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Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by macof(m): 12:32am On Nov 17, 2013 |
How Oromo and Amharic reach there? 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Fulaman198(m): 3:25am On Nov 17, 2013 |
Bazil: wrong,hausa were recognised as an ethnic group of gabon in 2005, hausas have been in gabon since the 1890s or so and are mostly found in the nort and north east of the country. the number of hausa speackers in gabon is closer to 35000 and not 100 000 like someone suggested earlier. among the politicians some are hausa and as a manner of fact miss gabon 2001 was an hausa girl called aicha sidi. i am also pretty much sure hausas can be found in cameroon as well. He means countries that Hausa are native to. Hausa are not native to Gabon. Hausas are a Sahelian people. Gabon is nowhere near the Sahel. So it would make sense that Niger, Nigeria, and possibly Chad are the only countries that Hausa people are indigenous. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Bazil(m): 10:37pm On Nov 17, 2013 |
Fulaman198: I know that, but the discussion is about people that speak a particular language ,in our case Hausa. So whether Hausa people are indigenous to Gabon or not is irrelevant, because the fact remains that the language is spoken there by thousands of Gabonese Hausa. Just like English, french,Arabic,Portuguese and Spanish arnt indigenous to Africa but are still spoken by millions of Africans. And my previous comment was not directed to him only. Nayah:[quote author=Nayah] The bolded part is wrong. Hausa arnt in gabon only as immigrants. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by anonymous6(f): 11:13pm On Nov 17, 2013 |
Interesting thread |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by OrlandoOwoh(m): 12:58pm On Nov 21, 2013 |
One_Naira:How many places have you heard Fulfude spoken? Though the Fulani defeated the Hausa states beginning from 1804, the Hausa defeated them linguistically. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Akpaife(m): 12:59pm On Nov 21, 2013 |
Yoruba came before Igbo!! Yaay!Igbo ds igbo dat u guys cnt do without igbos 4 Likes |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Nobody: 2:29pm On Nov 21, 2013 |
ifyalways: LOL @ list.Aside Swahili and Hausa,the list is funnnny.Why not check any ENCYCLOPEDIA to verify? Or is it because Hausa is mentioned? |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Nobody: 2:46pm On Nov 21, 2013 |
Ngodigha1: There are no Hausa in Gabon or any Central African country. The Hausas found outside Nigeria and Niger are immigrants to those countries.Originally they were immigrants. But they are now citizens. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Nobody: 2:56pm On Nov 21, 2013 |
ifyalways: LOL @ list.Aside Swahili and Hausa,the list is funnnny.Sorry. I read it as "list aside", "Swahili and Hausa, the list is funny" Accept my apology. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Fulaman198(m): 4:37pm On Nov 21, 2013 |
Orlando Owoh: In every west African country, fulfulde/pular is widespread with about 10 million speakers found in Northeast Nigeria. Adamawa, Gombe, Jos, etc has a lot of Fulani people. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by macof(m): 2:45pm On Nov 22, 2013 |
Fulaman198: But how often is the language spoken? I have never heard fula, all the fulani I know speak Hausa |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Kponkwem(m): 8:15pm On Nov 22, 2013 |
I think the Igbo language is highly spoken by millions in non-indegenous commercial clusters across Nigerian and Africa. But it would have fared far better if the native Igbo descendants of the returneee slaves in Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea and Gabon are to understand the language. They should number in their millions, and when added to offsprings of Biafran war evacuees in Gabon, Zambia and Cote d'Ivoire it would have been a strong African population. Also, there are massive Igbo descendants in Haiti, Brazil, Jamaica, Honduras and Southern USA. The Hausa language is the highest in West Africa. The use of the language by the BBC, VOA, Deutche welle, China radio etc attests to this. Lately many international christian channels, having realised that the Igbo has the highest christian population bloc in Africa, have been using the language in their broadcasts. We hope to see the mainstream channels do same. 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Kponkwem(m): 8:17pm On Nov 22, 2013 |
I think the Igbo language is highly spoken by millions in non-indegenous commercial clusters across Nigerian and Africa. But it would have fared far better if the native Igbo descendants of the returneee slaves in Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea and Gabon are to understand the language. They should number in their millions, and when added to offsprings of Biafran war evacuees in Gabon, Zambia and Cote d'Ivoire it would have been a strong African population. Also, there are massive Igbo descendants in Haiti, Brazil, Jamaica, Honduras and Southern USA. The Hausa language is the highest in West Africa. The use of the language by the BBC, VOA, Deutche welle, China radio etc attests to this. Lately many international christian channels, having realised that the Igbo has the highest christian population bloc in Africa, have been using the language in their broadcasts. We hope to see the mainstream channels do same. 2 Likes |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by OrlandoOwoh(m): 8:30pm On Nov 22, 2013 |
Fulaman198:The question is, how many Fulo speak Fulfulde? Most of them, especially those in Nigeria, speak Hausa. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Onlytruth(m): 1:04am On Nov 23, 2013 |
Someone here questioned the inclusion of Igbo in the top ten, I wonder why? A language spoken by at least 30 million people? The list is very good and represents the closest answer to the truth. BTW I LOVE Swahili. It gives me goose pimples each time I hear it. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Nobody: 11:53am On Nov 23, 2013 |
