ANAGO LANGUAGE: A YORUBA - LIKE DIALET FROM BENIN REPUBLIC |
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2023
- Join us as we embark on a linguistic journey to uncover the fascinating Anago Language, a Yoruba Language like dialect spoken in the vibrant cultural landscape of Benin Republic. Discover its similarities, differences, and cultural significance.
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Yorùbá is a large dialect continuum. That is, Yorùbá language has many regional variants throughout Yorùbáland. Ànàgó is one of the regional variants (dialect) of Yorùbá language spoken in western Yorùbáland in towns like Kétu, Ìmẹ̀kọ, Ìlíkímu, Ìlaràá, etc.
Simple.
You are right but my point here is that the real Yoruba language is losing its value. I’m a Yoruba person and I’m currently in Ibadan.
@@abinibihub Àṣà, Ise àti èdè awa Omoluabi ni ile K’aro Ojire ko ni parun o. Ase Edumare
@BalogunTafatafa ase
We also have the Anagos in Nigeria, my mom is anago from Nigeria. they were devided in 1883 according to a book written by Prof. Ashiwaju.
This is right
I’m Togo we have 2 main Yoruba languages (Anago and Ife) but they both have other dialects.
Thanks for this information. What is the difference between Anago and Ife
I don’t think there’s a big difference. I don’t speak Anago but can understand a little because I understand a little of standard Yoruba. But in Ife for example “Iba” is what they call “Oba”. So it’s just like small small differences. You can search for UA-cam videos of “Ife togo language” and maybe listen to Zeynab abib from Bénin republic who sings in Anago (Nagot) to see the difference between the two. Either way, both languages are pretty much Yoruba.
@NaturallyTek thanks and I’m planning to visit Togo sooon.
Great! Go to Atakpame (which is where Ifè is spoken) and if you go to lome, you will find Yorubas at the market (Grand marche de lome) or Anago come.
The Ife spoken in Togo is the same as ife spoken in Ile-ife in southwestern Nigeria. Ife people migrated there way before colonialism. Anago is more similar to the Yoruba spoken in ancient Oyo empire and the Yoruba most of us are used to 😊
very beautiful video proudly yoruba and sharing your video in some yoruba facebook groups am a member of
Thank you sir.
This guy David only understands a little bit of Anago. And his Anago is from the center and northern part of Benin. if you are willing to listen to pure Anago, check Isakete, pobe, Ipinle, Ketu, Ifangni, and Igolo. and many more. And each place has its tonality of Anago. Don't stay in Cotonou City! besides when you get to Ajase or Porto-Novo they speak Yoruba their own is not Anago but Yoruba, very close to the Yoruba of Oyo. Another tribe of Yoruba in the Benin Republic, Ohori, Shabe, Idasa, and so on, not only Anago! Thanks
Thank you.
Am from Ajase ( Porto Novo)we speak Yoruba everywere not anago our Yoruba is very close to OYO Yoruba you Can go there and interview people .
Anago is another dialect I Can understand but I Can speak
I speak the normal Yoruba
In benin repuplic we have like 7 dialect of Yoruba
This video was done in Benin Republic. And please tell me the names of the 7 dialect for educational reasons.
@@abinibihub anago of sakete,ketou ,isabe,itako,itabodo,and( Ajase , adjara ,acthoupa,ifangni)Yoruba,and ilukimou dialect that's the one I know
@@user-st4vo5sb5uducoup les anago nous somme originaire d’où j’arrive pas à savoir moi je suis Nago de Sakété né en France dcp je comprend pas la langue dcp j’essaye de me renseigner sur mon ethnie j’aimerai savoir si on est yoruba ou pas car notre langue sonne yoruba mélangé avec une autre langue
@@EnzoAbiola vous êtes Yoruba aussi bro
@@user-st4vo5sb5u ok merci de l’info
Anago or Nago or Yoruba are new words to describe people of Oduduwa descendants. The people never had universal names they called themselves. Just like the Chinese or the British or Ethiopians never call themselves those names. Those names are names given to them by outsiders, which they came to adopt. If not for divide and conquered tactics of the Europeans, that part of Benin Republic and some part of Togo are Yoruba land. Not only Yoruba land was divided by the Europeans during Berlin conference in the 1800s,also the Ashanti kingdom was divided too. Likewise many large kingdoms and empires in Africa. Regarding the way Yoruba in Nigeria pronounces certain words or things,we'll, it depends on where you are in Yoruba land in Nigeria. Yorubas in the hinterland still maintains those pronunciation,except those in Lagos. Lagos is very cosmopolitan ,so therefore, pronunciation of certain words is intermixed with either English language or subtled into slang.
