WIKITONGUES: Valentine speaking Igbo
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- This video was recorded in Worcester, USA by Wikitongues volunteer Noah Sullivan. Igbo is spoken by upwards of 25 million people, primarily in the west African nation of Nigeria, where it is a lingua franca alongside English, Hausa, and Yoruba, as well as in Equatorial Guinea, where it enjoys a degree of official status as a recognized minority language. A literary language since the late eighteenth century, Igbo is written using a form of the Latin Alphabet known as Önwu. Culturally, proverbs feature prominently in Igbo speech, having been described by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe as "the palm oil with which words are eaten". Read more on Wikipedia: bit.ly/2czV5S6.
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thanks for this. despite its 27 million speakers, it is shockingly hard to find good, clear spoken igbo
Lmao I'm pretty sure we're 46 million
Most of them assimilated after migrating from Bahr el Ghazal. So there is variations in their tongue.
Try 70 million and counting.
@@PollahKelvin 😂😂😂...
@@raphrobe-9896Igbo speakers are a going down in numbers they way things are going. Parents just dont want to teach their children bcs they think it will distort the childs english.
Homie was fighting them bugs
Should've taken shower.
@@saamohod no.
@@saamohod no.
@@saamohod last time i checked bugs dont care weather u've taken a shower or not, they still bug you...
LMAO 😭
I was so excited to see this video in my feed - I'm halfway through Half of a Yellow Sun, it's awesome to hear Igbo spoken!
Nice to know. Igbo is an interesting language.
Yesssss, for me it was "purple hibiscus". Chimamanda is awsome
Things Fall Apart for me
Just finished it and that's why I'm here.
I wish I could speak igbo like this it’s so beautiful and calming.
Please are you from Equatorial Guinea?
give me your Facebook i will help you
it kinda reminds me of hawaiian, in how it's so soft-sounding that it doesnt even register as words to my ears
@@samuelgilbert7034 he is an Igbo man from Nigeria. Apparently there are a lot of igbos that migrated to Equatorial Guinea in times past
I don't speak Igbo, but I speak Vietnamese, and one trait they share is that they're both tonal languages. It's interesting to hear the tones. I also like how it sounds. Sounds like a language that's hard to begin, but easily acquirable if you know the basics.
It's funny, here in Australia I hear Igbo all the time - my Nigerian flatmate speaks it on the phone. :)
@The Article queer
Owo uno onu owo uno owo
@The Article umm,, wym? are u implying that igbo is not a "human" language.. ??
@@zioidberg yep, he's racist
@Deutsche Geschichte -The Article- tf are you implying....
If you’ve ever taken a cab or Uber in Chicago than you’ve probably heard this being yelled over a Bluetooth headset 😂 in all seriousness it’s a beautiful language.
Good stuff! I first became aware of Igbo after watching October 1; I had no idea how linguistically diverse Nigeria is. I think it's 3rd or 4th in the run-down of countries with the most languages, after PNG and Indonesia. Thanks for your contribution Valentine.
Ibo sounds beautiful! They have the underrated language !!!
Ọ bụrụ Asụsụ Ndi IGBO
@@kamnyechukwuekene ibo😀
Where my nigerian fam at i understand 100%
yussss igbo tribe 4 life
Igbo kwenu
i understood everything he said. thanks for the advice :)
Are you Igbo?
Francis Maduakor why are you gae
@@ross_knight what do u think
@@zioidberg but are you really Igbo
He is sooo handsome.
He looks like shreks wife
@@IStoleYourSandwich 💀stop no he doesn't lol
Yes. I watched the whole thing and I can't speak a word of Igbo hahahah
@@IStoleYourSandwich you childish leave my west Africa
Brother alone at least he speaks
His native language not the colonized languages
@@bolayul291 everyone in the cities speaks the colonized languages in west africa from what i've read. i think u mean not "just" the colonized languages.
Sounds like my uncle when I ask him where's the money he owes me
I am Nigerian but i was never taught . I really want to learn
I can help you
owo uwu owo uwu owo uwu owo uwu owo uwu owo uwu owo uwu owo uwu owo uwu owo
owo uwu owo
*human trafficking*
"A person who suffers from sexual misconduct may be vulnerable to being diagnosed with cancer" I fucking can't .....
