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Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Rotimi47: 5:47am On Feb 12, 2015 |
I don't know why people always try to miss lead people! We have more Yoruba speaking people in Nigeria than Igbo speakers, also Yoruba is spoken in Cuba,Brazil, Benin republic, Ghana, Côte d etc, ishekiri & some part of Kaduna & Benue. So people should stop mid leading people at least in tearm of land mass & population we have more Yoruba's than Igbo's; let people google it & the intention of the OP will be made known. Abeg stop your trash. 3 Likes |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Fulaman198(m): 6:09am On Feb 12, 2015 |
scholes0: I think you are confusing actual Fulanis who do speak Fulfulde with people who call themselves Fulanis that only speak Hausa. I consider those who call themself Fulani that only speak Hausa as Hausa. There are indeed 10-15 million Fulfulde (Fulani) speakers in Nigeria, most of which (99% of us) are from the North East aka Adamawa, Gombe and Taraba states. Those 3 states have TRUE Fulani. Other Northern states.....well it's a mix. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Flawlessangel(m): 6:22am On Feb 12, 2015 |
oladosuphemmy:mr man go and look at d least again, igbo is on it......wearing ur bias glasses when reading abi? |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Flawlessangel(m): 6:36am On Feb 12, 2015 |
bigfrancis21:u read my mind....igbos are scattered everywhere and are usually the 2nd or 3rd largest after the main tribe of most states so its hard 2 rili tell their overall population.... 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Funjosh(m): 6:56am On Feb 12, 2015 |
Fulaman198: Have you travelled to some densely populated cities in the South ![]() |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Funjosh(m): 7:10am On Feb 12, 2015 |
Fulaman198: Togo and Ghana inclusive. I never knew that of Ghana until last year when I board a bus from Auchi to Lagos sitting beside a Ghanian man. He made me to understand that they have Ghanian that are Yoruba he even mention if I know one Kayode that he is a minister or so. If we travel and meet people we will underatand a lot of things we don't . |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by cirmuell(m): 7:10am On Feb 12, 2015 |
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Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Nickizoe(f): 7:12am On Feb 12, 2015 |
Whats the point? It jux defines how u hate d igbo's.. And u shld no igbo's aint ashame to speak it out anywhere'' u aint use ur uncle's home to define other igbo's. Proudly igbo. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Fulaman198(m): 7:17am On Feb 12, 2015 |
Funjosh: I mean native for at least 100 years in said territory. I don't think the Yoruba have been in Ghana for 100 years. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Fulaman198(m): 7:18am On Feb 12, 2015 |
Funjosh: Of course lolll what kind of Nigerian would I be haha |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by alphalpha(m): 7:35am On Feb 12, 2015 |
diamondpaul:. bros travel and learn. as soon as u cross Benue state and that horizontal line to the north, Hausa is spoken everywhere. it is the lingua franca of Northern Nigeria bar English and Pidgin |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by alphalpha(m): 7:37am On Feb 12, 2015 |
ChristyG: my brother u are wrong. there are 100 to 120 million Yorubas in Nigeria |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by alphalpha(m): 7:39am On Feb 12, 2015 |
McLuhan: guy kari that your English inclined reasoning park well. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by alphalpha(m): 7:55am On Feb 12, 2015 |
FolarinLondon: Igbo man leave Nigeria, go UK to learn Yoruba? because the UK version na original? tell me say Hausa man leave Sokoto go Kenya to learn ijaw.... |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Nobody: 8:02am On Feb 12, 2015 |
Igbo's like psquare, don jazzy, onyeka onwenu e.t.c sef dey sing for Yoruba.lol + all my Lagos and Ibadan Igbo boys and girls wey sabi Yoruba pass me. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Nobody: 8:14am On Feb 12, 2015 |
Funjosh:You forgot the Yoruba's in sierra Leone and ivory coast. There is a Yoruba tribe in ivory coast that traced their root to onipopo, one of the sons of odua. They speak some "lost" Yoruba language. E.g I have just finished eating=mo ti dun inu(I just made my stomach happy). Some Brazilians and Cubans too speak "lost" Yoruba language. lost here means ancient Yoruba language. Someone said Yoruba moved to Ghana around 100 years ago. It's centuries before that.before that.lol "The Ooni , who said that traditional rulers in West Africa were getting in touch with one another, stated that one of the rulers from Accra , Ghana had written a letter of proposed visit to Ile Ife , claiming that his ancestors hailed from Yorubaland." The ooni was referring to the ewe people. The ewe speak some ancient Yoruba too. These ones are different from the freed Brazilian slaves of Yoruba ancestry(the tabon) and Yoruba traders that settled in Ghana in the early 1800. 1 Like
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Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by splashbaby(m): 8:18am On Feb 12, 2015 |
