I work as a translator, and i constantly get jobs in some Nigerian languages like Efik, Ebira, Urhobo, Ogoni, Fulani, Itsekiri etc. Are there really people who can translate from English into all these languages? I feel since these languages are not being taught in Schools, they may be getting obsolete. There is a frantic need to revive them, and i would love to know people who can speak and write these languages very well.

so how did the colonials communicate in these areas, since you know more than them?

dictionary of efik language, written by hugh goldie in 1862


http://books.google.com/books?id=g9rTAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_book_similarbooks


threads like these dont allow nairaland to be taken seriously.

If you're really interested in finding native speakers of these languages, you'd have to go their respective localities. If you go to the creeks and mangrove swamps of Akwa Ibom and Cross River, you'll find young children and old men and women who don't know a spot of English.

odumchi: If you're really interested in finding native speakers of these languages, you'd have to go their respective localities. If you go to the creeks and mangrove swamps of Akwa Ibom and Cross River, you'll find young children and old men and women who don't know a spot of English.

If they can't speak English at all, then they can't translate from English to their languages or vice versa.

tpia@:
dictionary of efik language, written by hugh goldie in 1862


http://books.google.com/books?id=g9rTAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_book_similarbooks


threads like these dont allow nairaland to be taken seriously.

Hello, why are you offended? Because one is suggesting that the languages should not be allowed to die? Always try to understand the point being made and don't start taking offence unnecessarily! Abi you no understand simple English?

^ are you the one killing the languages?

who exactly appointed you the language monitor?


what's this supposed to mean:

I feel since these languages are not being taught in Schools, they may be getting obsolete. There is a frantic need to revive them

when there are millions of native speakers of these languages who you intentionally insulted with your d.aft post?

do you need to rephrase?

tpia@:
^ are you the one killing the languages?

who exactly appointed you the language monitor?


what's this supposed to mean:



when there are millions of native speakers of these languages who you intentionally insulted with your d.aft post?

do you need to rephrase?

Kudos to you, Ph.D Abusive languages; More grease to your elbow. Try some more abuses so we can assess your skills. I have no time for your type!

^nobody is abusing you, ma'am.

rather, you're the one abusing yourself.

Yemmie21:

If they can't speak English at all, then they can't translate from English to their languages or vice versa.

many people from these areas speak more languages than you