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This is a welcome development as it shows that Google recognize Yoruba language, but i don't really know it's usefulness since about 95% of Yoruba people that have access to the WWW can read and write English.

Anyway, thumb-up for those great guys at Googleplex.

This is going to be cool. But do we really need that?

Google in Hausa would have been a more useful project IMHO.

Yeah, because hausa is easier to learn, type write and whatnot. Yoruba has all those crazy ass marks and so many stuffs meaning the same.

Well, I beleive you can help google translate it into other languages, so go go go!

If they are gonna pay me. Big money, Off i go!

Mennnnnnnnnn this is great. Good job google. At least a Nigerian language is represented on the internet, somehow.

Wow! That's so cool! I couldn't believe my eyes at first!

Dats big Time crap!!! dats not yoruba language, no AMI!! no pronunciation mark! laidback Nija’s of Africana’s need to start makin their own inventions.

hausa would have been betetr because less of them speak english. But its nevertheless a great thing. i dont know why so many nigerians are ok if our languages die off

DE-KING:

Mennnnnnnnnn this is great. Good job google. At least a Nigerian language is represented on the internet, somehow.

You ovbiously haven't been here. That is the widest spoken Nigerian language as can be seen here, and IMHO, if we were to adopt an official language from any of Nigeria's indigenous, it should be the one!

I agree. But because of infighting most people wont agree. i love the langauge, but it will feed the stuatus quo where the hausas believe they were born to rule

w00t, i like the hausa bbc.

too bad i can't read it ...

That's really cool though, but I would've preferred it if it was in pidgin - everyone would be able to relate too. Anyways, glad to know that Nigerian languages are finally coming out.

obong:

I agree. But because of infighting most people wont agree. i love the langauge, but it will feed the stuatus quo where the hausas believe they were born to rule

Actually, it is the Fulani who believe that they are born to rule...

Great development from the big boys from Google. What else can make an internationalized business? Google has really make yoruba feel that they are relevant in the world.

Though they never finished what could make the developmet relevant. In my search on the page, it showed that you must understand english to make searches. It only give google text in yoruba language not what the user want.

What they need add is to translate the search result to Yoruba language.

e-skima, why don't you write to google and volunteer to translate the search results. you can do it.

yeah e-wesley. Am a web developer. It is possible. But alot of work.

gbabe!

This is the UN human Rights in Pidgin English.
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You can get the rest on this link http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/pcm.htm

To bring message to people through (personalised) that is my dream, i will take it to the next level . Expect it soon. !

i've seen that pidgin english stuff before. neat stuff but very hard to read. pidgin english is a pain in the ass when reading, especially voluminous reading, but its cool all the same to speak and to write in.

what of Google in Igbo? Yoruba, hausa or Igbo all bull rubbish if you ask me, because they don't mix with technology. Google.com carry go jare!

whatever ... it is Google in a Nigerian Language which should bring credit to us. Our ethnicity is strong and should not be underestimated

Pidgin English isn't hard to read at all. Infact, it makes whatever you are reading more interesting. I think we need a Pidgin English Bible.

IAH, you're right. pidgin is very sweet, reading and speaking. I dont know why anyone would think our langauges dont mix with technology. Now we need google in ibibio

Okay this is getting interesting. Ibibio?? Wh not try Igbira?

why not all of them. The chinese have made sure all 55 of thier ethnic langaues survive next to thier mani chinese language. same with india

Tell that to google manager. Nigeria has more than 55 languages, that are totaly different from each other (250 languages if i am right). Chinese people speak languages that are almost the same, but different in some ways. Nigerians?? Nahhh, We speak in tongues.

i wrote to the google people to see if they can add ibibio. If you want a certain langauge there, you should perhaps write to them as well.

The chinese langaues are quite different from each other, but they have a standad chinese that we know of (mandarin and cantonese). The chinese are a bunch of different ethnic groups as well that were unified a while ago

I will write them to add ermm, Delta Igbo (it's different from normal igbo).

i didnt even see igbo on the list of langaues they had. hausa, wolof, swahili were there. they are open to translating every langauge out there. they just need volunteers