Thanks for enlightening us. Their pronunciation is a little bit different and it sound original to me. Dialect is different from what I explained in the video but never the less. I’m still coming with a full content. Where I interviewed some yorubas.
Anago isn't a new word but yoruba is. How is that even possible when there was an Anago kingdom?
@jaholo1805 Which Kingdom is Anago Kingdom? Are those people in that kingdom named themselves Anago? or what outside called them.
@jaholo1805 true
@genuinediasporan6661 yes. Anago kingdoms still exist.
Due...People still use the word 'Petesi'. Anago is simply a dialect. From my reckoning. Yes I see what your point is, but I am from Ondo...and when my parents speak Ondo...there is very rare English reeping into the language. But when they shift into standard Yoruba, thats when the English creeps in. And that is primarily because they learnt standard Yoruba as a 'second language'...in a city they are not native to.
Ok and thank you sir.
Ànàgó is a dialect of Yorùbá language
Ekiti is also one of the more extant originals that most likely predates Oduduwa and is still widely spoken by a large swath of Ekitiland.
there are other versions of yoruba language in brazil mixed with portuguese, cuba, colombia, venezuela, Dominican republic also speaks yoruba with mixtures of spanish language, mende people of sierra leone and creole of freetown also has yoruba in their dialect
True but they all have different names they called their Yoruba.
In the Caribbean we use “lukumi or olukumi” or anago for religious purpose only.
@@Bembesito wow interesting, thank you for the exposition
@Bembesito are you from Brazil
The people are Anago, and their language is Yuroba. For example, Anlos are a set of people who are from the Ewe tribe that speak Ewe language.... Agave and Vedome are also Ewes who speak Agave and Vedome type of Ewe language. Just like Aja ,Fon is also Ewes.
Anago is a Yoruba dialect.
Petesi is upstairs in Ijebu, confirming that anago should be the Yoruba of other tribes apart from Yoruba Ajumalo that is peculiar to Oyo
Ok. Thanks for this
Petesi is upstair in general Yoruba and most dialects if not all, not just Ijebu.
I can’t remember the last time I heard “ago lona” in Lagos.😊
Ago lona is now a deep Yoruba word.
Yoruba is the language, Anago is one of the dialects just as you have Oyo, Ijebu and Ekiti dialects
True
Osun and Ibadan people still say Petesi
Yes they do. I even heard the word a lot as a child right in in Lagos where I grew up when describing a building 😊
Kíni ìsòro tí Yorùbá ní gan-an? O fé so òrò lóríi èdè Yorùbá, kí wá ni ìdí pàtàkì tí o fi bèrè pèlú èdè Òyìnbó? Òyìnbó kò ní so èdèe Yorùbá nínú ètò tiwon láéláé! Sé erú Òyìnbó ni Yorùbá ni?😳
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Great show! Correction, with all due respect. Africa is the cradle of human civilization. Western "Civilization" needs to be mentioned specifically in that context. And there couldn't have been a "Western civilization" without Africa and Africans.
My apologies if I offended in anyway shape or form.
I love been corrected and thanks for your contributions.
If you go to Cuba or Brazil, historians will tell how what we call "Yoruba" today were known as Anago, or by regional names like Ijexa (Ijesa), Ijebu etc or Lucumi, If you read the "escaped slave" archives in Jamaica there are numerous references to Anago or Naggo runaway slaves. Nago Head in Portmore, St Katherine Jamaica is named after Anago people. The term "Yoruba" was fairly recently adopted as a term to describe the people in present day SW Nigeria, Southern Togo and Benin Republic. It was an exonym probably of northern origin that was promoted by the returnee "press print" owning Yoruba Saros that formed the first middle class and political agitators of the protectorate that became Nigeria.
