Hmm. I think yoruba's do make use of their linguistic where they are(even those in diaspora) though they are sometimes annoying back at home, they prefer that FINTINFINTIN language than their own.
But the Igbo's should be more concerned with their language, don't you noticed they hardly stage a Igbo ish Home Video, if they haven't inserted English, they dont feel confident, same as the yoruba's. Most of Hausa's movie are in their dialect.
Atleast, they could speak in their dialect and then Subtitle the movie OR WHAT IS SUBTITLE FOR

List everywhere...








Still waiting for 901 ways to commit suicide.

Hmm

Omo 'badan

True talk!
Indigenous languages are going down into extinction.

Not soon tho.
People might not speak but they understand and know it

I Don't fully understand my language.. and I wish my children would understand it like xoxo... how can that be possible.. please advice.. no ofiennce

As if Naija get language.

Even seun( shugaban kassan nairaland) is not helping matters.


The teach yourself Hausa topic in culture section is supposed to be asterisked alongside other teach urself indigenous nigerian languages in the frontpage of that forum section.




I strongly beg and appeal on behalf of all my other colleagues in the Hausa section...to be endorsed by his royal highness.

Cc. Paretomaster and snowprince007

Some parents even wants their children to speak multiple languages but with the exception of our local languages, they would rather go for French,German,Spanish,Manderin etc.. It Is so sad.

Yoruba isnt dying, its being spoken all over d world yoruba people re living. Its igbo dat is going into extinction. Y re d igbo not using their lang in movies production in Nigeria?

shilees:
Some parents even wants their children to speak multiple languages but with the exception of our local languages, they would rather go for French,German,Spanish,Manderin etc.. It Is so sad.

Which parents? Ppl wey no sabi speak those languages go come leave their own they adopt others? Thats not true neither does it make sense.

will the languages put food on our table? no!

kennygee:
9. We don't value our tribal names anymore.

Instead, we settle for Shantel, Andre, Mason, Cameron and Olivia.

I'm not saying we shouldn't have English names, but our native names should be first then English name should be Secondary or even Eliminated sef.

Kennygee? Wow! And I'm kennyjodeci.... How do we meet b4 31st 9t?

It no easy na to combine dad's dialect,mum dialect's and come top am with Tribal dialect. You see i give up on speaking my dad's dialect nd remain content on my english language as a matter of fact i gave up on Yoruba. When u look at a d negative effect of those dialect u will join my group; There is this beautiful Lady,so endowed then in our computer centre,she got addicted to dialect that she cannot say "How are you doing" without skipping like crack CD despite she schooled in a private school.

If there is need to speak my dialect i will do so but if talking to people i had use my english supplied with small high vocal.

Mun gode Allah for the thought process that prompted this op to raise this issue and for the supermoderator that moved it to front page God bless u.

MillionDollars:
Its starts from u mr op, y nt type your topic nd post in ur native language??

if he was to type thw whole article in his language, do you think you would have responded to his post when you aint from his tribe and you aint able to assimilate his linguistic. So, we cant rule out English, we could just devised our own Language like the Pidgin English.

#TeamPidginEnglish

mhyra:
I Don't fully understand my language.. and I wish my children would understand it like xoxo... how can that be possible.. please advice.. no ofiennce

Its natural dey will understand but they may not be able to speak it like me.

1 time my mom came to my schl,we were communicating in igbo&My class mate in sec.school who speaks igbo fluently came after she left&was like o boy you&your mumsy dey talk in igbo...i was like 'o boy,i be igbo&na it we dey speak for house'..he come talk say for their house na english&during my Primary schl,my job was to colect #5 wen anybody speaks igbo..you see,our parents&teachers encourage it

Olufemiolaolu:
Yoruba isnt dying, its being spoken all over d world yoruba people re living. Its igbo dat is going into extinction. Y re d igbo not using their lang in movies production in Nigeria?

you are rite? Ave argued this..You have traditional movies&instead of speaking igbo,you hear English..so annoying

OP thanks for bringing up a discussion on this great topic.

This issue along with other issues was discussed by a Nigerian academic here



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEs-fEQ_wn4



who concluded that African children are being educated to feel inferior to other races. Refusing to teach Africans in their native language is the major reason why African languages are dying.
According greater status to the language of your slave master than your own native language is a clear cut sign that you feel inferior to other races and majority of Nigerians believe that their native language is inferior to the language of their slave master.
Also African culture is dying courtesy of our media which continues to allow western culture to infiltrate and overtake our own culture. Many Nigerians worship anything that comes from the west and despise their own culture, if we do not reverse this situation our languages and culture will be dead by the next century.

I think nigerian musicians like phyno,morell,ola,flavour,reminsce,davido,wizzy even psquare etc are actually trying in that area..we need more of them

starlingleanets:
Its natural dey will understand but they may not be able to speak it like me.

Huh! Who you be.??

donmalcolm21:
Nigerians view anybody that doesnt speak English as inferior, we blame Pej as if English should be a pre requisite for any communication. In my University days the best student wasnt able to express himself very well but he knew the right formular for every equation. Speaking our own language should be inculcated into our wards before we lost our future to western culture and language.

Which language are you using now hypocrite? Mtchewww!

A good and sound observation, so do u mean the issue of a lingual franca is d answer ?

cap28:
OP thanks for bringing up a discussion on this great topic.

This issue along with other issues was discussed by a Nigerian academic here



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEs-fEQ_wn4



who concluded that African children are being educated to feel inferior to other races. Refusing to teach Africans in their native language is the major reason why African languages are dying.
According greater status to the language of your slave master than your own native language is a clear cut sign that you feel inferior to other races and majority of Nigerians believe that their native language is inferior to the language of their slave master.
Also African culture is dying courtesy of our media which continues to allow western culture to infiltrate and overtake our own culture. Many Nigerians worship anything that comes from the west and despise their own culture, if we do not reverse this situation our languages and culture will be dead by the next century.

That's because it is niqqah! Wole Soyinka didn't win a Nobel with pej. Our languages are inferior. Ur post is clearly written in English abi?

Silkmoth33:



Ka fadi gaskiya!


Duk abun da ka fadi da gaske ka ke!

Ki lo wi?

Ko to yen rara.

Je ka gbora ye.

shilees:
Some parents even wants their children to speak multiple languages but with the exception of our local languages, they would rather go for French,German,Spanish,Manderin etc.. It Is so sad.

The indigenous people of those countries can not stand black people. So if those misguided Nigerian parents like they can continue setting up their children for rejection from those groups of people.

How many white people speak African languages, how many white people give their children African names?

It is good for nigerian languages to die, because language is the main cause of our problems as a nation.
True it is a heritage from our fathers, but it only butreses our differences as anation and tends to divide us and make us see each other as different from us.
It was the cause of the civil war,cos if Ironsi had been overthrown by another Ibo man their would have been no war,but being overthrown by the hausas, the Ibos saw them as different from themselves.
Lets copy the Americans, they are from all corners of the earth with different languages, but chose to speak only 1 language ,which is English.
Thats why Americans unit more than other countries in the world.