User:Ota
Óbókhiàn. Òtà Ògiè òré ènì mwén. Òtà òré érhá mwén vbé íyé mwén hé mwén rè. Ògiè òré ènì ègbé érhámwèn. Èhàníré òré ènì ègbé òghé íyé mwén.Vbè èvbó mwén ìmà yàyí wèé òmwán ghá khín ómàí òré òmwán ná hèwé. Dè bàá òní á ghà wìnná vbè ówié á ghí dòó hèwé vbè òtà (àkòtà). Érhá mwèn tàmàá mwén íghé èmwín hiá wá dúnà nè írèn vbè èghè nè à ná bié mwén óní ó zèérè nè ìrèn ná hé mwén Òtà. Ò tàmàá mwén ìghé ègbé wá fú írèn rré.
Welcome. My name is Ota Ogie. My first name is Ota and my surname is Ogie. My father comes from the Ogieirhiaxi family while my mother comes from the Ehanire family. In my town, we believe that the name given to a child plays a part in the child’s destiny.[1]. The name Ota means 'evening'. It is believed that the best part of ones life is when one is old. Also people work during the day and rest in the evening. My father told me that the reason he named me Ota even though he was only 30 years old when I was born was that he felt at peace and was satisfied with all he had achieved as at the time I was born. My father`s famlily name ogieirhiaxi means the king never takes revenge on his subjects. He always forgives. My maternal grandfather the late Chief Ehanire(the Obaraye of Benin) told me that the name Ehanire is derived from i hanno rre meaning I select pleasure, that is, before coming into the world the child asks for all the good things of life from God.
Èdó à ná bié mwén.Àvbé èbó ní ká gbé èdó yè òtò tiè ìmà Bíní sòkpán ìvbíèdó tiè ègbé íràn Èdó. Èdó ó ré èkápítá òghé Èdó state vbè Nigeria. Èstètí Ene ei ro vbe iyi-eva òré ó rré Nigeria. Nigeria rre West Africa. Ètén ìhínrón òré í mwén. Ìmè òré òmó úkpógièné. Érhá mwén Èvbìnmá Ògiè yé rré àgbòn sòkpán íyé mwén Ruth Adidi Èhàníré Ògiè wúrù vbè 2003. Èrhá mwén òré ùsún èmwàn nè ò suénrèn Èdó language department vbè esuku nè à ghá tié department of African languages vbè University of Lagos vbè èstétì nè à tié Lagos state vbè Nigeria.
I was born in Benin City, Edo state Nigeria [2].Èdó is spoken by about a million and a half people (1991 census) in Mid-Western Nigeria. It belongs to the Edoid group (Elugbe 1979) of the Benue-Congo subfamily of the Volta-Congo family (Gordon 2005)[3].Èdó appears in the literature under three different labels. These are: Benin, Èdó and Bini. In early European literature, the language is often referred to as Bini (Greenberg 1966 and Melzian 1937), while Thomas (1910) refers to it as Èdó. These labelling differences are explained by the fact that the language is spoken in the region formally known as the Benin empire which had its capital in the city Èdó. The Edo people find the term Bini offensive and prefer both the language and the people to be called Èdó (J.U.Egharevba 1934 A short history of Benin, Westcott 1995 Bini names in Nigeria and Georgia in edo-nation.net/content).[4]. Nigeria has 36 states and lies in West Africa. I have 7 brothers and sisters. I am the 4th child. My father Evbinma Ogie is alive while my mother Ruth Adidi Ehanire Ogie died in 2003. My father was one of the founding members of Edo language study in the department of African languages. University of Lagos, Nigeria.
Èmwán nè ì rré Nigeria zè èvbó níbún. Èmwán nè ì zè èháúsà kèvbé ìyórúbá kèvbé ìgbó òré ó bún sé.Àvbé èlínguístí kà èmwán nè í zé èdó bàá èvbó ìgbé nè ó díbàá sèé vbè Nigeria. Àrriòbá Nigeria wèé nè èmó hiá wòó òkpá vbè èvbó èhá ná vbè èsúkú dèbàá èvbó íyé íràn sòkpán èvbó níbún vbè rrò nè à mà ré yé gbén yé òtó. Ò kpérè nè à ké gbèn Èdó yè òtó. Anthropologisti nè à tiè Northcote W. Thomas ò rré ùsún èmwán nè Ò ká gbén édó yè òtó vbè 1910. Àvbé èmísiònárí vbé yé èdó gbén èbìábò yè òtó.Èbó nè ó ké Eportugal rré Ruy de Sequeira vbé òdédé 1472 rré ùsún àvbé èbó nè ó ká sé Èdó. Àvbé eportuguesi òré ó suén èsósí èkátólíkì vbé òdédé 1515-1516. Èbó nè à tiè Windham nè ó ké United Kingdom rrè, rré vbé òdédé 1553 (Egharevba 1934).Òvbí èdó nè ò ká wà gbén èbé èdó òré J.U. Egharevba 1933, Erkerhe vbe Itan Edo. Èvbó òmwá nè á zé òré ó tàmàá àgbònhiá èkè nè à ké rré. Èdó wèé té á má zé èvbó òmwá té á wìírì. Èbó òré á yá má èmwán èmwín vbè èsùkú kèvbé òré ò rè èvbó nè à zé vbè ísí ìwìnnà. Rhúnmwúndá òní èmó níbún í sétín zé èvbó íràn.