True. But how did we get the name Yoruba.
@@abinibihub ua-cam.com/video/89rO6tqrKK8/v-deo.html
My understanding is Anago may have been a label invented by other kingdoms especially the Fon people sharing borders with western part of Old Oyo empire (Present day Benin rep and some parts of Togo) to describe the Yoruba speaking people. It was generally adopted by white slave traders to identify and classify people brought from the Oyo empire. Anago remained an identity to these slaves in the new world and passed on till date. The period after the fall of the Oyo empire and before colonization saw the rise of Dahomey kingdom (Fon people) . The Dahomey kingdom invaded former Old Oyo empire towns north of its territory and the name Anago stuck with the people. With the emergence of two colonial powers taking possession of all territories, the French conquering Abomey further distinguished the Anago people from its now Anglophone kinsmen (Yoruba people in present day Nigeria). By the late 1800, after the end of the Yoruba inter tribal wars and introduction of Christian missionary activities, Yoruba became popularly adopted as a common identity to Yoruba-speaking people of present day Nigeria and equally adopted into modern day literature.
You are right but my question is why are we letting go of our unique language. The anago/Yoruba here stays unique and sounds like an African language and not the other way round. 2 question is what is our original name? obviously it’s not Yoruba.
@@abinibihub 1). Christianity and western civilization spread rapidly in Anglophone Yoruba land This caused irreversible damage to our culture. The effect of western civilization in Anglophone Yoruba towns was way more pronounce that our francophone neighbors. Hence the Anagos were able to have their identity more intact. 2). Yoruba has different dialects typical to major towns which are unique to one another and they remain unchanged even in Nigeria. The most common Yoruba dialect is what's spoken in Lagos which is Awori and has largely been corrupted with English. If you go to Yoruba towns upcountry, their dialect remains undiluted. Anago is closely related to Yoruba spoken in core Oyo towns, Oke Ogun, Ibarapa, etc and completely different from other towns like Ibadan or Ondo. I did my nysc in Oyo town, their Yoruba is very vocal, has deep intonations and not mixed with English. Even people living in major cities in Benin Rep also speak Anago with some corruption with Fon and French accents. Would suggest you travel upcountry to Ketou then cross the border to Saki, Ibarapa and you will see similarities. 3). That original name may be lost to history, some writers say its Lucumi but no general consensus.
@agboolafaleti4520 I’m still in Cotonou and yes. Their language is totally different from us and this is making me feel that they are speaking the original language. I will still upload more videos about them.
@@abinibihub Thanks for the Great work. Will look forward to more videos.
Hmm not sure about that part. That's a misperception because the fact that many slaves came from the old anago area/ kingdom, people often associate this term as being given to them by europeans to mean "slave". It was so many Anago being taken as slaves to the new world, so that association just stuck. europeans called then "nago" without the letter "A" because they couldn't pernounce it.
Here in the West..some were called Nago or Lukumi..O'Lukumi/lucumi👑👑
Nago is what the Brazilian called their yoruba and Lucumi is what the cubism’s call their yoruba.
@@abinibihub yes..also not forget Haiti, in their practice of Voudu..they give reverence to different african tribes brought to Haiti.. Kongo, Fon, and Yoruba(Nago courts) which they came north to New Orleans after the revolution in Haiti
@@OloRishaCreole504 Wow. Any references to this practice? I would love to read more about it.
Both (all) the practices are from Ifa. If you want to understand it more read about ifa.
@@abinibihub exactly..Ifa..Afa and Fa
# 5 Study Ifá
U should go to Cuba 🇨🇺
I’m still saving some money and you can support also sha
the truth is that originally there was no Yoruba. there were OYO, EKITI, EGBA, SHABE, KETU, ANAGO, IDJEBU, IDJESHA, .... the word "YORUBA is foreign to our community. the word "Yoruba" is of Hausa origin.
It was used by the Hausa emperor, Hamed Baba to designate the diplomats of the Oyo kingdom.
the word Yoruba will later be retained by the colonizer who wanted an expression to designate this community.
