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Temital:
Umo - weldone (or something)
Mabai - Come and eat (I'm not sure)
Feti baro - Leave there or leave that place.

Can't remember the rest..

Nice one. Thank you!

Could anyone post something in Ukaan? (Greetings or something of the sort).

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mby d plan sef is to sell ogogoro patents to germany so boko haram needs to fuel their stupidity wid other means. dat would explain the ogogoro ban.

There is no reason to ban ogogoro. Anything that is brewed by insufficient means and consumed too much of will eventully kill someone. It should be regulated though, so whoever chose to drink it can drink it safely.

Potential gold mine for anyone with the means.

How many of these actually sing in Yoruba though, apart from the obvious ones?

Olamide should be in this list.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiQpc5dWsjg

Weyreypey, really? Is this how we write Yoruba now?

Wèrèpè ni.

tomioro:
Ministers cannot be appointed without the inauguration of the 8th National Assembly. Nigerians should please be patient with the President. Why are we so much in a hurry as a nation?

Ehn, wasteful governments year after year. D real question is: u no go tire?

Why is it so hard to throw out foreign oil companies and the likes so the country can finally be built the right way without anyone stealing our wealth in the process?

As long as fools dey for top, change no go come. MEANWHILE, boko haram sips sapele water without the slightest worry of getting caught.

Doesn't really matter whether it's legit or not; that's his problem. Gratz anyway!

gatiano:
What does an owl signify in Yoruba culture, I have forgotten that of a chameleon, please tell if you know. Most Black people see owl as an evil thing.

Yup, eye owiwi is usually associated with withcraft. The chameleon is pretty much the opposite, as in good-bearing.

Anyways, Aina Orosun is indeed not a child of pain. However, whether it has any real connection to anything outside of Yoruba culture I really don't know. The thing with Yoruba is that the words are contructed in a manner that makes many words resemble in many ways those of other languages, even distinct ones. While it is not that hard to decipher the Yoruba words for their intended meaning, most other languages have lost their word roots and words are merely words, unlike Yoruba where each syllable bears a meaning.

In essence, it is difficult to be sure about anything. I have however, read just now, that aleipho in Greek is a verb (what is the actual word for oil in Greek?) and that it is not a term used to describe something ceremonial, but rather a more generic term and would therefore probably not be in any immediate connection with someone who's anointed, but rather medicinal purposes.

Btw, do you know the whole Aina oriki?

1M ke O_o

This whole thread is ridiculous! These random stories seem to be manufactured at a higher and higher rate. They seem interesting at first, but then the posters real intentions are exposed, without objectivity and proof saying otherwise.

A ki i gbe odo jiyan bi ose ho tabi ko ho.

tpiadotcom:
This generated something of an argument. Olokun is either gender it seems.

There is too much focus on gender these days. It started happening after the English invasion. Yoruba is a genderless language after all, which means such information was never of outmost importance.

teeboztb:
Hi guys,
Please i need someone who lives/has lived in Oslo to recommend a reliable telecoms network i can buy during my 8 week stay in Oslo. I would want a balance of effectiveness/reliability (calls and data/internet) as well as affordability.
Thanks

Chess/Onecall is the way to go.

Cherokee:
StarFlux,
Thanks Baba, got your reply.

No problem. It's unfortunate I couldn't provide you with better info. Feel free to pop a mail any time though.

mbeenox:
Hello, can I still apply for fall semester 2015 in Norway by this time. Any school still accepting application.

It is too late, unfortunately.

lobito007:
How did you arrive at 2.5m. The required amount is usually 90,800 NOK and should not be up to that.

The funding requirement is set in stone by UDI. Usually it's slightly higher each year due to increased salaries. As a result, cost of living rises as well. Currently it sits at 97 850 NOK.

adeniyibolanle:
Hello everyone, am new on this thread and i have gone tru people's post and i belive i will definately get answers to my questions. Am a graduate and i will love to do my MSc in any university in Norway. I read biochemistry and came out with a gp of 2.6 presently serving. Pls hope my gp is still ok, and what are the things i shuld put in place apart from my transcript? Thanks in aticipation for you reply

Procedure: http://www.uio.no/english/studies/admission/master/non-eu-applicants/index.html
Additional documentation: http://www.uio.no/english/studies/admission/master/documentation-requirements/nigeria.html

Some available programmes in natural sciences:

UiO: http://www.uio.no/english/studies/programmes/#topic=matematikk-naturvitenskap-teknologi&type=
UiB: http://www.uib.no/en/education/50057/masters-programmes-self-financing#natural-sciences-and-technical-subjects
NTNU: http://www.ntnu.edu/studies/allstudies?studyLevels=570_580_INTNASJ&fieldOfEdu=REALFAG

akin08:
Hello house! I just got a mail from UIS now dat i ve bin grantd admissn. I really want to appreciate each n every one of u in dis forum for the relevant info passed n targetd questns asked. Starflux n Inxyz u guys rock.

Wow, congratulations! That is truly awesome. Enjoy am.

I recommend seeing the Preacher's Pulpit while the sun is still shining come August.

The only official language in Nigeria is English, the rest don't enjoy the same status.

And no, English influence needs to disappearcompletely, which means adapting a local language as soon as Nigerian stop being tribalists.

There's a thousand different ways to be intelligent. IQ tests aren't worth a dime.

As long as foreign companies drains our natural resources, the country will never be even close to its potential. Nigerian economy isn't strong at all as it doesn't stand on its own legs.

RAO1:
is eagle ,,àwòdì or àsa.....
someone likened and analysed Nigerian national bird(Eagle ) with the characteristics of Eagle..... I need responses first, b4 I post the analysis.. tnx

Eagle is awodi or idi/eye idi.

