Efewestern:


@bolded is itsekiri a dialect or a language.

the only benin influence I can see in itsekiri is the culture, apart from that I don't think itsekiri share anything with Benin again, was having a convoc with a guy about this and he said itsekiri migrated from Benin, but I was told itsekiri only adopted a beni prince.

You can as well list names of animals.

OAUTemitayo and other pro itsekiri on this forum I think this thread will be interesting to you.

cheers!!!

cc: seun, lalasticlala, please move this to fp when the op finishes with his writing.

Itsekiri is a dialect that evolved into a language

onuwaje:


Oritseofemi that's d best Itsekiri translation i can transcribe for now lol

what's the meaning of ofemi? i was thinking he combined itsekiri oriste and Yoruba femi since his mom is Yoruba.

Efewestern:


what's the meaning of ofemi? i was thinking he combined itsekiri oriste and Yoruba femi since his mom is Yoruba.

ofe means love (ife in yoruba)

onuwaje:
ofe means love (ife in yoruba)

so ofemi means my love I guess.
you forgot to add one more thing to this thread. itsekiri cuisine.
oghwo ewa same as oghwo isha (urhobo)

seun
lalasticlala
afam4ever abeg help us promote this thread.

not every time we read things about itsekiri, help promote their identity.. please.

onuwaje:
Popular household items
1. Aga (Chair)
2. Iméjé (Table)
3. Utukpa (lamp)
4. Ekpetin (box)
5. Ukpo (bed)
6. Ésété (plate)
7. Ukujéré (spoon)
8. Uko (cup)
9. Éwo (pot)
10. udayibo (cutlass)
11. uda (sword)

wow! very interesting.
I am from ikare - akoko , ondo state.
Most of Itshekiris language are very similar to ours.that means I can easily understand Itshekiri .
utukpa :lamp
uda:sword
there words are the same in pronunciation and meaning

Efewestern:

so ofemi means my love I guess.
you forgot to add one more thing to this thread. itsekiri cuisine.
oghwo ewa same as oghwo isha (urhobo)

calm down we re getting there

taoheedoriloye:

wow! very interesting.
I am from ikare - akoko , ondo state.
Most of Itshekiris language are very similar to ours.that means I can easily understand Itshekiri .
utukpa :lamp
uda:sword
there words are the same in pronunciation and meaning

one love!

to be honest with you op , Itshekiri language is so similar to ikare - akoko language of ondo state.
Most of all you wrote here makes me think of my home town.
same pronunciation and meaning.
wow! very interesting.
so if I am with Itshekiri may not find it hard to understand what he/she is saying

onuwaje:


one love!

one love to you.
But why and how we are so divided like this.we don't See each other as one people.
who divided us?

taoheedoriloye:
one love to you.
But why and how we are so divided like this.we don't See each other as one people.
who divided us?

divide ke, who is dividing who?

taoheedoriloye:
one love to you.
But why and how we are so divided like this.we don't See each other as one people.
who divided us?

dunno

onuwaje:
next is numbers in Itsekiri i will list 1-20

1. Mééne
2. Meji
3. Mééta
4. Méérén
5. Maaru
6. Mééfa
7. Meeje
8. Mééjó
9. Méésan
10. Méégua
11. Okan légua
12. Eji légua
13. Eta légua
14. Érén légua
15. Maaru légua
16. Éfa legua
17. Mééta ee Jeto Ogun
18. Meji ee Jeto Ogun
19.. Okan ee jeto Ogun
20. Ogun

Is this a Yoruba dialect

taoheedoriloye:

wow! very interesting.
I am from ikare - akoko , ondo state.
Most of Itshekiris language are very similar to ours.that means I can easily understand Itshekiri .
utukpa :lamp
uda:sword
there words are the same in pronunciation and meaning

Very similar to other Yoruba dialects too

kn23h:


Is this a Yoruba dialect

onuwaje:

the Itsekiri is a dialect of the yoruba language that has huge influence from Benin, Urhobo and Ilaje

I hope I answered your question.

ZaraGift:



Urhobo borrowed the words from Itsekiri

uko doesn't sound yoruboid, so how can itsekiri own it? uko and kokodie are pure urhobo word, no doubt urhobo borrowed some words from itsekiri.

Wa do.


This sounds yoruba/ijebu. Great lecture by the way. Can you include audio clips so we can get pronunciation right.

In Igbo,cup is Iko

onuwaje:
the aim of this thread is not in anyway political ethnocentric but for knowledge and learning purpose.


let's begin

Are you sure you are going to keep to this? I want to learn o.

Origin:
Wa do.


This sounds yoruba/ijebu. Great lecture by the way. Can you include audio clips so we can get pronunciation right.

are you itsekiri?

I think the pronouciation is similar to that of Yoruba.

Efewestern:


some words are borrowed from urhobo, They make use of "ts" why Yoruba make use of "sh" but I think they are pronounced same way, the itsekiri language is said to b same with the one spoken in ondo, I don't know how true this Is.

like oriste / orisha
tsola / shola
atuwatse / atuwashe

the op can list more for you, so learning it won't b difficult.

cc:
seun and lalasticlala do the needful

Sound so much like ilaje/ikale language

isekiri are Yoruba descendant. Everything similarity with Great oduduwa,yes!Afonja Lang. IPOB yoots,itsekiri are yoruba from Ondo/Ekiti

Some of these words are similar to Igbo.

streetsoldier1:


Sound so much like ilaje/ikale language

yes, if you read my earlier post I said almost same with ondo dialect, never mind itsekiri still remains a key branch of Yoruba language. a dialect of Yoruba.

but their identity still remains same.

ITSEKIRI.

Nice thread.

ezeagu:
Some of these words are similar to Igbo.

no doubt we all share some few words together, like in urhobo we call blood obara same with you but pronounciation is slightly different, you can as well point out the itsekiri word you think it's igbo.

we are all learning.

ZaraGift:


Urhobo borrowed the words from Itsekiri

it's the other way round

Nicho118:
it's the other way round

apart from uko and kokodie, there are many urhobo words there I don't want to derail the thread.

ipobarecriminals:
isekiri are Yoruba descendant. Everything similarity with Great oduduwa,yes!Afonja Lang. IPOB yoots,itsekiri are yoruba from Ondo/Ekiti

Is it your father's compound that speaks afonja language? Awon flat heads fun e loruko, iwo na n dahun. Reset yourself if you're truly Yoruba, else Yorubas like I on this forum will press your reset.

Efewestern:


apart from uko and kokodie, there are many urhobo words there I don't want to derail the thread.

Teach us more please.