In Benin there is no Yoruba there are only anago although certain dialects like that of ADJASHE are a little close to that of OYO. Moreover, in the colonial archives of Benin ADJASHE is Anago.
Yoruba became official with the penetration of the settler only in the 19th century, so the people of our community were already on the territory of what is called adjashe since the 19th century.
on a map dating from the beginning of the 19th century that I would have liked to post here if it were possible, there is nowhere Yoruba in what will later be called Yorubaland.
This information is open on Weekypedia
Thanks for the information and I’m open for this conversation. You can send it to me on Ig if possible. Same name.
Please can u tell more about the tribe called Alijo or Alidjo in Benin ? They speak something similar as Yoruba .
I don’t know anything about them but I’m going there next month by Gods grace but I’m sure someone will be here to tell you about them.
Alijo sounds like a Yoruba word, Alejo, which means Visitor(s) in English
@seismicvertigo345 yes Alejo means visitor. I want to dove really deep into the anago culture starting from next month.
@@abinibihub I just dug into it a bit further. I think they live in the Bassila Subprefecture of the Donga Department in Benin Rep
@seismicvertigo345 Southwest Nigeria, known as Yoruba, is the cultural and historical base before the community spread globally.
# 5 Ifá
Beni
Please, is 'goun' or 'Egun' really a yoruba dialect?
Yes. Egunjobi is not far from anago.
Yes!
They are A Dialect of Yoruba from old Oyo.
We call Yoruba anago also. I mean in nigeria
Where in Nigeria?
You as an interviewer a bit uneducated by not able to that "Anago" is a dialect just as Egba, Ekiti, Ijebu and Oyo are. These are all what made up "Yoruba" language or languages
That’s what you know.
How come the British colonial masters developed YORUBA for those in Nigeria instead of calling it the ancient name ANAGO?
Even Yoruba people don’t accept the name Yoruba at first.
The wind is too loud
I have a better mic now.
WHY not simply re-record the audio???
I’m putting together a better video for this topic.
I’m putting together a better video for this topic.
If you think Yuroba language has more tonal languages wait until you get into Ghana and Togo, the Ewe people are more tonal languages than any groups of people in the world.
The fact is there and I think what we discussed here is not about competing with other tribes in Africa but a fight with it self. Anyways thanks for watching.
@@abinibihubThe Yoruba language was invented by Samuel Crowther and loosely based on the OYO language. The original people of OYO were the Ewe people thus, Yoruba language is based on a GBE dialect spoken today in Ghana, Togo and Benin. Aside from that, ANAGO originally wasn’t defined as a language. ANAGO are PURE OYO people that fled west into Dahomey territory. They are from the OLD OYO and the modern NEW OYO took their name assuming their identity.
Colonization has destroyed so many things.
You call them Anago in Benin Republic, but you call them Yoruba in Nigeria.
Yoruba is a recent word coined by the colonial masters within Nigeria for Oduduwa People because there was no general name until the coming of the colonial masters
Yes. You are right. They have done us wrong.
The name Yoruba, was not coined by colonial masters, it was by a Yoruba slave returner called Samuel Ajayi Crowder. He did that to bring all Of us together instead of Egba, Ekiti, Ife, Oyo, Ijesha, Ijebu, Ketu, Igbomina, Ondo, Anago, Awori etc. Even the Aku of Sierra Leone and Gambia speaks Yoruba
I'm happy to see that many of us still has interest in our culture and language. I'm from Benin Republic and Yoruba/Anago, u can choose either. So, just to clarify few points: people who speak what we call ''standard Yoruba'' in Benin are not called ''Anago'' nor do they call themselves so. And those people speak the ''Same'' Yoruba spoken in some cities/town in Nigeria depending on the proximity with those places... Now, we have those we call ''Anago'' who are referred to as a variant of ''standard Yoruba'' and this ''Anago'' is divided in many other variants depending on the town u are in. And both ''Anago'' and ''Yoruba'' people in Benin republic when they listen to themselves they are able to make the distinction. For instance, my mother is from a ''Anago'' community and my Father from ''standard Yoruba''... From my understanding and own research, all these are variants of the ''Yoruba language" which is not even the real name but till we discover the real one or rebaptized it, let's consider that all are ''Yoruba'' variants. My last point is that, as I speak ''fon'' main language spoken in Benin Republic, I'm sometimes amazed and surprised by many words in ''Yoruba'' and ''Fon'' which have the same pronunciation and meaning... it's very funny and interesting to see how our communities were bonded despite their rivalries back when. The same thing applies to ''Ewe"" which is spoken in Togo and Ghana we have some variants in Benin with the same roots but some differences. Peace be with u my friends. We will regain our wealth.