@original poster Swahili is not spoken in southern Somalia or Ethiopia. It is the other way around, Somali is spoken in north eastern Kenya. The southern Oromo in Ethiopia are called Borana and they speak their own Oromo dialect. macof: How Oromo and Amharic reach there? 32 million Oromos in Ethiopia alone. Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia thus making it a language spoken by 90 million people. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by olumidaie(m): 12:23pm On Nov 23, 2013 |
Fulaman198: do you mean PEOPLE? The total number of Fulani range from 22-24 million, of which 12 million( including those taged with Hausa) are in Nigeria: making them the fourth lagest ethnic group in Nigeria after WA-ZO-BIA. Most of the Fulani in Hausaland and Sokoto speak Hausa; while those in Gombe and Adamawa speak Fulani( yet, they still large speaking Hausa people there). Mind you it's not only Fula that are in Gombe and Adamawa. Gombe has 70 ethnic groups; and Adamawa has dozens of ethnic groups. So your claim on 10 million fulfude speaker is false. Both In Nigeria and the whole of W. Africa. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Fulaman198(m): 7:24pm On Nov 23, 2013 |
macof: Adamawa, Gombe, Taraba (Jalingo) all speak Fulfulde. It is very widely spoken in Northeastern Nigeria. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Fulaman198(m): 7:27pm On Nov 23, 2013 |
Orlando Owoh: There are about 20 million ethnic Fulani in Nigeria out of those 20 million 10 million speak Fulfulde. Fulfulde is spoken in every west African country. It is even spoken in Chad, Cameroon, Central African republic by my fellow Mbororo brothers. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Fulaman198(m): 7:30pm On Nov 23, 2013 |
olumidaie: Total Fulani number about 20 - 25 million with about half Fulani speakers being found in Nigeria and Cameroon. Highest concentration of Fulani people however is found in Guinea-Conakry country. In every west African country you will find people who speak the Fulani language. Even in central Africa, Chad, Cameroon and the Central African Republic has its share of Fulani speakers. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Fulaman198(m): 7:32pm On Nov 23, 2013 |
olumidaie: Sorry but you are giving false information http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fula_language |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by mensdept: 6:30pm On Nov 24, 2013 |
Its good that we know or think we know the top 10 languages spoken. Lets clap for ourselves. Now can we get the top 10 or best regions in black africa, the best governors or projects or economies or airports. What about the top ten african country names and meanings that are african and not given by the white masters if we are looking to stroke ego |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Fulaman198(m): 8:15pm On Nov 24, 2013 |
mens dept: Its good that we know or think we know the top 10 languages spoken. Lets clap for ourselves. We can make a thread on that my friend. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by ZACHIE: 8:36pm On Nov 24, 2013 |
Once again, every demographic about our Northern folks is false. The same region that lays claim to a dominant Hausa language region is equally laying claim to Fulfude as the next big thing in the same region. Unfortunately, demographics is not politics. You cannot claim Hausa and fulfulde as native first languages in the same group. So, let our northern folk tell us: are you Hausa or fulfulde speaking lot? Igbo language has got to be fastest growing language in my opinion. Yoruba is the least expanding. The native speakers have suddenly become sophisticated enough to despise their own language. Seriously, Swahili is the most widespread language in Africa followed by Hausa regardless of their Fulfulde shenanigan. 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Fulaman198(m): 2:41am On Nov 25, 2013 |
ZACHIE: Once again, every demographic about our Northern folks is false. Let us not be naive. If Nigeria a country that has a population of 165 million has a Fulani speaking population of 10 million that would mean native Fulani like me make up 6.1% of the population.... I don't see the big deal seems very realistic to me. The problem with most naive Nigerians is that they think Fulani language is only spoken in Nigeria, when it is actually spoken in every west African country, and 4 central African countries. The link I linked proves there are 25 million NATIVE Fulani speakers, where about 10-11 million of those come from Nigeria. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by StarFlux: 9:08am On Nov 25, 2013 |
I believe the amount of Fulfulde speakers is fairly accurate (13,6 million) if you look at other sources than Wikipedia. As seen here as well: http://www.ethnologue.com/language/fub I'm not sure where they get the 25 million figure from though. I don't understand what point you are trying to make ZACHIE. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Fulaman198(m): 3:53pm On Nov 25, 2013 |
StarFlux: I believe the amount of Fulfulde speakers is fairly accurate (13,6 million) if you look at other sources than Wikipedia. As seen here as well: http://www.ethnologue.com/language/fub If you combine Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger, Chad it is about that number. Remember in the far west of west Africa, the language is called Pular or Puular. ![]() |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by StarFlux: 8:32pm On Nov 25, 2013 |
Fulaman198:That makes sense. Nice one! 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by babaireti(m): 5:35pm On Nov 27, 2013 |
Baayanjida: Hausa ranked first in Africa and according to Wikipedia Hausa ranked 34th in the World ( 6000 languages) most spoken languages by Native speakers.Even in Chad,they speak Hausa 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Fulaman198(m): 5:00pm On Nov 28, 2013 |
baba ireti: Well it is a Chadic language |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Gamji007: 9:26am On Dec 07, 2013 |
Yoruba came before Igbo!! Yaay! Lol! ![]() |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In All Of Africa by Nobody: 11:40pm On Nov 10, 2014 |
Rubbish list. Where is Fulfulde-Pulaar? 1 Like |
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