Ewe owo uwu?
owo uwu uwu owo
Beautiful ❤. I can’t wait until our native tongue is restored. TMH promises all things. Jeremiah chap 30 Jeremiah chap 31 Zephaniah 3:8-20
Native tongue? What does this vid have to do with the bible?
he's quite handsome not gonna lie
I’m trying so hard to speak Igbo! Odimpa isu Igbo maca omenani bu important shiné! ❤️
I understood about 60% of what he said. Wish I was fluent. Gotta practice
lorelei i can teach you
I understood about 5%. I have a long way to go..
I understood most of it. Especially after listening a second tine
What did he say though?
@@flusheroftoilets420it was about his experience coming to america and how he has been settling in.
we love u Bro God bless you more
Igbo amaka. Ndewo nwannem. Ya gaziere gi. Umu igbo subanu igbo n'igbo amaka
Igbo only has 8 adjectives
Is Igbo the language will a bunch of cases? Or am I thinking of something else?
Really? What are they?
Adjectives represent a closed class in Igbo, predicates like "it's green" are usually coded by verbs (if memory serves), something like "it greens". If adjectives are a closed class in a language, they almost always include good/bad, tall/short, big/small, old/young etc. which are all relevant to humans.
"Emenanjo (1978)[9]: ukwu 'big', nta 'small'; oji 'dark', ọcha 'light'; ọhụrụ 'new', ochie 'old'; ọma 'good'; ọjọọ 'bad'."
Wow, thanks for your in-depth answer. So Igbo has stative verbs?
Connor Murphy I honestly can't say with any certainty, but I do have a vague memory of that.
Nwanne mmadu, Chukwu gozie gi nnoo
This is funny, because I know him
LOL
That man is a Ugandan luo, his name is David Nyakorach Matsanga.
I never heard him say..'ooooooh' I don't know how to speak igbo .but I understand few names like oga,agwu.tofiakwa.igwe.to name a few .Im a south african..I like it when u people say.. 'I'm finished oooooo'
Nwanne Dalu! Dishike nno’ E metereya offumo
☺️ gi si ike
I bet Derek Luke is Igbo himself because him and this man looks alike
Dificil mas nao impossível. eu vou aprender.
Há uma aplicação se chama Mango Languages que o ensinar. Isso é como estou aprendendo agora mesmo.
Where is this guy from?
Nigeria but speaks Igbo language
@@oge82 Igbo is nigerian? There is a region whichis mainly igbo
What is the name of the country?
@RED RED no it’s not it’s Igbo and the guy who asked has an Igbo name. We are Biafran.
I don't know what's up with various African languages and saying "so" in English. I hear it all the time withYoruba speakers who will be speaking 99% pure Yoruba yet keep saying "so" in between sentences. Then a couple days ago I watched a video of South Sudanese dance and the woman was doing the same thing with Dinka. And now in Igbo... (this guy doesn't say "so" a lot, but still at least 4 or 5 times)
its weird.. there is no way to say “so” sooo
Our languages are quite old. I would say Igbo and yoruba are in SOME aspects quite similar. Althought they’re expressive tonal langauges that are quite old and dont have words for everything like west african languages.
probably because it's 1 syllable and because it is used often as a thought/sentence transition, it's easily compatible with different sentence structures because it simply goes in between them. that's my guess.
Igbo and Yoruba native speakers grow up speaking English alongside too. In igbo, they tend to use English within the Igbo. Probably just what he's used too because he speaks English at an essentially native degree so it's not harder or anything just habitual
is it true that their is indigenous igbo people in bioko
Joshua sorin no, they went there for work
Yes
Yes, in Equatorial Guinea. It was discovered not quite long.
@@obumnemeezeudu6839 Just say you just discovered, it's well known for centuries, When you hear Panya that's what they mean!
@@diourankeIgbos leave in Bioko for centuries and are recognized as indigenous! Just like Fulanis are not Indigenous to Nigeria and Guinea, fulanis came their as nomads.
