Community Where Men And Women Speak Different Languages

How many languages can you boldly claim to speak and are you good at these languages?

Okay, what will you do if you find out that a particular community has inhabitants whose genders speak separate languages but still communicate perfectly even with differences in tongues. Well, that's the case in the community of Ubang.

Ubang community in Obudu Local Government Area, Cross River State is found between two mountains where the male and female inhabitants speak different languages and the most fact about this is that they understand themselves.

The inhabitants of Ubang know how others feel about their wonderful talent, they tell their story in a way that makes others green with envy.

According to locals, it is believed that God descended on one of the mountains in the villages of Okiro and stood on the rock at the peak of the mountain and distributed languages.

“He started with us (Ubang) since it is our mountain that He stood to distribute the languages and His footprint is still etched on that rock till today. It was after God had distributed the languages to the men and women of Ubang that He discovered that the languages would not go round the communities if He continued to give each for both sexes and so He decided to give the other communities one language for both sexes.”

There are no plans to merge languages by the inhabitants. Ubang comprises of three villages, Okwersing, Ofambe and Okiro, the variances in language between the male and female folks is what stands the community out they most and they are quite proud of it. They boast that God so loved them and except He comes down again to the spot in the community where He handed them the languages and directs otherwise, they had no plan to fuse the two languages.

Right from birth, each child born in the community knows he or she has to speak the language of his or her sex because any attempt to learn the language of the other will end in futility.

If a female tries to speak the language of the male or vice versa, she will not be able because she will be confused and make a lot of mistakes.

Some examples of words by male and female are, the men folk call water Amie, while the female call it Banu. The verb, ‘go,’ is Mbie by the male, while to the women, it is Uruo. Women call yam, Iri, while men call it Ketung. Women call stone Koka, while their men call it Okai, women call shirt Ariga while men call it Nki.

This is really amazing! What do you think about this?