fratermathy:


God forbids it ever gets to that point. As it is now, many people see all of us as Igbos. Even Igbos try to annex us forcefully.

We need to assert ourselves and its not only by mouth but by actions.

Thank God for Sir Anthony Ukere who has launched an Urhobo Language Institute in Abraka. The sad thing is that "lost" students schooling in Abraka don't patronise that Institute so that they can learn their native language. It's such a shame...

Efewestern:
Fratermathy Our parents re d problem, They don't Teach Us our language, The only way u know am Urhobo is my name.. Can't speak It.. Lolz..

LorDBolton:


Smh. See delusion? Igbos that do not even know their history telling us OUR own history? If not cos it's 2016 you will even claim igbos 'own' lagos that many of your ancestors settled here. Mtcheeew

The fact u cannot distinguish between a settlement and owners of a land shows you even a kid who wasn't well groomed.

Even the obi of onithsa cannot open his mouth to say this crap... only GOD can punish the white men who came and released you guys from the captivity oyo, benin and other hausa kingdoms have subjected ya'll to.

Core igbos are black... go and find out the history of the fair skinned ones (they started popping up when the whites came guess u already know y)

Pidggin:
Lol, OP deal with it. I need a language that I can speak and understand when I enter Delta, Cross River, Edo, Akwa ibom , etc. Which one should I pick out of all the languages spoken in these states? PIDGIN wins

Imagine someone above saying Akwa ibom and Cross River have Igbo affiliation. I don't know why you guys are so insecure, it seems your five States are not okay for you hence you want to encroach, it will never happen.

LorDBolton:


Smh. See delusion? Igbos that do not even know their history telling us OUR own history? If not cos it's 2016 you will even claim igbos 'own' lagos that many of your ancestors settled here. Mtcheeew

The fact u cannot distinguish between a settlement and owners of a land shows you even a kid who wasn't well groomed.

Even the obi of onithsa cannot open his mouth to say this crap... only GOD can punish the white men who came and released you guys from the captivity oyo, benin and other hausa kingdoms have subjected ya'll to.

Core igbos are black... go and find out the history of the fair skinned ones (they started popping up when the whites came guess u already know y)

themosthigh:
[b] The truth is that this is happening because urhobo is regarded as an inferior language by even urhobo themselves. That is why the greatest urhobo man and one of our founding fathers cheif okotie eboh went and denounced his race then applied to become and itshekiri man...ceremonies where done accepting him into the itsekiri fold and he forever dissociated himself from the lowly urhobos even though they have the highest population in delta state.
Urhobos are mostly regarded as poorly educated and local thinking savages and have been dominated historically by the itshekiris and ijaws.They possess no oil and are not good farmer and historically serve the superior itshekiris and during the biafran wars supported the nigerian side leading to the masscre of their compatriots who are the delta igbos. It is a thing of pride for an urhobo man to be mixed by blood to itshekiri or better still igbos or yorubas and they are so ashamed of their heritage if not untill recently that their nollywood guys have started embracing it.
They are the abokis of the nija delta and would remain so for a very long time or they should just allow themselves to be assimilated by the larger or more prestigious language groups like igbos or itshekiris

Are u sure u are normal? U seem to have a decimated psyche. Pls go for a brain check. U talk about what u hardly know or understand. Kai.
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Onegai:
Fratermathy, please write Books for schoolchildren in urhobo and Okpe. I promise you I will not only support you with my little financial contribution, I will raise funds for getting them published. Write books and write a dictionary. Get others involved. Have someone organise classes for language and culture studies targeting the young ones. Just keep me in the loop.

soliddust2020:
Kindly tell me the urhobo towns with igbo ancestry. Isoko have a few town with igbo ancestry but most of them are from benin and urhobo, but urhobos migrated from benin. I can tell you the entire urhobo history. Leave urhobo out of your biafra.

Onegai:


Same story everywhere. Even for those who grew up in Delta state. It's too bad. I speak the little I know to my 15 month old baby. I'm planning on joining my mother's socio-cultural group to learn my language, in a few years' time.

Elijahrona2:


Am isoko n have nothing to do with Igbo. Thank you

Igboid:
I often encounter individuals of the two Nigerian largest tribes who believe all Niger Deltans are Igbos. They don't even recognise that most of these tribes have NOTHING to do with Igbo!

The only Niger Delta group that has nothing to do with Ndiigbo is Itsekiri.

It's okay to say that all Niger Deltans are not Igbos, that I agree 100% with. But you start stretching it when you say that MOST of Niger Delta tribes has nothing to do with Ndiigbo.

Infact, the only thing that Unites all Niger Delta tribes culturally, excluding Itsekiri is Shared history with Igbo speaking neighbors.

Urhobo/ Isoko has some towns with Igbo ancestry and still share boundary and cultures with the Igbo speaking Ukwuani even unto today.

Some Esan towns were founded by Igbo speaking people, like wise some Esan people who were absorbed into Igbo speaking Anioma today. As we speak, Ekpon, an Esan town in Edo is losing her Edoid language in favour of an Igboid( Ika) one. And we all know of the Existence of Igbo( Ika) speaking Igbanke people right in Edo state, and the Edo origin stories of many Igbo towns today in Anioma, Anambra, Rivers, and even some Enugu towns.

