I’m from Anambra State but I have maternal links to Igala so my mum’s side of the family speaks a decent range of Nigerian languages. My mum’s grandma was from Nsukka and she married an Idah man and her daughter (my grandma) married an Awka man. She’s bilingual in Igala and general Northern Igbo (Nsukka and Awka dialects). My mum picked up Yoruba in Lagos and she was born in Kogi during the war so she can understand about a third of Igala. Her sister was born in Borno so she’s bilingual in Igbo and Hausa. My paternal side’s monolingual in Igbo. That’s four languages represented in my family – the main three (Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) + Igala. Yours?

I've noticed that most people from Awka are a little mixed with Igala and my maternal side's no exception. Not surprising.

Op this your explanation na agbaka'm ishi

Anyways we speak just
Igbo

Born and bred in pH and
I can't speak ikwerre what a shame!

Probz,

You are probably from Umuzocha or Umubele on your mum's side. Those are the two Awka villages with the strongest Igala links. Oh yes, Umudioka, too.

I am from Umuzocha myself. Sometimes we get called 'Ndu Igala' (Igala people) by the other Awka villages. My grandfather and many Umuzocha men of his generation spoke fluent Igala. It doesn't seem that they passed on that knowledge though, because my father and his siblings can't speak it.

AjaanaOka:
Probz,

You are probably from Umuzocha or Umubele on your mum's side. Those are the two Awka villages with the strongest Igala links. Oh yes, Umudioka, too.

I am from Umuzocha myself. Sometimes we get called 'Ndu Igala' (Igala people) by the other Awka villages. My grandfather and many Umuzocha men of his generation spoke fluent Igala. It doesn't seem that they passed on that knowledge though, because my father and his siblings can't speak it.

Umuzocha's the one, yup.

Probz:


Umuzocha's the one, yup.

Your ikwunne is in Umuzocha?

Ngwa, nwadiana gbuo ikpele!

6 languages.
Igbo, Yoruba, Edo,
German, English
Arabic and Italian
Anyone here

AjaanaOka:


Your ikwunne is in Umuzocha?

Ngwa, nwadiana gbuo ikpele!

Radoillo nwanne, longest time. Where have you been all these while?

My family is entirely Igbo onn both sides. However just one of my paternal direct cousins married out and he has a wife from the yoruba side of kogi.

AjaanaOka:


Your ikwunne is in Umuzocha?

Ngwa, nwadiana gbuo ikpele!

Ekele m unu ooo

Igbo and Yoruba.

Probz:
I’m from Anambra State but I have maternal links to Igala so my mum’s side of the family speaks a decent range of Nigerian languages. My mum’s grandma was from Nsukka and she married an Idah man and her daughter (my grandma) married an Awka man. She’s bilingual in Igala and general Northern Igbo (Nsukka and Awka dialects). My mum picked up Yoruba in Lagos and she was born in Kogi during the war so she can understand about a third of Igala. Her sister was born in Borno so she’s bilingual in Igbo and Hausa. My paternal side’s monolingual in Igbo. That’s four languages represented in my family – the main three (Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) + Igala. Yours?

I've noticed that most people from Awka are a little mixed with Igala and my maternal side's no exception. Not surprising.

oh so you want to claim to be Igala because you so ashamed of being onye igbo in apu ala!! well we only speak Ibo in my Ouse ok well when I was living in ogwashi ukwa ok

bigfrancis21:
My family is entirely Igbo onn both sides. However just one of my paternal direct cousins married out and he has a wife from the yoruba side of kogi.

I see. Kogi's definitely an interesting state.

I am from Atani, Arochukwu. Arochukwu people are Igbos mixed with Ibibio, Efik, and Ekoi. Today, my family only speak Igbo though.

AjaanaOka:
Probz,

You are probably from Umuzocha or Umubele on your mum's side. Those are the two Awka villages with the strongest Igala links. Oh yes, Umudioka, too.

I am from Umuzocha myself. Sometimes we get called 'Ndu Igala' (Igala people) by the other Awka villages. My grandfather and many Umuzocha men of his generation spoke fluent Igala. It doesn't seem that they passed on that knowledge though, because my father and his siblings can't speak it.

That's interesting. My mother's side is from Nri which is right by Awka. Nri people are a mixture of Igbo and Igala ancestry too. My maternal family only speak Igbo today but our ancestors understood and spoke Igala.

AtaniWarrior:

That's interesting. My mother's side is from Nri which is right by Awka. Nri people are a mixture of Igbo and Igala ancestry too. My maternal family only speak Igbo today but our ancestors understood and spoke Igala.

I'm from Agukwu Nri too.

Probz:
I'm from Agukwu Nri too.

My brethren. I salute you.

AtaniWarrior:

My brethren. I salute you.

Agukwu or Akankpisi - what's your side of Nri?

Probz:
Agukwu or Akankpisi - what's your side of Nri?

My mother is from Agukwu. She is from Obeagu village. You?

AtaniWarrior:

My mother is from Agukwu. She is from Obeagu village. You?

Umu Mbe. I've got cousins from Uro Orji.

Igbo Igbo and Igbo,Dad forbade us from speaking English at home

unu luo na uno a'ukwo unu asuba oyibo ebea he would say
Villagers always find it hard to believe we live in Lagos,they used to think we were based in Onitsha or anywhere in Igboland cos we spoke conc Igbo

Probz:
Umu Mbe. I've got cousins from Uro Orji.

Small world.

AtaniWarrior:

My mother is from Agukwu. She is from Obeagu village. You?

Dad’s side: same Obeagu, umu-mbe clan (paternal grandma from Agulu). Mum’s side: Isiagu-Amikwo, Awka (nee Umuzocha, Awka for her own mum; maternal grandma’s mum from Eha-Ndiagu, Nsukka). For 2 generations of lineage anyway. Core Nri-Awka Anambra Igbo na munwa. Absolutely no-one on this planet can tell me that I’m a fake Igbo, if there even is such a thing (although some people are much more Igbotic than others, no doubt). I was at a hotel in Awka recently and some random guy even asked me if I’m from Amikwo village. Didn’t want to answer that question because I don’t get personal with total strangers in the flesh but he was kinda onto something. Somehow. Maybe have a slight ‘Amikwo look’ about me. I dunno.

Also, I hear what you saying about the whole Umuzocha distin. The thing with my mum’s mum is that she actually had to flee to Idah during the Biafran war so she probably would’ve learnt Igala anyway but the fact that she’s Umuzochan might have had something to do with it. She’s no more (died about 17 years ago) but she spoke Igala as well as Igbo right ’til the end. How much of Umuzocha village actually has Igala heritage?

I used to think that Akankpisi was just the other side of Nri but it turns out that Nri is actually just Agukwu-Nri (for all the offshoots, like Ogwashi-Ukwu and, indeed, Akankpisi, that exist) and Akankpisi is its own village. Is that the truth?