there is less justification in dis thread.....wat about ekiti state among d yoruba speaking state?......at least we have our own dialect too..#proudlyekiti.

Thanks Mods. Its my Best Val from you guys

KOBOJO:




Were you expecting 100 million for yoruba speakers ??

Better wake up from ur dream and face reality.,
the fact still remains that yoruba is still the least of the major 3 ethnic groups in Nigeria.

In Nigeria I put Yoruba people anywhere between 18 million and 25 million, so the 19 mil figure is probably accurate. I think Yorubas only have two countries that they are based in natively, Nigeria and Rep of Benin.

McLuhan:
Is this some kind of ethnic posturing or what? Who conducted this research? I hate it when people try to score cheap political points by bandying statistics and supremacist rhetoric. If Hausa is the most widely spoken native language in Nigeria, what am I expected to do? Abandon my mother tongue and learn Hausa? Or can we compare Hausa and Yoruba to English in terms of linguistic development, universal acceptability, versatility and sheer utility? Those who blow the trumpet of these so-called majority langauages should know that in the global setting these Nigerian languages are practically inconsequential. Whether Fulfulde or Annang or Igbo or whatever, they are all peripheral to English, French, Spanish, etc.

Bro, calm down. I see no political inclination in this post. I think it's informative, simple. That is if the OP is correct as some other peeps here have disputed the accuracy of the stats the OP provided. Other than that, I see nothing wrong in this post. Just calm down and learn.

Quite interesting

KOBOJO:




Were you expecting 100 million for yoruba speakers ??

Better wake up from ur dream and face reality.,
the fact still remains that yoruba is still the least of the major 3 ethnic groups in Nigeria.

hahaha,and u must be a fo.ol to believe dat.go and see many yoruba polygamous families compared to ibo where it is mostly one man and one wife(common sense should tell u dat)yoruba population is almost 40 million in nigeria,so its definately more than 19 million speakers,also with non yorubas in lagos,there are way more non yorubas who speak yoruba compared to ibo lang.ibos are actually d leastnot yorubas

McLuhan:
Is this some kind of ethnic posturing or what? Who conducted this research? I hate it when people try to score cheap political points by bandying statistics and supremacist rhetoric. If Hausa is the most widely spoken native language in Nigeria, what am I expected to do? Abandon my mother tongue and learn Hausa? Or can we compare Hausa and Yoruba to English in terms of linguistic development, universal acceptability, versatility and sheer utility? Those who blow the trumpet of these so-called majority langauages should know that in the global setting these Nigerian languages are practically inconsequential. Whether Fulfulde or Annang or Igbo or whatever, they are all peripheral to English, French, Spanish, etc.

Stop speaking sellout jargon, the reason why Hausa for example is hosted on BBC is because they actually cherish and respect their language, unlike you. It's important for people to know their native languages, otherwise how can they call themselves Africans. No outsider (be it white or Asian) has respect for an African who can't even speak their native language. There is a reason foreigners go to countries like Mali or Senegal for their "African experience" because foreigners don't want to experience wannabe Westernised bullcrap.

If you have that slave sellout mentality, kindly keep it to yourself.

Amagmilton:
...I think Hausa is d most spoken language in Nigeria,followed by Igbo b4 Yoruba..Igbos travel a lot, they are in every nuke nd crannies of Nigeria nd d World at large..any city u go in nigeria outside igbo land, igbo is d second most spoken language after d indegineous language..Abuja (hausa/gwarri,Igbo, others), kaduna (hausa, igbo, others) Lagos (yoruba, igbo, others), benin city (edo,igbo, others), ibadan (yoruba,igbo others), calabar (efik, igbo, others) Onitsha (igbo,hausa,efik others) Enugu ( igbo,efik, hausa others) london "among nigerians" (yoruba, igbo, others),USA (igbo,yoruba, others), China (Igbo, Hausa, others) Japan (igbo,Yoruba, others),Italy (Edo, Igbo ,others)..e.t.c.

when i see people like u give false statistics based on sentiment,i pity nigeria....the fact on ground and the reality of the nation proofs the OP list false and highly incorrect.

Amagmilton:
...I think Hausa is d most spoken language in Nigeria,followed by Igbo b4 Yoruba..Igbos travel a lot, they are in every nuke nd crannies of Nigeria nd d World at large..any city u go in nigeria outside igbo land, igbo is d second most spoken language after d indegineous language..Abuja (hausa/gwarri,Igbo, others), kaduna (hausa, igbo, others) Lagos (yoruba, igbo, others), benin city (edo,igbo, others), ibadan (yoruba,igbo others), calabar (efik, igbo, others) Onitsha (igbo,hausa,efik others) Enugu ( igbo,efik, hausa others) london "among nigerians" (yoruba, igbo, others),USA (igbo,yoruba, others), China (Igbo, Hausa, others) Japan (igbo,Yoruba, others),Italy (Edo, Igbo ,others)..e.t.c.

hahaha,u ibos are jokers,dat will onlu happen when pigs fly.dude,u are living in an utopian world with thrash u just wrote

Fulaman198:


In Nigeria I put Yoruba people anywhere between 18 million and 25 million, so the 19 mil figure is probably accurate. I think Yorubas only have two countries that they are based in natively, Nigeria and Rep of Benin.

u give them?when did u conduct ur census for u to give that stats

KOBOJO:




Were you expecting 100 million for yoruba speakers ??

