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LOL wazz all deez....


Why did the Admin blurr out the Zoo in the Tochukwu original post?

Probz:
It's nonsense that you don't know agidi and oka are used in Yoruba being the afonja supremacist you are.

It is used but it is called Egidi not Agidi.
And yes Oka means corn in Yoruba.

Too bad.

It is quite a shame that one of our major tribes here in Nigeria are the ones responsible for 99.8% of the Nigerians in those prisons.

They have turned themselves into a laughing stock of drug peddlers and crime facilitators.

O ma se o!

fratermathy:
Itsekiris should stop fanning the embers of discord. What is there in living peacefully with your ethnic neighbours? Must you claim that the whole Delta belong to you before you can have peace of mind?

Every ethnic group in the Lower Niger migrated there at some point. We aren't aborigines of the lands we currently occupy and so I wonder how the Itsekiris think they actually own the land when it is proven historically that they are the most recent settlers in the region. Because of their romance with the colonial masters, they were able to oppress the Ijaws and Urhobos in Warri, change the title of their monarch to reflect the entire Warri as if they solely own it and marginalise other ethnicities in Warri. The crises of 1999-2003 have not taught them any lesson.

Itsekiris should leave land issue and start focusing on their political existence in contemporary Nigeria, as well as how to save their tribe from extinction. You cannot be sandwiched by major tribes and start fighting them from all sides. It just doesn't work.

Every ethnic group in Warri knows their place and have their monarchs. That is the status quo and no Itsekiri should attempt to claim the impossible. It won't work. Warri is collectively owned by Ijaw, Urhobo and Itsekiri (each controlling their areas) and the city is generally populated by Urhobos.

CC:Lalasticlala, this should be on FP

I think for once you should drop your hate for the Itsekiri aside and realize that the Ijaws are the real threat here, not the Itsekiris.

An adage says when a member of one's household is eating a bad insect and no one warns him/her against its adverse effects, the groaning and wailing of agony will not let the entire household sleep at night.
That is what you and the majority of Urhobo people are doing, burying your heads in the sand and making the enemy of your enemy your "friend". Until the other enemy is out of the picture, you will discover that your own heads are next on the guillotine of Ijaw expansionist agenda.

USAbabe:
Ijaw people should stand against any form of threats around them

Those itshekiris are not to b trusted

The Ijaws are the actual THREATS to the very existence of every ethnic nationality in the South South.
Stop playing victim, the ijaws are known to be agressors and notorious for Land grabbing.

Who named Ogbe Ijaw "New Warri" ? So because Ode Itsekiri is called Big warri (Which is what Ode Itsekiri actually means in English), the Ijaws too now want to name their Ogbe Ijo "New Warri" ? lol

The name "Warri" is historically associated with the Itsekiri Ethnic nationality, and any attempt by the expansionist Ijaws to appropriate that name to themselves will NOT WORK.

Ijaw Land grabbers at it again....


These Ijaws ehn!

Grave of a terrorist

Emancipate yourselves from Mental slavery.

Bob marley - 1970.

Fine art practical and JETS club
Sec school things.

laudate:
Oga, what is your problem? Was my last remark addressed to you? You can guess as much as you like. That is your own kettle of fish. I told you before to leave me alone with this IPOB crew, who like to dictate to everybody what their ethnicity should be, and what their language sounds like. Instead, you are here trying to form I-too-know (ITK).Ok, the language in your videos does NOT sound Yoruba to me What will you now do? Carry Cane? Haba!! Face your calabash, o!

Let the Igala indigenes tell me what their language sounds like!

lol, so what does it sound like to you? Gbagyi or Jarawa?
At this rate, It will probably take me less than 8 weeks to master the remaining rudiments of Igala language that are unknown to me.
I am even thinking of vacationing 1 month in Idah to do just that sef.

I know you have an agenda.... but try to be rational when trying to carry it out.

laudate:
What is languished?? I no talk am? I knew you would go down this route. You started this thread on a note of enquiry, and you have now rushed into a definitive lane by dictating what kind of language Igala resembles, or what class it belongs to. Why am I not surprised?? Stop dictating to the Igala what their language is or what it is not!

What are you even talking about? I am guessing you are from one of these tribes in the NC that want to deny the linguinstic links of Yoruba and Igala.
If this language does not sound like Yoruba to you, then I don't know what will... Heck, I even understand some of it!.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR8AAuMJe_k


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfmcO0v3v9o


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kEzXuT2L3M

laudate:
Which worst? Did anyone say that I am like you? You guys are the ones that spark fire and brimstone over ethnic issues. It is only trouble makers like you, that like to decide what ethnicity a person should bear, and also go out of their way to determine what language sounds like the next, even when they cannot speak the languages in question.

Like I said, I am waiting for the Igala indigenes to come in here. Stop deciding for them, whether their language sounds Yoruba, Yoruboid or whatever.

