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Bellfun:
Okun oooo...I rep Oweland! Kabba!

Same here. Okun ooooo

gr8 IJESHA NI ERE

I am the areonakankafo of OKUN land...

jomoh:





Stop deceiving yourselves. Oyo has intonation and some other word that are not in WAEC and NECO.

Can u mention one?

bigfrancis21:


Itshekiri name their twins Akowa and Toti, and Yorubas name Taiwo and Kehinde, obviously dissimilar names. How do both sound distantly related to you?

That 'Akowa' means 'the one that arrived first' in Yoruba, the 'Toti' probably means something too in archaic Yoruba...

scholes0:


Oh my goodness.... English is a Germanic language together with Dutch, Frisian, Low German (all siblings) and children of Proto-Germanic, while French , Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish are all Romance languages (children of Latin) - the structure of English is Germanic, although with many borrowed words.

Itsekiri on the other hand has a Yoruba structure, the Yoruba element of Itsekiri is not borrowed.- Without Yoruba words, itsekiri would simply cease to exist. The division is political.

Count 1-10 in Itsekiri for a start.
Even that your Onuwaje name, I know what it means.

Tell me d meaning of my name let me prove ur sorry yoruba ass wrong

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folabayo1:
I rep osun
Igbomina

. ila-orangun or ifedayo??

konkonbilo:
I rep awori-lagos

Kitigbe..??

That Akoko is subdivided to at least another 18 different dialects. That place is the real 'Tower of Babel'

gabriplane:
akowa means first to come which is thesame as taiwo which means first to taste life...

Beautiful. Nice interpretation.

The Yoruba dialect continuum itself consists of several dialects. The various Yoruba dialects in the Yorubaland of Nigeria can be classified into three major dialect areas: Northwest, Central, and Southeast.[9] Of course, clear boundaries can never be drawn and peripheral areas of dialectal regions often have some similarities to adjoining dialects.

North-West Yoruba (NWY).
Abẹokuta, Ibadan, Ọyọ, Ogun and Lagos (Eko) areas
Central Yoruba (CY)
Igbomina, Yagba, Ilésà, Ifẹ, Ekiti, Akurẹ, Ẹfọn, and Ijẹbu areas.
South-East Yoruba (SEY)
Okitipupa, Ilaje, Ondo, Ọwọ, Ikarẹ, Ṣagamu, and parts of Ijẹbu.
North-West Yoruba is historically a part of the Ọyọ empire. In NWY dialects, Proto-Yoruba /gh/ (the velar fricative [ɣ]) and /gw/ have merged into /w/; the upper vowels /i ̣/ and /ụ/ were raised and merged with /i/ and /u/, just as their nasal counterparts, resulting in a vowel system with seven oral and three nasal vowels. Ethnographically, traditional government is based on a division of power between civil and war chiefs; lineage and descent are unilineal and agnatic.

South-East Yoruba was probably associated with the expansion of the Benin Empire after c. 1450 AD.[10] In contrast to NWY, lineage and descent are largely multilineal and cognatic, and the division of titles into war and civil is unknown. Linguistically, SEY has retained the /gh/ and /gw/ contrast, while it has lowered the nasal vowels /ịn/ and /ụn/ to /ẹn/ and /ọn/, respectively. SEY has collapsed the second and third person plural pronominal forms; thus, àn án wá can mean either 'you (pl.) came' or 'they came' in SEY dialects, whereas NWY for example has ẹ wá 'you (pl.) came' and wọ́n wá 'they came', respectively. The emergence of a plural of respect may have prevented coalescence of the two in NWY dialects.

Central Yoruba forms a transitional area in that the lexicon has much in common with NWY, whereas it shares many ethnographical features with SEY. Its vowel system is the least innovating (most stable) of the three dialect groups, having retained nine oral-vowel contrasts and six or seven nasal vowels, and an extensive vowel harmony system.

