OgidiBoy:

My apologies, writing and reading in Igbo is something I'm not very good at. I thought romeo was Imo state that's why he spelled it arakuba.

LoL Romeo is from Enugu

Arakuba - Alakuba
Okoro - Okolo
Ebere - Ebele
Ihe - Ife
Ekele - Ekene

Hope you got it

@Romeo
Nwoke beanyi dalu, da eje oo
kedu ife dia?
I was born in emene Enugu but home town Mbaise Imo state

@poster, well i have done my own research and i found that your people migrated from sri-lanka .

pls its not just the igbos but africans in general than originated from egypt

I don't know why u guys are absessed with where Igbos or no Igbos r from, does it really matter these days?. You are naija as far as everyone is concerned, when we go out and you flash that green pali it doesn't matter from that moment on. Why not make the best of where you are now. Igbos, youruba, Hausa, or Urhobo naija we all be it is that plain n simple.  Git it?!.

abi rist84sale, afterall the world is going green and the greens are trying to go ?. But intresting observation by the poster even though I really don't give a f*** about today's egypt. Another thing is the word oyibo, people really don't know how that word evolved and is really a naija word for u know, To me dat word sounds like oyi ibo ( friends of ibos/igbos).

Given the amount of words and sounds that exist in language, I'm sure for any number of languages original to the same continent, we can find random words that have similar sounds and meanings.

You want to demonstrate a real connection, we need to go beyond a random assortment of similar words, there needs to be a whole category of words that are similar, verbs and conjugations, sentence structure, culture, etc.

You guys should stop been blind, have you ever considered the possibility of other cultures such as the ancient Egyptian having their linguistic and cultural roots in pre-historic sub Saharan Africa.
Will any jew even think dear say he might have originated from sub saharan Africa or will any Egyptian say same, please wake up and be proud of your roots and build it up.

what is this now?
Next thread will be hausas originated from israel and oduduwa originates from King solomon

Enough of this madness people!!!!!!

So Igbos are among the lost tribes of Israel.

ENOUGH ALREADY.

For God sake. ENOUGH.

IGBOS ARE IGBOS.
Our origin is Africa
Sub-sahara AFRICA.

sorry, but i a m not an egytptian.

So being Igbo (and proud of it) as well as believing that Igbos have a possible link to Jews/Egypt are mutually exclusive? Pfft. Yeah, right.

I'm not really into the whole Jew Igbo thing (mainly because I am not thoroughly educated in the subject) but I gag every time I see someone write that Igbos are not possible descendants of Jews/Egyptians simply because they are Igbo/Nigerian. Circular reasoning = no reasoning. Or that people who believe in the notion that Igbos share common traits with Jews/Egypt are not proud of their Nigerian culture. You can be both proud of Nigerian culture and believe in that stuff at the same time. Sheesh. Naija people are like one-way trains going two-hundred miles per hour. "Chuguh - Chuguh - Chuguh - Chuguh - Choo! Choo!"

Lol.

@Topic

So does this mean that if i go to Israel and speak Igbo, i will be understood?I'm partly Igbo myself and can speak fluently.Does this mean that if i go into a Hebrew church and speak in Igbo, i will be accepted into their fold?If you guys watch any Cable channel where Hebrew Jews are shown, their language sounds Aramaic (similar to Arabic).So where is the connection?Tomorrow the Hausa will say that they descended from Mohammed forgetting that Islam only got introduced to them through outright slavery and oppression via Jihad.

Rubbish! ! !

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EBELEBE IGBA!

Interesting are we saying that Igbo dont know their origins that they keep claiming Isreal and now Eqypt what a pity