I understood everything he said but Is he from Igbo land?
WHY DO YOU ASK
OMG It kind of sounds like Jamaican or other Caribbean "languages". That was kind of surprising!
MultiSciGeek I don't think it sounds like caribbean
But to me it kind of does
MultiSciGeek really? I just don't seem to hear it but I can actually say that in my jamaican patois there is a word which we use is called unu which is from the igbo language
***** what is potopoto
***** yes. That is so true
owo uwu uwu owo
do you know what covid-19 is
residing at the remote rural area with the disturbing flies is better than living at the center of New York with racism and police brutality
There's plenty of corruption and police brutality in Nigeria 😂
@@rorycreane7581wayyy worse than that of america lmfao
*OWO*
Yo, I just watched two videos . One from here and the other from 2nacheki. I also watch laoshu505000 Im really inspired to learn a lot of languages
same!!!!!
Crazy how much he sounds Caribbean
Sunnydftw I don't actually hear any caribbean accent.
The words unu and soso in Jamaican patois come straight from igbo
For those that dont know creole/ kweyol in the Caribbean is influenced mainly by African languages (yoruba, hausa, igbo, and akan) and french.
A lot of Caribbean islands dont speak kweyol anymore because the language died out (due to people thinking it was an inferior language and only poor people use it, since it comes from slaves) but I'm from dominica and we still speak it there, and even though I dont know what he is saying he does actually sound like a kweyol speaker to me just with words I dont know lol.
I love that i can hear where the roots to my language come from in his speech.
Can you link a video of a Caribbean that sounds like this?
@@Tu51ndBl4d3 pls do
Sounds like he's from Anambra.
I might be late but he doesn't sound like he's from Anambra at all. He sounds like someone from Imo State. I could tell the minute he said "Aham bu..." If he was From Anambra/Enugu he would of said Afam bu. Not to mention he used alot of Hs and Rs when he was talking, a characteristic of Imo/Abia state people's Igbo.
Yeah, you're right, he has a strong Anambra accent. He kept trying to speak the academic Igbo accent, but his Anambra accent keeps coming in. Aha m, which means 'my name', is a pure academic accent and it's also Abia and Imo accent, but Anambra says Afa m. Apart from that and few other phrases, 95% of all he said is in a particular dialect found in Anambra state.
I agree with you he is from Anambra, sounds Anambra
He sounds Imo. He sounds like one of my homies. Not Anambra at all
Abeg, who is this guy?
Why my cousin on youtube😭
Hasan Gondal
He looks like one hell of a guy.
owo uwu owo uwu owo uwu owo uwu owo
Mortgage loan money loan business loan
That's what you just said.
0:02 abbiamo?
Abiam obodo...
this means I came (to this) country...
vidio a dị jụụ
he kind of sounds like anglo carribean people....
Yeah, but I was talking specifically about Igbo. There were probably Igbo slaves in every colony in the Americas, but those ones in particular got a lot.
Also there was no concept at all of "Nigeria" back in those days. Nigeria was created as a British colony and its territory has no relation to ethnicity or pre-colonial organization.
Very true.
Igbos are there too. The Trans-Alantic Slave Trade took them far and wide.
Low key sounds like mans not hot guy
Igbo mmabala
Owo uwu owo
Owo owu owo
Sounds like Igbo would be a very difficult language to learn, sounds interesting tho.
It’s one of the most difficult languages in Nigeria I’m still struggling
uwu
You can hear in the glottal sounds and speech patterns, this is the Semitic tongue
How?
@@amiliarek7521 she used linguistics terminology so you may not find it easy to understand
@@adaruby5437 oh well
Nope! It's not semitic. It's bantu
@@chinedufedrick1694 lie igbo is not Bantu
owo owo owo owo owo owo owo uwu
*human traficking*
Owo uwu uwu owo
Wow I didn't think there was a way to make it translate to homosexuality
owo uwu owo
entendi vei, os animais sao tudo porcos mesmo!
Believe it or not but the language the Igbo speak is actually Hebrew.
Maria Smith
Why don't you look it up on google?
