By "fast", I'm referring to the speech rate or speed, as would be judged by a non-speaker of such language.
Sometimes you wonder if they are really talking or merely rolling their tongues a thousand times. To me, I think they come in this order:

(4) Igbo
(3) Hausa
(2)Yoruba
(1) Efik/Ibibio

What do you think?

Objection my lord,no where in this country Yoruba language isn't spoken and understood prior to some other ethnic group of people who have been to lagos to hustle and relocated back to their village,after english(pidgin) comes yoruba.

aaronson: Objection my lord,no where in this country Yoruba language isn't spoken and understood prior to some other ethnic group of people who have been to lagos to hustle and relocated back to their village,after english(pidgin) comes yoruba.

Maybe you didn't me, I was refering to the speech rate: how fast or how slow speakers of each sound.

humnsikan:
Maybe you didn't me, I was refering to the speech rate: how fast or how slow speakers of each sound.

speed and slow doesn't matter in language joooor,the only phenomenon in which the speed of verbal speech is appreciated and important is rap song.

aaronson: speed and slow doesn't matter in language joooor,the only phenomenon in which the speed of verbal speech is appreciated and important is rap song.

It does matter; atleast, it's easier to learn the slow-paced ones. Wonder why it's easier for someone who's only learned english and Russian for a month to understand native russian speakers better their english counterparts? The speed at which english is spoken is 4x that of russian. This research was done on international languages, so I thought we could replicate it on our own languages.

humnsikan:

It does matter; atleast, it's easier to learn the slow-paced ones. Wonder why it's easier for someone who's only learned english and Russian for a month to understand native russian speakers better their english counterparts? The speed at which english is spoken is 4x that of russian. This research was done on international languages, so I thought we could replicate it on our own languages.

irrelevant

aaronson: irrelevant

To you.