bigfrancis21:Painting lies and repeating them as if they are true. All the dense population in Igbo land are on scarce land of Onitsha, Aba and probably Owerre. All the rest are rural dwellers living in small groups all over the place. Compare that with massive urban dwellers all over Yoruba land from Lagos to Ibadan, Abeokuta to Ilorin, Ondo to Ogbomosho, Akure to Oshogbo, not leaving out towns like Ilesha, Akure, Ado, Ijebu Ode, Ikire just to name but a few. You claimed Igbos travelled a lot I agree but they are more Yorubas in diaspora than Igbos, if we are to count that we will need two countries the size of Sudan to accommodate them. Two countries in West Africa Togo and Benin have Yoruba as the largest ethnic group...just because we have few noisy Igbo men selling provisions, crayfish, spare parts and cloths around towns in Nigeria do not make them twice as much in population of their host town...in major towns in Nigeria including your Aba and Onitsha Yorubas control the taxi industry, wood industry and the engineering/building industry. It's a common scene in Port Harcourt to hear Yoruba spoken on the streets and in taxis. 4 Likes |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Jokay07(m): 8:27am On Feb 12, 2015 |
Eluwilussit:very good bt pls do me a favour, kindly sit down nd carefully read the links i gave u. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Nobody: 8:35am On Feb 12, 2015 |
splashbaby: Easy. Yoruba is not the largest ethnic group in Benin. And in Togo, they are an even smaller minority. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by zendy: 8:43am On Feb 12, 2015 |
Fulaman198: Until a proper census is done where 'ethnic group' is inserted into the questions,it will be difficult to determin which of Hausa/Fulani,Yoruba and Igbo are the largest. For now,everyone assumes it is the Hausas that are the largest while the Yorubas and Igbos argue amongst themselves who is larger,no one can tell for sure. I like languages and I speak my native Igbo and English with a bit of French and German. The only person I have ever met in my life who could speak the 3 main languages of Hausa,Yoruba and Igbo fluently like a native was Ojukwu (born in the north to Igbo parents,grew up in Lagos as a young boy and worked as military officer in the north,west and east. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by splashbaby(m): 8:51am On Feb 12, 2015 |
Radoillo:Sabe, Ketu, Dassa and many part of Port Novo all speaks Yoruba. The common spoken language in Benin and Togo apart from French and some few dorminant native language is Yoruba |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by zendy: 8:52am On Feb 12, 2015 |
splashbaby: Please don't make me laugh. It is actually a very rare thing to see a Yoruba person in Igboland (with the exception of civil servants who have no choice with their postings). However,it is a very common thing to see Igbos in Yorubaland,even inside where they do their 'Orisa' |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Amagmilton(m): 8:54am On Feb 12, 2015 |
Jokay07:...which population census was that?...if u say there are more number of people in d SW than in the SE, I accept...if u say that more no. Of people speak Yoruba language than Igbo language I may accept..but never 4 ones deceive urself that Yorubas are more populous in Nigeria or in the World at large than igbo...igbos in lagos alone are up to a state..broda igbos are every where!!!!!! 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Nobody: 8:58am On Feb 12, 2015 |
splashbaby: The demographics for both countries are there for anyone to consult. I havent said Yoruba is not spoken there. all I have told you is Yoruba do not form the largest ethnic group in either country. Fon is larger than Yoruba in Benin. The Gbe people are much more numerous than the Yoruba in Togo. In fact, in Togo, the indigenous Yoruba are confined to the area around Atakpame. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by EnigmAries(m): 9:00am On Feb 12, 2015 |
Fulaman198:Remove the bolded from the list. Call a Tangale, hausa and you may be in trouble. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by tonychristopher: 9:02am On Feb 12, 2015 |
[quote author=zendy post=30653887] Until a proper census is done where 'ethnic group' is inserted into the questions,it will be difficult to determin which of Hausa/Fulani,Yoruba and Igbo are the largest. For now,everyone assumes it is the Hausas that are the largest while the Yorubas and Igbos argue amongst themselves who is larger,no one can tell for sure. I like languages and I speak my native Igbo and English with a bit of French and German. The only person I have ever met in my life who could speak the 3 main languages of Hausa,Yoruba and Igbo fluently like a native was Ojukwu (born in the north to Igbo parents,grew up in Lagos as a young boy and worked as military officer in the north,west and east. [/quote One thing is that hausa, Yoruba and igbo are big tribes and I do not see how their languages will die. Hausa is in many west African countries like Nigeria, niger, chad, even mali and Yoruba transvered from south west Nigeria, let me put middle belt areas of okun and even south south of Nigeria, I tag the itshekiri pseudo Yoruba people and they are found in large numbers in benin republic and that aside igbo is also big, they are in south east with large indeginous igbo population in south south like anioma in delta state, the igbo akiri or igbanke in edo state, ezzi in cross river state(where liyel imoke comes from) then we have igbo at the hinges of akwa ibom bordering the ngwa clan, we also have igbo speaking people indeginous to benue state. Then apart from huge igbo in diaspora we have igbo indeginous to equatorial guinea and the language is recognized officially in that country. Now the population of these tribes run in 30 – 35 million people. The question is how will these tribes die. We know these tribes as people that maintain their culture and igbo has used the entertainment industry like music and movie to project their language globally. That is when I went to Doha some Arabian guy ask me is my father igwe. I aske him how did he know that term he said movie of course. Now my Zimbabwe girlfriend will chat with me with a lot of igbo interjection so as to please me, likwe saying nna whatsuo. Udo, arubam popularized by phyno. So is the Yoruba language, yorubas have a way of mixing English with Yoruba and that I find pleasing coupled with the fact that they are outside and I do know that Yoruba and igbo are very educated so as they travel they carry their language with them. How will these major language die. This is not tower of babel so God is not killing anylange. If language will die, it will be the minorities. Look at the olukunmi, they are in delta but migrated by Yoruba but due to been in igbo land the language is dying naturally and the kids are speaking igbo instead of the olukunmi. Languages take up from bigger language, so are the egun and badagry people. Tey are nt Yoruba but surrounded by Yoruba and Yoruba language has taken up egun also |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Amagmilton(m): 9:02am On Feb 12, 2015 |