Nigeria is a populous nation with over 131 million people . There are over 300 languages spoken in Nigeria and many do not have a writing system. Of these, the three largest language groups consist of the Hausa (northern Nigeria), Yoruba (western Nigeria) and Igbo (eastern Nigeria) people. These languages have the status of national languages and are the languages of integration. The national language policy states that children should be taught their mother tongue in the primary schools and one of the three national languages as compulsory languages up to junior secondary school.However, due to the fact that many of these languages have no writing systems,the former National Language Center(current Language Development Center (LDC)), suggested a review of the policy in 1976 stating that in addition to the three national languages, 9 (Edo included) other languages should be taught in the primary schools [5]. A modification that gave rise to debates about language policies, cultures and identity. Edo is classified by linguists as one of the 9 major languages in Nigeria. The first scientific study of Edo was carried out by an anthropologist Northcote W. Thomas in 1910 followed by many others. Missionaries have also documented the language through the writing of the bible in Edo. Ruy de Sequiera is one of the first Europeans from Portugal to visit Benin City around 1472. The Portuguese established the catholic mission in Benin around 1515-1516. In about 1553, Windham from the United Kingdom visited Benin city.The first school Government school was built in 1901(J.U.Egharevba 1934).The first in-depth comprehensive Edo work written by a native speaker was by J.U. Egharevba Erkerhe vbe Itan Edo ' Some Edo proverbs' (1933). Nigerians believe that language is a tool that serves to identify the individual. Thus the Edos have a saying té á má zé èvbó òmwá té á wìírì meaning the people who do not speak their language are a lost people. English is the official language and the language used in educational teaching and is therefore seen as the language of prestige. Due to this fact a trend is developing in the southern part of Nigeria were children cannot speak their mother tongue giving urgency to the need to document these languages within a system like that provided by the typecraftPage_TYPE CRAFT IN-DEPTH ANNOTATION OF MULTI-VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN ÈDÓ.
Àvbé èná hiá òré ó zé nè ì nà tié Èdó Linguistics vbè euniversiti nè à tiè University of Benin kèvbé èmasters vbè euniversiti nè à tiè University of Ilorin vbè Nigeria. Ì vbé tié èbé nè à tiè Masters in Business Administration dèbàá òré. Ì ghí tié èbé fòó nè ì nà suén íwínnà ètísà vbé òwá èbé nè ó yó nè à tiè University of Benin vbé Nigeria. Èvbá nìí òré ì ná wìnná ì ké dòó ghá rhié èvbó nè à tiè Norway nè ì dòó tie ePhDi vbè òwá èbé nè ó yó nè à tiè Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Eprofessor Lars Hellan à tiè ètísà nè ò tiè èbé nè ì gbén. Pién èmwán nè ù tiè úsún èmwín nè ì rè rrú.
These are some of the reasons I decided to study B.A. linguistics at the University of Benin Nigeria and M.A. linguistics at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. In addition, I studied for a Masters in Business administration at the University of Benin, Nigeria. I worked as a Lecturer at the University of Benin, Nigeria until I came to Norway where I am now studying for a Ph.D in Language and Linguistics at NTNU [6]. My supervisor is Professor Lars Hellan and the title of my dissertation is multi-verb constructions in Edo _multi-verb constructions in Edo.
Alfabelti nè ì yà gbén nà, vbè 1974 òré àvbé èlínguístí ná kòkó zé írò ìghé èrhió ìmà khián yàá gbén Èdó. Agheyisi 1986 vbé fí èmwín èsó wèrrié.
The alphabet I have used in writing Edo is the one recommended by the 1974 Edo language committee and modified by Agheyisi 1986a.
Ù rúèsé. Òtà rué ghá má ísè.
Thank you. May your evening be good amen.