Howmanage:
What is cassava in yoruba? Also can ou explain the tonal accents ie ami used in the yoruba written work

Cassava is "ẹ̀gẹ́".

You have three basic tones:

Low tone: è (grave accent). This one is pronounced with a low pitch.
Mid tone: e (unmarked). I guess you could call this the standard tone of speech in general.
High tone: é (acute accent). This one is pronounced with a high pitch.

In addition you have falling and rising tones which are written as follows:

Falling: éè (grave + acute). Pronounced with a falling pitch.
Rising: èé (acute + grave). Pronounced with a rising pitch.

If you want to listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfCjC5jXriw

Relics from the past. Same with the left hand issue.

Malakh:
hey sis, i read your latest post and I felt maybe I could help a sister out, you just need direction because you are a lost sheep, going to Nigeria is not the solution, anyways I reside in south atlanta, if this interest you we can communicate by phone

ehn... sabi sabi

abeg, wetin concern you for this matter? if she full ground remain, theres nothing wrong with coming to naija.

Just listen to Dyoungstar 's advice.

Very nice thread! I'd like to see more of Ebira

adeitoro:
woow, every words happen to be a yoruba word.

I heard that Nigeria is also a yoruba words, from the word Oringeriafemi (original Nigeria loves me) invented by Baba Awolowo.

Igbo mma mma nu,
hapunu onye efulefu a ka o na-akogheri.

They always like to boast their ego by claiming what they don't have.

Una no dey tire :/ ọ̀gá is a Yoruba word. Disputing that is beyond ridiculous. Has nothing to do with ego.

The oyinbo threads are somewhat legitimate, but this really isn't. Nice troll bait though.

Ahon ni ipinle enu. It isn't funny at this point.

Howmanage:
what is gburo scientific name? Is it waterleaf?

Do you perhaps mean gbure? If so, yes it means waterleaf.

ladionline:
Tribalism is the commander in chief of our country's problems. Wait and see as soon as your thread hit frontpage, the beast would be unleashed.

Lol, ooto ni.

See oyinbo thread sef. I tell myself everyone has to start somewhere, hopefully in Nigeria will change at some point.

Howmanage:
Re: ba wo ni? As a greeting. Its somewhat modern. What is the most appropriate response without including english words??

Simply answer: daadaa ni - all is well. Then you can ask back: iwo nko? - and how are you?

Redoil:
Is it a cultural thing for them to involve red oil in all their cookings?

Well, it's commonly used, but it's more of a West African thing and not necessarily restricted to Yorubas only.

pazienza:
I had once read punch and other Yoruba news papers, I noticed they wrote "Oyingbo" for the white man, rarely did they use "Oyinbo". Is " Oyingbo" a dialectical variant of "Oyinbo",for the Yorubas or was it just a typographical error?

If you're 100% sure it was used in that context, then in older texts, "ng" was sometimes used to express the syllabic "n", so it's probably written by someone elderly, which would make it a typo. In case it isn't a typo, then the meaning is altered.

bigfrancis21:
@bold...on the contrary, early usage does matter. Because it indicates the originality of something. Now, 'oyibo' might be Igbo and 'oyinbo' THE yoruba pronunciation however the bone of contention lies in the originality of which, of which to establish the originality of something, as it always is in the world of academia, academic evidence of its early usage has to be furnished. Open up any Oxford or Cambridge dictionary and look up words, linguists try to trace the origin of a word going by the very first mention of the world in the particular period of time. So far I have done that for Igbo, you have utterly failed to do that for Yoruba.

Now, let us assume 'oyibo' is Igbo (which is recorded in wikipedia) and 'oyinbo' is Yoruba and both are correct. The existence of 'oyibo' in Igboland as at 17th century has been established. Any academic author will quickly establish that as fact. Now how can you prove the Yoruba had been using 'oyinbo' before 17th century? How is it not possible that the word spread to SW, through the Edo peoples? Almost every tribe in Nigeria except the SW calls it 'oyibo' which makes us to believe that they are pronouncing the word in its original form and 'oyinbo' being the corrupted form? Ok, please furnish evidence for the earliest usage of 'oyinbo' in Yoruba land.

Igbo: okwute (6 letters) Yoruba: okuta (5 letters)
Igbo: mmiri (5 letters) Yoruba: omi (3 letters)
Igbo: gbajie (6 letters) Yoruba: baje (4 letters)
Igbo: Ogwu (more complicated sounding) Yoruba: Ogun (less complicated pronunciation). We all know language subsets often have less complex wordings than the original. French, Spanish, Italian (subset languages) words compared to Latin (parent languge) words is a classic example.
Igbo: Egwugwu masquerde, Yoruba: egungun masquerade (notice another simplification of the Yoruba pronunciation).

Since both Yoruba and Igbo don't allow for consonant clusters there will naturally be a ton of similar sounding words. Especially refering to /gw/, /kw/, /mm/ which are sounds that don't exist in many/most spoken Yoruba dialects, so simplification is void. In addtion, kw and gw are single consonants, like kp and gb, written using two letters. I assume you're refering to omi as in water, putting an m or n (tense marker) in front of a noun (which nearly exclusively starts with a vowel in Yoruba) wouldn't have made sense, not to mention the word is of the same construction as standard nouns (VCV). Water is also something everyone and everything has a word for as it is natural occuring. A very silly claim indeed. Then we come to baje, which is derived from the split verb ba .. je, you also have bati, bajo etc. The use of ba is common and rooted deep within the language. Egungun is simply a duplication of the word egun, meaning ancestors.

There's nothing to suggest any borrowing, and claiming otherwise is pretty far fetched, borderline ridiculous actually. No educated person ever will take such statements seriously and kind of takes away any hint of seriousness you might've had previously.