Oring language

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Orring
Native to Nigeria
RegionSouth South, North Central and South East
Native speakers
700,000 (2019) [1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 org
Glottolog orin1239

Orring People whose language is Korring, is a Benue and Upper Cross River language spoken in Nigeria. [2] Dialects are classified under a particular community; Eteji (Ntezi) speaks K'eteji, Lame (Okpoto) speaks Ki'lame, Idzem (Amuda) speak K'idzem, Okpolo (Opkomoro) speaks K'okpolo, Uffium( Effium) speaks K'uffium which are linguistical dialects of Orring people in Ebonyi State, Nigeria and Ufia (Utonkon) in Benue State Nigeria speaks K'ufia and Ukele - in Cross River State of Nigeria speaks K'ukele. The presence of the prefix "k" is commonly attached to categorize each dialects of Orring language. [3]

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Orring/Orri People of South East Nigeria

Orring People who speak k'orring are found in Cross River state, Ukelle, Ufia in Benue state, Ntezi, Okpoto, Amuda, Okpolo and Effiom in Ebonyi State. Originally some speculations held that Orring belong to the kwararafa kingdom before Nigeria amalgamation, however Orring have been existing in Ebonyi State prior to the coming of the later tribes. They majorly inhabit Yala and Abi Local Government Area of Cross River and Benue state boarder respectively. While some existed in Abakaliki in South Eastern Nigeria state of Ebonyi State since antecedent which the group believed to be their ancestral homeland, though there was further migration of the Orring group in Kwararafa kingdom in the 19th century during Idoma/K'orring Islamic failed raid which some scholars like argued that it was more economical than political. However, Abakaliki region have chiefly been accepted by all Orring to be an ancient settlement of the Orring People prior to the coming of the later Igboid sub-tribes of Ezza, Izzi, Ikwo and Ngbo whose progenitor migrated from the southern Igbo and Ibibio kingdoms of Aro, Afikpo, Edda, Nkwa, Abak and Ohafia. This contention has further been backup from oral history and further historical documents of Abakaliki People by Abakaliki scholars.

Abakaliki Territory

Owing to their antecedent in present day Ebonyi State, Abakaliki scholars like C.C Ugoh in his book "gods of Abakaliki" [4] accounted that the Orring people have been settling in the Abakaliki territory prior to the coming of the four major Igbo groups of Ezza, Izzi, Ikwo and Ngbo. Further writers have included the Orring a as the aboriginals of Abakaliki region prior to the coming of the Igbo groups. This therefore makes understanding in the sense that the Orring are more or less Igbos and have over the years, intermarried with their Igbo counterpart which thus create a beautiful culture different from the aboriginal Orring civilization. The Orring settled in a place called Ntezi-Aba presently in Abakaliki before expansion or migration to other settlements within Ebonyi State. The term Abakaliki according to linguistical contention is a Mbembe term which was very ancient before the coming of the progeny of the later Abakaliki People.

Present Day Settlements

Due to years of intertribal wars, Orring people which according to archival findings accounted that they were settling together as in a common community, sharing boundary with their kins the Ukele People of Cross River before being dislodged and separated by these realities. The present settlements of Orring People of Ebonyi State are: Ntezi and Okpoto as found in Ishielu LGA, Effium in Ohaukwu, and Amuda and Okpomoro in the southern part of Ohaukwu, sharing boundaries with the Nkomoro people in the south, Ezzamgbo in the North and Ntezi people in the West.

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Ntezi

Ntezi is located in the eastern outskirt of Ishielu LGA of Ebonyi State in Nigeria. Ntezi is pronounced E-teh-ji(Eteji) by the natives, and belongs to the Orring, Oring or Orri People. The dialect of Ntezi is K'eteji with the attached 'k' prefix given the name Keteji, a sub-language of korring spoken by Orring people in their diverse dialects across their settlements in Nigeria and Cameron.

References

  1. ↑ Orring at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Olson, James Stuart (1996). The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN   0-313-27918-7.
  3. ↑ Ogbuinya, NkiruEdithObande; Agha, EMaximin; Ed, AlekeChristianOkechukwuM (2018-05-31). "IN—SCHOOL FEMALE ADOLESCENTS' ATTITUDE TOWARDS SEXUALITY EDUCATION IN EBONYI STATE, NIGERIA". International Journal of Advanced Research. 6 (5): 266–276. doi:10.21474/ijar01/7029. ISSN   2320-5407.
  4. ↑ "Gods' return", Heidegger, Routledge, pp. 371–380, 2012-02-27, ISBN   978-0-203-12710-0 , retrieved 2021-05-11

3. ^ Ajifo, Hillary Nnamdi (2017). Intergroup relations of Korring speaking people and their neighbours. Project documents, department of History and International Relations, Ebonyi State University. 4. ^ Aleke, Patrick Awo (2012). Idzem (Amuda) People: Predicament and Cultural Ties.

5. U.U. Ugoh (2012). gods of Abakaliki.

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