Nobody is calling Igalas Yoruba, and Yorubas are clearly not claiming them in anyway, but the Language surely does sound Yoruba. I even learnt that in the core North, they are regarded as one and the same with Yoruba people.
What is your tribe sef.

bigfrancis21:
Na correct To think that both groups fight on nairaland everyday when there are similarities between both.

It's interesting to find that Yoruba has two words for 'come', 'bo' and 'wa' am I correct? How are both words used in sentences?

Igbo has just one 'bia' regardless of speech type.

Wa is Present: (Come)
Come here (Wa ni ibi)

Bo is present continuous: (Coming)
I am coming (Mo n bo)

lol, How many militant groups are in this region, for crying out loud?
Everyone dey fight for hin own pocket. Probably a coalition of aggrieved groups that are disappointed that they were left out in favor of more recognized groups.

not all three.
One of the three. That disputed field belongs to one of the three states - and they must resolve that first.
Also, pls its high time they separate bulk oil producers like Delta and Rivers from marginal producers like Edo and Lagos.
Just not the same class as all.

bigfrancis21:
Ya I agree with you except that Igboid diversion would probably be the earliest or first given the complexity of Igbo compared to the more easier Yoruba.

Igbo and Yoruba are definitely related. I also see the usage of 'o' in both languages as pronouns. For example, he/she has come in Igbo would be 'o biala', which would be similar in Yoruba too.

O na-abia - he/she is coming.

Please give us some examples of similar usages in Yoruba starting with the 'o' pronoun.

Yoruba:

O n bo - He/she/It is coming

bigfrancis21:
Ya even their accent too sounds Yoruboid. I don't speak nor understand Yoruba but I've heard Igala being spoken severally and it just sounded like Yoruba to me.

Wa ka kpa eja

Interestingly, the same statement in Igbo would be:

Bia ka anyi kpata azu (come let us catch fish, word for word).

Interesting.
If you were asked to discuss how all these Nigerian (Southern) languages originated without choosing an Igbo centric model (Because I know you ).... How would you say them all came about?
I think they all originated in Central Nigeria and bifurcated into three branches, Yoruboid, Edoid and Igboid.
Ibibio has links to Cameroon which is like the school next door, while Ijaw is that weird orphan child that no one in the classroom understands.

Probz:
That's right. How mutually intelligible are Igala and Yoruba languages?

Igala is like an old Yoruba substrate speech that has received lots of infusions from "strange" (so to speak) languages from Jukun to Idoma to Igbo (In the southern extremities like Ibaji. With all these additions, it has somewhat morphed into something else.
some consonants seem to have also mutatedd in Igala and deviated from what seem their original form.

i.e R to L, J to BI, N to L
For example

Eje (Seven) = Ebie
Aja (Dog) = Abia
Ori (Head) = Oji
Ale {Night) = Ane
Enu, Arun (Mouth) = Elu/Alu
Akere (Frog) = Akele
Orun (Sun) = Olu
E.tc

Yoruba and Igala languages are like/akin to Igbo and Ekpeye (I hope I am right)
Short speeches are more understandable to speakers of both than longer discussions.

I.e

I am Hungry
Yoruba: Ebi n kpa mi
Igala: Ebi a kpa mi

Come and let's catch Fish:
Yoruba: Wa ka kpa Eja
Igala: Wa ka kpa Eja

Let us bring / pull ourselves together, and stay together.
Igala: Je kafola wa mola, kajo kpai ola wa
Yoruba: Je Kafara wa mora, kajo kpelu ara wa

God, Give/bring me a child
Olorun, Gb'omo fun mi
Ojo, Gb'oma du mi

Listen to me, I am eating three black Bananas (unripe) with yams tomorrow.
T'eti gbo mi, Maa je ogede dudu meta kpelu Isu ni ola
N'eti gbo mi, Naa je ogede dudu meta kpai utsu ni ona.

Give the watch onyour hand to me
Mu ago owo e fun mi
Mu ago owo e du mi



Overall, I can get the general "hint" of what an igala person is saying, but nothing concrete.

Nigeria on fire

Wahala in every corner.

Highness of where?

Of china?

Yoruba and computer..

5 & 6

Yoruba reigns supreme everywhere in the West + Kwara.
Pidgin has some grounds in Lagos, cause of the heavy migrant population there..
Lagos is like 40:40:20 (English:Yoruba:Pidgin)

When I saw Ibadan there, I was like what a joke.

Eledan:
That rubbish old Upholstery material naa that ou dey hype! You need a head of examination

Akwa Oche, Akwa Curtain Etc...

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3826/33223109026_3bb4d632fb_b.jpg

KADUNA!

Marginalization of the state's southern christian populace and deliberate policies to exclude them from governance and other positions. massive financial looting, Elite cabal of crooks etc etc