Pls help me look for itsekiri here

Abeg wetin we go call Akoko (ondo state) own o cos some of dia language be like chinese

Hollaniyii:
Where is Ibadan on this list?

Ibadan people are speaking Oyo dialect

Lagosianswag:
This list is not complete. Egun.

I am not convinced Egun is a Yoruba dialect. Dialects all share words and syntax. I have never heard any recognizable Yoruba words in spoken Egun.

Meanwhile, you forgot Lukumi.

GodMode:


Wetin I do naa

All this misinformation is spoiling history...

all4naija:
Can you prove it?

check it out http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsekiri_language .though i don't believe in theory but my people who relate with them told me they are yorubas

onuwaje:


Pls help me look for itsekiri here

I can't find Awori there too. Does it make it less a Yoruba dialect?

khassy:
I no be Yoruba so how e take concern me now .

enta lagoon

onuwaje:

That's ur opinion

man this is not apinion matter.they are yorubas

omodapson:


I can't find Awori there too. Does it make it less a Yoruba dialect?

To me if it's not there then it's not

moscobabs:
oyo ( is for both OYO and OSUN states )

not all Osun are speaking Oyo dialect and not all Oyo are speaking Oyo dialect

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starlingslimnet:
I detest Yoruba as a whole...... FYI am a Yoruba guy just the whole Lang is bleeped up....

Meanwhile nobody should quote me

Confused dude...please guys contribute some funds to him to help his ignorance...he claims to be Yoruba but hates the language..Lol...

walexy30:
HERE IS THE LIST AND WHERE THE SPEAKERS CAN BE FOUND:

Egba- (OGUN STATE)

Oyo- (OYO STATE AND BENIN REPUBLIC)

Igbomina- (OSUN, KWARA, ONDO, KOGI STATES AND BENIN REPUBLIC)

Okun- (KOGI, ONDO, EKITI STATES)

Itshekiri- (DELTA AND RIVERS STATES)

Ijebu- (OGUN AND LAGOS)

Iseyin- (OYO STATE)

Owu- (OGUN AND OSUN STATE)

Anago- (BENIN REPUBLIC)

Ibolo- (OSUN AND KWARA STATES)

Awori- (LAGOS AND OGUN STATE)

Yewa- (OGUN STATE)

Ekiti- (EKITI AND KWARA STATES)

Ijesa- (OSUN STATE)

Ilorin- (KWARA STATE)

Akoko- (EDO AND ONDO STATES)

Ilaje- (ONDO STATE)

Ife- (OSUN STATE).

Please, there is one dialect I can't remember: They are very close to the ilaje's in Ondo State. If you know it, please, fill the gas.

THANKS.

Igbomina no be OSUN

Adeyinka12:
man this is not apinion matter.they are yorubas

Look, it is their problem if they insist they are not Yorubas. The main thing is, they speak a Yoruba dialect. That needs no argument. It's like Aussies saying they are not British. No wahala; the language you speak nko?

onuwaje:

Bros. Just because latin,spanish,french words re used in english language wud u say that english is a sibling of those languages?

brother I agree with you that itsekiri is not yoruba just like ijebu, egba, owu, ijesha, ekiti e.t.c are not yorubas but we all call ourselves yorubas because the yoruba language is our lingua franca....and our language makes us one..

Adeyinka12:
man this is not apinion matter.they are yorubas

Bros.. we r nt.. because we ve similarity does nt mean itsekiri r yoruba.. we don't even dress d same

if this thread was igbo................... .

OKE OGUN DIALECT IS ISEYIN

gabriplane:
brother I agree with you that itsekiri is not yoruba just like ijebu, egba, owu, ijesha, ekiti e.t.c are not yorubas but we all call ourselves yorubas because the yoruba language is our lingua franca....and our language makes us one..

I wonder why dey fail to understand this

zwar:
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Confused dude...please guys contribute some funds to him to help his ignorance...he claims to be Yoruba but hates the language..Lol...

If you are a Yoruba you will understand