@steevikravmaga3139 This is eye opening. I was in Benin last year and I love the country and I will visit again next month.
The people are Yoruba the language is Anago
We know that and moving forward to discovering our selfs
The wind noise is crazy.. crazier than your H factor 🫣
Thanks for reminding me. It’s called sense of belongings. I’m from Ibadan just in case you don’t know. I’m sorry about the wind noise and I just saved some case for external mic lav ni.
Owo in twi in Ghana means snake.
Wow. You see
Owo means Ewe means “You” like “Iwo” in Yoruba.
Real yoroba ife foundation , the tim between Africa they're Self before with men can they are missing whit Bénin and Nigeria and sompart for Togo
Yes.
Just say they speak a Yoruba dialect. And you are not conversant with Naija very well, many people still us petesi while the younger ones will use upstairs or tha storey building. Basically subing with English, but saying they don't say petesi in Yoruba is fallacious. Anago is a dialect like Ijebu, Egba, Ekiti, Ilaje etc. So things should be put in better perspective. And using english or french word in btw is an individual thing. Because I have met a Benin girl here that would inject french or english but we communicated in "Yoruba". And it's not different from Naija where pople speak English to their kids instead of their dialects.
Ok
Yoruba is a continuum. Anago is just one of many. We have Ijebu, Egba, Ekiti, Ondo, Ife, and other Yoruba forms. The Yoruba you are speaking is Central/Standard Lagos/Ibadan Yoruba. I dont subscribe to blaming anyone. Ask yourself if you speak Yoruba to your own kids. Are you intentional about marrying a Yoruba woman? Many of you r marrying Igbo women and speaking English to your kids and somehow you wanna blame others
I speak Yoruba to my kids. This is more like a wake up call not a blame game. Anyways thanks for your contribution.
You told no lies. The rate of inter-ethnic marriages amongst Yoruba men is alarming. At worst, they are breeding and raising anti-Yoruba offspring, especially those birthed by Igbo women.
CIVILIZATION??? do you mean that you all were not civilized before European contacts? Why is it so hard for you to recognize that one civilization existed, and then another civilization came and dominated it, and convinced our ancestors, and they came from savages! I see that same lesson still persists. In other words, you have to learn to respect yourself before others will😜🫣… and finally, the ominous music you’re playing in the background is unnecessarily dramatic! I’m just trying to hunt for two or three sentences in this whole video that actually says something! Thank you for your efforts
Thanks for watching and your contribution. I used the camera inbuilt microphone in the video and we have a better microphone now.
This guy doesn't speak anago well , he sounds like fon/egun guy.
Anago ni.
I would prefer you say "Westernization" instead of "Civilization" whenever you are talking about the broad influence of the Western world on Africa.
Clearly, Anago is a dialect of the broad Yoruba Language. Its not a language on its own.
Thanks for the correction sir and thanks for the input at the same time.
Anago is not a Yorùbá like language. It is Yorùbá language dialect the same way we have Ife, Ẹgba, Ìjèbú, etc
Thanks for this, we are still trying to figure it out.
@@abinibihub The various ethnonyms used to describe us include Yorùbá, Nago or Anago, Lucumi, Aku, Itsekiri, Ifẹ,and so on. All of them refer to the same Yoruboid people that share the same ancestry; and that's the reason the language is the same with dialectical differences here and there.
The Nago Anago are simply Yoruba....
Yes
He is decrying colonialism and he is speaking English!
Thanks for your comments sha
How.else do you want him to communicate to everyone at once? Even some yorubas might not understand the language.
Yoruba of course