saxywale:...my friend go and have sit...what is oduduwa or odua ..tells by moon light..2day odua is 4rm Saudi Arabia, 2morrow he is 4rm Egypt.. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by tonychristopher: 9:05am On Feb 12, 2015 |
A language will perish if all who speak it are dead. Thus, anything or anyone that directly threatens the physical safety of a community threatens the survival of the language they speak. Catastrophic natural disasters can decimate or wipe out small communities in isolated areas, leading to a sudden and irreversible extinction of their language. In other cases, unfavorable climatic conditions can result not only in widespread death, but in changing demographic patterns which in turn impact the status of indigenous languages. The most predominant threat to the physical safety of populations in modern times has been imported disease. Since the Age of Exploration, foreign diseases have annihilated entire indigenous communities. By the time of exploration, diseases such as tuberculosis and smallpox had been common in Europe for centuries, meaning that individuals had built antibodies and immunity. When they travelled to foreign lands, they took the diseases with them, infecting indigenous peoples. The inhabitants of the New World had never been exposed to such diseases, and as a consequence, millions died in short periods of time. It is estimated that since the arrival of the first European explorers on the American continent, more than 90% of the indigenous population has died out as a result of introduced diseases. Currently, AIDS is likely to have the greatest impact on the extinction of both communities and Human induced environmental degradation, particularly desertification and deforestation, as well as economic exploitation for resources has forced unplanned and unpredictable migration to take place. In new, often suburban settings, communities struggle to maintain their cultural and linguistic traditions. This trend is predicted to increase as a result of the impacts of climate change. Civil strife, conflicts at an international scale and long-term ethnic or religious enmities also have an effect on the status of languages. For example, several Pacific island languages became endangered in the years following the invasions and battles fought on them by the great Powers during the Second World War. Human induced environmental degradation, particularly desertification and deforestation, as well as economic exploitation for resources has forced unplanned and unpredictable migration to take place. In new, often suburban settings, communities struggle to maintain their cultural and linguistic traditions. This trend is predicted to increase as a result of the impacts of climate change. Civil strife, conflicts at an international scale and long-term ethnic or religious enmities also have an effect on the status of languages. For example, several Pacific island languages became endangered in the years following the invasions and battles fought on them by the great Powers during the Second World War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_death |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by splashbaby(m): 9:10am On Feb 12, 2015 |
zendy: Igbos are not friendly enough to accommodate them...the truth is Igbos like to integrate into other people community, speak their language and behave well like the locals but back home rejects foreigners... I can hardly find any Yorubas that speaks Igbo... Hardly! But have many Igbo friends that speaks Yoruba better than I do. Yet we still manage to have Yoruba population in transport and building industry. The economic situation in the East is not as viable as in other region. This cannot be said of the Hausa/Yoruba relationship. 90% of bread traders in the North are Yorubas who loved their host community with passion. They speak the language and behave like Hausas. 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by diresimdi(m): 9:10am On Feb 12, 2015 |
Going by real and unbiased figures, the OP is right. What gives the Yoruba more population figure is the "politicised or tailored census" figure orchestrated by Nigerian govt. after the civil war. Come to think of it, in every Yoruba State, Igbo is usually the 2nd largest population after the owners of the State. The population of the Igbos in Nigeria is almost times three of the figure being apportioned to them. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by KOBOJO: 9:11am On Feb 12, 2015 |
scholes0: This is quite ridiculous... The census included yorubas from kogi and kwara states and what about the igbos in Benue.,Delta.,Rivers.,Akwaibom.,crossrivers states....?? |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by asha80(m): 9:18am On Feb 12, 2015 |
splashbaby:your post would have made sense if not that the Hausa population in Igbo cities and towns are quite high hence it nullifies the notion that igbos are not accomodating or do not accept foreigners. 1 Like |
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