₦airaland Forum

SonOfEl:
you just exhibited what I stereotyped negatively as regards anambra men. hahaha......

as an abia man, no amambarian can intimidate me. if abians are to boast, anambra will sweat it out with us. just saying though....

by the way, I respect anambra, despite your shortcomings, you guys are making the IGBO nation proud.

OdenigboAroli:
And for those saying other tribes are laughing at "us",point of correction. They are laughing at you and your likes because you have poor sense of arguement and reasoning. I know my self and where I come from and nobody can mock me.

YoungDaNaval:
Lmao Oga diz 1 go hard oh!

bossto:
I have an accent that has been discouraging me to the extent that i'm too shy to speak in the public.

For instance,"light and night" sound alike to me, I mean i can't differentiate them perfectly, but whenever I converse with my friends or put those aforementioned words in sentences, they (my friends) do not correct me...But I always doubt if I had pronounced them correctly.

Other words I have problem in differentiating are: snap/slap, lame/name. Though no one has corrected me on these.

So the main issue here is "IS THERE MUCH DIFFERENCE IN THEIR SOUNDS?
Pls be honest!!

mekula:
My brother, asides the constant knack for bragging about superiority and nobility, praytell what has all you wrote up there correlate with the simple explanation given to @Gurgle about how Ebonyi was carved out from mostly Enugu and not Imo? We are all proud of our heritage but it doesnt make other groups less human.

As for change, it is constant. No language or culture remains in its truest form. Enculturation and acculturaton must always occur. Even medieval contemporary English language has been replaced by modern English and even that too would someday be replaced by current trends in sms chatting techniques and all what not. Sometimes it is from these corruptions of languages and cultures that new dialects and variations thereof spring off.

I would worry more about the preservation of the language and not its corruption. The latter is inevitable, unless society devices a means of severing interaction with other groups.

What you know today as your Omambala dialect is probably a corruption of its first form forged through time. Some languages have gone extinct e.g Aramaic and our duty should be to preserve the Igbo language and culture the best we can, but note that there must always be external imfluences.

Fawklicant:
I am by no means an authourity in Igbo history, but I will give you my little opinion from some of the researches conducted by scholars in the field.
The etymology of the word Igbo is still subject to debate. But it has been established that it has been used to ascribe identity to folks east of the Niger before the advent of the Europeans. Whereas Igbo consciousness may have been enhanced and brought to fore by the balkanization of the bight of Biafra and the entire Niger area by the Europeans, there are schools of thought that suggest the notion has been there for a long time coming albeit in its subtlety.

The Igbo history is an interesting one and I dont know why it is not incorporated into our primary and secondary school curriculum beyond introductory classes which barely scratch the surface, yet we are subjected to Roman, british and the Ottoman empire studies when we have enough of our own to deal with. That is hypocrisy and short sightedness on the part of our government.

OdenigboAroli:
I know the Orlu and Ihiala area more than you think. And yes they are a mixture of Northern Imo dialect and central Anambra with some exclusive internal items but that's not the issue. My issue is with Igbo Izugbe. It is corrupting our original lects. I will like every Igbo to write in their own dialects that way we can learn other people's tongue with losing our own. Today,Odumchi writes in Aro and I in Idenmili tongue yet we communicate well without losing our original tongue. You don't create new language like the white man did with Izugbe they form by them selves. What you hear in Onicha,Obosi,Nkpor and Ogbaru is a combination of dialects from the original inhabitants of these places. Stop trying to write what people can understand,rather let them ask and learn your dialect.

And don't forget that a lot of these groups in Orsu,Orlu and Okigwe migrated from Anambra,hence the similarities.

playahata:
Nigeria, the most corrupt country in the WORLD thanks to "those leading" in politics, etc

MrkenOkonkwo:
I will
use the money to buy blood tonic for my ur wife.
idiot forming saint.

ddippset:
It's getting clearer and clearer that Rotimi chibuike Amaechi will be minister. The general of common sense revolution! The slayer of Goodluck Jonathan, patience Jonathan, Joseph mbu and nyesom wike. There shall be weeping and grinding of teeth. There shall be wailing in the land!

wytecat:
The topic of the thread is obviously lost on you.
You need to get a life, and just maybe you can do some growing up along the way. You can toy with your fellow iddiots, not me!

wytecat:
The topic of the thread is obviously lost on you.
You need to get a life, and just maybe you can do some growing up along the way. You can toy with your fellow iddiots, not me!

MrkenOkonkwo:
mkpi Hausa.
can anything come our from a drunkard?
keep Deceiving yourself.
BTW great your wife and your daughter for me
dalu

Donkunxex:
welcome to the Htc family

Tallesty1:
BlackBerry’s CEO John Chen confirmed yesterday that the rumors of its first Android device, are indeed accurate.

The report came as a part of the company’s quarterly earnings announcement released Friday, BlackBerry confirmed it would roll out an Android phone in late 2015 and it’s name will be blackberry priv.

“Today, I am confirming our plans to launch Priv, an Android device named after BlackBerry’s heritage and core mission of protecting our customers’ privacy,” BlackBerry CEO John Chen said in a written statement. “Priv combines the best of BlackBerry security and productivity with the expansive mobile application ecosystem available on the Android platform.”

He did not provide any significant details such as specs, pricing, or availability but BlackBerry did say that the phone will be called Priv, ie privacy.

You can recall the CEO once said that if he can secure Android Os then he will consider building one.

Also, BlackBerry’s CEO reaffirmed its commitment to BlackBerry 10 on Friday. The company says it will continue to “develop and enhance the BlackBerry 10 operating system.” The next update for BB10 will be version 10.3.3 rolling out in March.

The official specs of the BlackBerry priv will be revealed in few weeks and there’s a rumor that BlackBerry priv will launch on November.


SOURCE: http://www.naijatecharena.com/blackberry-confirms-rumor-working-android-phone/

wytecat:
Check your restlessness about Yoruba bear me witness.

wytecat:
Right on!

wytecat:
Noticed me

No punk! I'm your fear that keep you up!

wytecat:
You are saying that out of pain and it doesn't matter.

The only confirmed slaves in Nigeria are Ibos, check out how you cry daily of "they won't let us go".

frleopardo:
Someone once asked why is it that the yorubas don't mind their business always poking their nose.
I replied that the yorubas never had any business in the first place. They try to make a business out of other peoples business eg omo nile

chucky101:
This attitude might prolong your search.