Ogoni people share a long history with Ndoki Igbo, just as a significant section of Okrika people are said to have originated in Ndoki. Ndoki also has ancestral connection with the Ibani people in Bonny and Opobo as well as with Ibibios.

Ngwa Igbo and Ikwuano Igbos share alot with the Annang people, their interactions was pre colonial as neighbors with Inter marriage and trading as well as diffusion of cultures both ways, like the Ekpo society.

The Aro Igbo people were traversing the entire Ibibio- Efik-Ekoi area,breaking cultural barriers by development of unified cultural ideologies like the Ekpe cult system and the Nsibidi writing system, centuries before the white man created Nigeria and the Urhobo man became aware that there was ever a people called Ibibio- Efik-Ekoi people.
And these people remain neighbors to Aros and to Ehugbo Igbos and Ikwo Igbos even till today.

I can go on and on.

But I'm sure you already get the point.

LagosismyHome:


Are you from Aragba ......and this your statement Stupid wicked maternal kinsmen of mine......na wa oooo

MrAldrick:


If i slap you sense go enter your head. How many times do we the Niger deltans reject you igbos bfore you accept you have been rejected. Kukuma say Niger deltans are Igbos fool. Proudly Ikwerre

LorDBolton:


Smh. See delusion? Igbos that do not even know their history telling us OUR own history? If not cos it's 2016 you will even claim igbos 'own' lagos that many of your ancestors settled here. Mtcheeew

The fact u cannot distinguish between a settlement and owners of a land shows you even a kid who wasn't well groomed.

Even the obi of onithsa cannot open his mouth to say this crap... only GOD can punish the white men who came and released you guys from the captivity oyo, benin and other hausa kingdoms have subjected ya'll to.

Core igbos are black... go and find out the history of the fair skinned ones (they started popping up when the whites came guess u already know y)

martineinstein:
my guy,stop trying to associate ibos with south south....so,u mean all s/south tribes are ibos except itsekiri??...ui are overly delusional.
The illushi/ozigono of esan south west/ esan tribe are typical esans dat trades with ibos and igalas.this is because they share boundaries with anambra and kogi....as a result,most of dem speak ibo,igala and esan....stop claiming edo state...even delta ibos and edo ibos dont like being calledd ibos

CeoMYN:

Niger Delta Is Not Igbo!

LKO:


We are on same page my brother. I questioned that position also. Go to Ekpan, u would get more than a thousand speakers of the Uvwie dialect. Go to Mereje, u would get more than a thousand speakers of the Okpe dialect.

All in all, we should strive to speak our language, it's our identity.

CeoMYN:

Niger Delta Is Not Igbo!

MrAldrick:


If i slap you sense go enter your head. How many times do we the Niger deltans reject you igbos bfore you accept you have been rejected. Kukuma say Niger deltans are Igbos fool. Proudly Ikwerre

Igboid:


Niger Delta is not a name of an ethnic group. It's not even an African language. So obviously it can't be Igbo or any other African ethnic group for that matter.

Geez, where are these people crawling out from?

Igboid:


Niger Delta is not a name of an ethnic group. It's not even an African language. So obviously it can't be Igbo or any other African ethnic group for that matter.

Geez, where are these people crawling out from?

ogorwyne:

Fratermathy let's talk about the Orogun people. I just want to know, a friend from that town claims they are not Urhobos neither are they Ukwuani. They speak my language Ukwuani, and whenever I say they speak Ukwuani she says the language is Orogun. Meaning the people of Orogun speak 'Orogun'. U seem to know a lot, what tribal group do the Orogun people fall under?

Enuguboy4nsk:

is Niger Delta a tribe-----NO
is Niger Delta a state-----No
is Niger Delta a geopolitical zone---No

be proud of your tribe or if u have lost touch with your tribe just like op u can mention your state...

last time i checked Ondo a yoruba state is in Niger delta
Imo and Abia; both igbo states are in Niger Delta too

it sucks for one to lose his/her identity

CeoMYN:
I call South South Niger Delta. Abeg Igbos we are not you people, be contented with your land.

bigfrancis21:


You see learning a language is not difficult, it is all about making efforts to speak it. I was not raised with Igbo as a child though my mom switched from English to Igbo when she saw we had picked up English, I didn't really make efforts to start speaking until my university days. Now I speak it fluently like I was raised with it. This was possible because I went out of my way to speak it. I not only speak it but read and write it fluently. Had a B2 in Igbo in my GCE exam in SS2 even though I wasn't speaking then but my reading and writing were excellent. You can only wish to speak a language but if you do not make attempts at speaking it you will not learn to speak it.

The beginning may be somewhat hard, but just continue. 2 to 3 years from now your speaking skills will improve. Remember, kids who speak Urhobo or English did not just learn it in 1 year. They spoke it continuously for several years from age 2 to age 5/6 (at least 3 years) with corrections by parents here and there until they mastered it. It is the same way for adult learners too.

Just make the effort to start speaking. Also watch Urhobo movies too. It helps. Remember the key is to speak, speak and keep speaking.

CeoMYN:

I call South South Niger Delta.
Abeg Igbos we are not you people, be contented with your land.

247Dior:
I hate dumb peeps.. he commented with historical facts and evident, y not prove him wrong with your own facts and not allow your hatred for igbos to control u.. at the end saying trash

CeoMYN:

see I term south south Niger Delta. I am from Rivers state, and the six ss states are not igbos. Period!