@Maria Smith The language the igbo speaks is hebrew,
TETRAGRAMMATON
Say "Jew" or “JuHu” or "JHuWHu{YHuWHu} or "CHuWHu"
when ever you want to pronounce the Most Holy Name of the Hebrew’s God.
It’s meaning :
JHi/YHi/CHi/SHi [not JHa nor JaH nor iSHi] means:
👉🏾 SHi/etc = God (Hosea 2:16 KJV)
and
👉🏾 WHu/uWHu = (biggest)!
Meaning:
God-Biggest/Almighty} is YH-WH/ JH-WH/ CH-WH.
NB: ancient Hebrews never wrote with vowels but rather with CONSONANTS only.
CHuWHu / CHukWHu / JHuWHu / YHuWHu = {consonants and vowels}
The very first secrete every new comer(convert) must know or learn is this name, if they wished to be perfect in all areas of their lives. Abiama (Abram Abraham Ibrahim Brahma).
Ancient Hebrews did not write with vowels in ancient times: They only wrote with CONSONANTS hence the coinage Tetragrammaton! meaning the FOUR CONSONANT LETTERS WHICH REPRESENTS THE MOST HOLY NAME OF THEIR GOD!
ONLY THE "IBOS"
ARE THE LOST "HEBREWS".
THE TETRAGRAMMATON JHWH | YHWH: among other things GAVE THEM OFF!
There are about more than 15Thousand languages on earth and about more than 10Thousand already in Africa.
Non of them have the phrase
"God Almighty" in their local dialects as the only name of their One True God except the Ibos!
Not only that:
In those thousands of languages,
non of them could speak the name of their One True God in a manner that the sound that such name would make could match exactly as the sound and the letters of the mysterious TETRAGRAMMATON:
JHWH or YHWH when the vowels are removed in the spellings than the Ibos!
You see when the Ibos pronounce the name of their One True God, which before now: say maybe the antediluvian era was: "YHuWHu" and later: say some thousands of years back was: "JHuWHu" and presently now is: "CHuWHu"..
Every blind, deaf and dumb person on earth could obviously see, hear and PERCIVE THEIR TRUTH!
eg: ANCIENT NAMES LIKE: "#oJHuWHu" pronounced as (#ojukwu) still means "#Oh_God".
Micah 7:15 KJV
[15] According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto #hee: marvellous things.
The name "God Almighty" or CHWH JHWH or YHWH is the only and single proof that only them, the Ibos of the Subsahara, where 100% of the stock of the slaves during the transatlantic slave trade came from to the Americas are the only lost 10 tribes of Northern Hebrew iZrael also called as oFeReMiRi [eFeReMiRi {EPHRAIM} = I crossed over waters] 2Edsdras 13:45.
“Shihabbatha izu ike m di Nso” : meaning “tell them to come in for my Holy rest.” Shihabbatha was mistranslated to “Sabbath”
For “Amarachi” (CHWH’s favor) they gave you Mary. For Manuenu (person from above) they gave you Imanuel
For Chikobu (He is Chi) they gave you Jacob. For Ishiaku (head of wealth) they gave you Isaac = meaningless names
Chimeludikeze (Chi ordained king) is what they juxtaposed to give you Melchizedek the once king of Salem met by Abiama(ABrAM)
There aint no such a thing as igbo’s speaking the same language as hebrews. Our languages and history are completely diffrent. Try speaking igbo to a jew and see if they’ll understand what you’re saying.
nani the vittu are you saying
Is he reciting a valentine? Why have it in the title if you don't even know what he's saying?
@ I'm so embarrassed for the misunderstanding, lol. Ty for the correction.
@ that's a good name. :) My oldest has the female derivative of that name, Valentina, as her middle name.
His name is valentine and believe it or not, it is possible to understand this African language. at least 20 million people speak it.
he didn't say ooga booga.... my disapointemed ne is imeersturalble and my day is runig?
weak troll. get back to the flamebait workshops
Guys, I think it’s trying to communicate
Burkinfaso - wagadugudugusudugu✊🏻
uwu uwu owo
owo uwu owo
owo uwu owo