Better wake up from ur dream and face reality.,
the fact still remains that yoruba is still the least of the major 3 ethnic groups in Nigeria.

LOOK FOR THE CENSUS RESULT OF 1963 BEFORE SPEWING NONSENSE! HAUSA AND YORUBA POPULATIONS ARE NECK TO NECK!

ChristyG:
u give them?when did u conduct ur census for u to give that stats

I think the 3 majority groups of Nigeria over-exaggerate their populations (well maybe Hausa do not since they typically have lots of children, no offence my Hausa neighbours). However, Yoruba and igbo people don't typically have many children, so where is this huge population increase coming from?

This list is incomplete without ''IGALA'' . Spoken in Kogi state.
Op, do the needful pls.

The most spoken language in nigeria is hausa very soon it will be official language just like english in nigeriam.proud to be hausa

Fulaman198:


I think the 3 majority groups of Nigeria over-exaggerate their populations (well maybe Hausa do not since they typically have lots of children, no offence my Hausa neighbours). However, Yoruba and igbo people don't typically have many children, so where is this huge population increase coming from?

hausa are d only ones?have u ever lived in yorubaland?dat is how u guys do wuruwuru during election by inflating ur numbers.abegi

Hausa is easily number 1.

Igbo cannot be ahead of Yoruba. Apart from the fact that Yoruba has more population, it is easier to find non-Yorubas (including Igbos) who speak Yoruba, than to find non-Igbos who speak Igbo.

Fulfude should not be in top 10. Many Fulanis can't speak Fulfude, they speak Hausa.

How about chinese being spoke by calabar people and french being spoke by tiv people?

Pigin should be the number one and is suppose to be the fouth on the list

Sorry poor article from u. Do ur research very well. U will come with the following result as 1: pidgin 2: hausa 3: yoruba 4: Igbo 5: urhobo . Got my result by considering the region pple like migrating to, which of course they Will join them to speak their language.

Dis Op don high on 33

Davotee:
True

How u take no ehn ? U must be a lazy ass student in school or when in sch.... So u just agree like that without ur own research or knowledge finding...na wa o ...check when d op talked about yoruba...he didn't include ekiti as one of the yoruba speaking state yet u said true ...na wa o

garokabir:
The most spoken language in nigeria is hausa very soon it will be official language just like english in nigeriam.proud to be hausa

yur MUMU no get part 2

More than 90% of Lagos residents can speak yoruba...that alone should tell us the figure stated is nothing but false imagination. Kogi,kwara,osun,oyo,ogun, ondo, ekiti.....infact the OP failed woefully cos apart frm having fewer igbo states with lesser population, our igbo brodas n sisters flow beta in pidgin dat thier language.... Pidgin should come 3rd after Hausa and Yoruba.

ChristyG:
hausa are d only ones?have u ever lived in yorubaland?dat is how u guys do wuruwuru during election by inflating ur numbers.abegi

I'm not Hausa...

Jarus:
Hausa is easily number 1.

Igbo cannot be ahead of Yoruba. Apart from the fact that Yoruba has more population, it is easier to find non-Yorubas (including Igbos) who speak Yoruba, than to find non-Igbos who speak Igbos.

Fulfude should not be in top 10. Many Fulanis can't speak Fulfude, they speak Hausa.

That's a lie

For one You are referring to "Fulanis" in the North Western part of Nigeria not the North Eastern part. Two very different regions. The same Fulani dialect spoken in North Eastern Nigeria is also spoken in Eastern Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic and Sudan.

nagoma:


You may be right about the number but definitely both of you are wrong about the states Fulaman.

your so wrong about this

he might be wrong about the number but he's right about the states
adamawa have the highest number of Fulani's

taraba
gombe
Maiduguri

Abbey2sam:


your so wrong about this

he might be wrong about the number but he's right about the states
adamawa have the highest number of Fulani's

taraba
gombe
Maiduguri

Yah he is, however I never mentioned a number, I just said we are more than 1.9 million. I would say the number of actual Fulani speakers in Nigeria is between 11 and 14 million with the other 10-11 million other Fulani speakers being in other different African countries speaking a slightly different variation of the Fulani language (Pulaar/a different dialect of Fulfulfde) We all understand each other though, like OmarBah who is a Fulani from Guinea, I can understand him when he types to me in his Fulani dialect..

Whatt's all this thrash written up here , forget abt all those how many population re speaking the language u can't possibly put an igbo language ontop of the most widely knwn nd spoken languagein africa yor...even till south american's country such as brazil nd cuba it's widely knwn there..take a look for example at the way our language are being generally commercialised nd indicating the extinction in other language.I won't restart this point but so to say my fact's is yoruba is the most widely spoken nd used in nigeria as far as am concerend simply because it's the general language in lagos the most commercialised city in west africa.even the igbo's must succumb to it's usage for their daily survival there.

Fulaman198:
Fulfulde has more than 1.9 million speakers in Nigeria. Also the information is wrong. Most Fulani speakers are found in Adamawa, Taraba and Gombe states.

I agree.