

ukwuani, ikas and ikwerres are not Igbos o, but don't take it from me ask the ika or ikwerre man then you will see ur the one who critically needs sense

They’re only Igbo because they don’t want to be but all that’s sentiments. They are what they are.

aljharem:
Asun
Ewa alagbado
ewa oniisu
efo riro
ewuro
efo elegusi
omi obe
ata didi
Garri ijebu (igbos copies gari from yoruba and add Palm oil)
Wara tutu/wara dindin
obe elepo
Okada gbona.

I think you’re forgetting that garri’s even a Hausa name.

Jollof Rice or fried rice?

RedboneSmith:
The bolded is rubbish. Various legumes, including beans (agwa) were well established in Igboland before amalgamation.

Allow him. According to him pineapple pizza and French fries originated in Ibadan. Easterners were unclad forest dwellers before exposure and colonialism in his mind.

aljharem:
So many false statement here. Alaia and moi moi are borrowed words from Yoruba. Until the amalgamation of Nigeria there was nothing like bean in igbo land. The demography does not favour such!!!!. So how did they get food made from beans. Haha!!!!!

Nothing like beans in Igboland? Nothing like akidi ani, okpa and fiofio? It just so happens that black-eyed and brown oloyin beans are the most readily available in Nigeria.

And you talk like all of Igboland’s green rainforest. Have you been to Enugu?

Why is it okay for you to open your mouth and talk about Igbo things you don’t know anything about but not the other way round, hm?

RedboneSmith:
No. Borrowed word.

I just thought it was one of those shared words between the languages. Just like ogiri, egusi and mai mai/moyin-moyin (moin moin).

RedboneSmith:
'Imu oso' is not a Jamaican patois expression. The post where you got this from misinterpreted the source material.

'Akara' is also not Igbo. It is Yoruba.

Other Igbo words in Jamaican Patois that could have been added are:

Attoo (chewing stick) from Igbo 'atu' and chinch/chink (bedbug) from Igbo 'chinchi.'

Is akara not a shared word between Yoruba and Igbo?

RedboneSmith:
Australian aborigines.

Notice the hair texture, the brow ridges, the wide faces. Don't be entirely focused on skin colour. These people don't look West African.

Those people look like charcoal monsters that’s for sure. Who’s even want to be mistaken for them?

Someone ban this onye ara. Biko.

Anyone have any idea what the connecting link is between Awka North and Awka South local government areas? Have they got any connection with Awka town or is the naming by accident?

Oma307:
the hen died as a hero

She’ll make better pepper soup.

She would have ended up sprinkled with thyme and Maggi and fried for jollof rice anyway.

Pele sha.

9jakool:
No Yoruba dialect is weird, it's just perception. For example a native speaker of Ijebu won't find anything strange about Ijebu, but an Ibadan speaker might and vice versa. If we are going to use the Standard Yoruba register which is based on the Ibadan and Oyo dialects as the basis, then there are some dialects that would be considered "weird" by a person who's not familiar with other dialects. This is why when a lot of people who come to Yorubaland and just learn the Standard Yoruba find it very difficult to understand the many dialectal varieties that exist. This problem can be averted if you train your ears to the different dialects. Native Yorubas can generally pick up on each others' dialects.

But to answer your question, if someone learns the common standard Yoruba, then the NE, SE and the SW dialect groups will be the most difficult to understand. Let me break it down, Standard Yoruba is based on the NW dialects, so you are going to understand other NW dialects(Ibadan, Lagos, Oyo). Some NW dialects like Egba, Ibarapa, Ibolo, Yewa, Onko might give you a little more challenge but you are still going to understand. You will also understand the Central dialects, although you will find some challenges. When you get to the SE(Ijebu,Ondo, Ilaje etc), one's untrained ears will not help.

To put it short, anything SE Yoruba(Most of the many dialects in Ondo state except for Akure as well as the Ijebu and Remo dialects in Ogun and Lagos) will be the "weirdest." These dialects contain reminiscence of old Yoruba as that have changed very little since antiquity in comparison to some Yoruba dialects. These dialects have very complex/unique phonology/sounds that aren't simply present in many Yoruba dialects. This include consonants, oral vowels and nasal vowels that are typically simplified in NW Yoruba dialects. For example, mouth in Yoruba is "enu" and "erhu" in Ilaje. Hole in Yoruba is "iho" and earth is "aye" but "ukhwo" and "ehyale" in the Ikale dialect respectively. You also have the frequent use of nasal sounds like "en" and "on" in those dialects.

The SW dialects, particularly the Ana/Ife dialect of Togo-Benin can be hard to understand, but I won't say it's the "weirdest" sounding. The sound systems are much simpler than the SE varieties.

Lol. Weird’s obviously a tongue-in-cheek expression. You know what I’m saying.

Interesting still. I get that feeling with Eastern Yorubas, I know what you’re saying. It’s always freaking to meet an Ekitian after tons of Osun/Oyo/Abeokuta people. They’re a little more distinct even apart from their dialect.

No better way to start the day than with ofe akwu.

thesicilian:
Are the Yoruba cities up to ten? Apart from Lagos, Ibadan and Abeokuta, all the other ones there are just 'towns'.

And on our own side what do we have outside Enugu and Owerri?

Abiriba? Abakaliki?

bigfrancis21:
Haha. Many times I feel like responding but I've been quite very busy of late.

Jisie ike, o?

AjaanaOka:
Nah, 'ndu' is just our own variation of 'ndi' and 'nde' used by other Igbo groups. There's nothing Igala about it.

For a people that had extensive contacts with their non-Igbo neighbours, Awka culture shows very little evidence of borrowing and mixing. For example, Umuzocha, for all its dealings with the Igala in the past, only has one probably Igala name to show for it (Ata), whereas the Nsukka area has scores of Igala-derived names.

We aren't even that mixed, if our traditions are anything to go by. With the exception of two groups that came from Enugu State and Umudioka-Dunukofia, all of Awka insist that they didn't migrate from outside the borders of the town.

I wouldn’t know about that though. Ogbono soup’s an Umuzocha staple and they say they got it from Igala (and migrated from there). At least at some point. You know how Awka’s got links with other parts of the country through trade. Igala and Umuzocha get strong links.

MrGerald:
Stop disgracing yourself nothing concerns egusi (egwusi) with Yoruba, just the same way you guys are erroneously misspelling oyibo for oyinbo, tomorrow you'll say that onugbu, okro (okwuro) ogbono are Yoruba words because they're very popular words in Lagos, the question is are they popular in other Yoruba rusted towns?

Oyinbo’s Yoruba though. Egusi’s shared.