With the spate Nigerians are murdering English Language especially our first l... and other politicians, I ponder if we made mistake in choosing English as our lingua franca.
So, which of our native languages would you prefer as our lingua franca?
Hausa? Yoruba? Igbo? Efik/Ibibio?
With reasons...
I would prefer Efik/Ibibio because its easy to learn.

kanuri

abila122:
kanuri

why?

Pidgin english

Cos everybody understands it.. even the white men

Igbo

you would only succeed in creating ethnic division. Threads should be well thought out before you rush to click the "creat button". MODs do the needful.... By the way@ op, i am from Akwa Ibom just like you so dont take it personal.

It should be Yoruba because it is the language that has all the necessary ingredients to have a complete language

MARKone:
Igbo

I think you are high !!!

aljharem:


I think you are high !!!

Yes he is high


On skunk_weed!

olrotimi:
you would only succeed in creating ethnic division. Threads should be well thought out before you rush to click the "creat button". MODs do the needful.... By the way@ op, i am from Akwa Ibom just like you so dont take it personal.

Brother, I disagree with you. English as lingua franca has not done us any good vis a vis unity. It was forced on us by the British.
If we choose one of our native dialect, it will unite us and also promote our culture.
This thread isn't meant to encourage ethnic disunity but to promote our dialect.

Naija Substandard English AKA Pidgin English. every one understands it fro Aboki to Obinna,from Olu to Ebele, from kazahshim to Effiong,from Osakpolor to Ojonugwa.

english isn't our lingua franca, it was Only borrowed. na pigin we supox de take write exam, if not 4 dox oyinbos.

Yet Americans acknowledge our English accent.

mehn check yourself u might be the only victim or may be ur clan

aljharem:


I think you are high !!!

Yeah...

High on my believe that Igbo language, should be our preferred lingua franca.

Deal with it

I would have opted for hausa, but damn I can't help myself..., 'igbo language' anytime-anyday.

ubongutioh:
With the spate Nigerians are murdering English Language especially our first l... and other politicians, I ponder if we made mistake in choosing English as our lingua franca.
So, which of our native languages would you prefer as our lingua franca?
Hausa? Yoruba? Igbo? Efik/Ibibio?
With reasons...
I would prefer Efik/Ibibio because its easy to learn.

There was a certain Edo man who carried out an experiment to create a new language, based on all of Nigeria's languages, and some from other West African countries. That new language is called Guosa.

Check out the link for more info: http://www.dawodu.net/guosa1.htm

Here is another link to a thread on nairaland about Guosa: https://www.nairaland.com/48070/guosa-nigerias-long-awaited-indigenous-lingua

aljharem:


I think you are high !!!

The OP suggested his language (Efik/Ibibio). Someone with a Northern-sounding name suggested a Northern language (Kanuri). You suggested your language (Yoruba). Someone else suggested his language (Igbo).

But you made a beeline for the Igbo man's comment. Are you always like that?

onuwaje:
Pidgin english

Cos everybody understands it.. even the white men

are u serious? what kind of low self esteem is tha? so with all your rich languages the only thing you could come up with is a bastard dialect? smh

Igbo they are evrywhere in nigeria where they form big community, so the language can easily spread throughout the country + it is very catchy

Hausa: large speaking community by both hausa and non hausa, however the language is only spoken in the north however with the recent cultural awakening of minorities in the north non hausa are rejecting it ..but it still holds strong there are also chances that the rest of the country sees it as a northernization of the country or hausa-fulani supremacy

CAMNEWTON4PRES:
are u serious? what kind of low self esteem is tha? so with all your rich languages the only thing you could come up with is a bastard dialect? smh

Igbo they are evrywhere in nigeria where they form big community, so the language can easily spread throughout the country + it is very catchy

Hausa: large speaking community by both hausa and non hausa, however the language is only spoken in the north however with the recent cultural awakening of minorities in the north non hausa are rejecting it ..but it still holds strong there are also chances that the rest of the country sees it as a northernization of the country or hausa-fulani supremacy

you call language 'bastard' n yet you feel urs isn't bastard?

onuwaje:
you call language 'bastard' n yet you feel urs isn't bastard?

pidigin is not a language, it is a dialect at best and yes it is a bastard dialect

CAMNEWTON4PRES:
pidigin is not a language, it is a dialect at best and yes it is a bastard dialect

Wats d difference between a dialect and a language?

onuwaje:
Wats d difference between a dialect and a language?

Dialect is the one you are speaking, language is the written one.. shuuuu, jamb question.

ubongutioh:

Dialect is the one you are speaking, language is the written one.. shuuuu, jamb question.

so u mean 'shuu' is a dialect u just wrote??

onuwaje:
so u mean 'shuu' is a dialect u just wrote??

lol

Wulfruna:


The OP suggested his language (Efik/Ibibio). Someone with a Northern-sounding name suggested a Northern language (Kanuri). You suggested your language (Yoruba). Someone else suggested his language (Igbo).

But you made a beeline for the Igbo man's comment. Are you always like that?

Was just pulling his leg. Haba, I am not that bad

Admit it and shame d devil, what other language order than arguably d second most spoken language in Africa, easy to understand, sexy, widely use by BBC, VOA,German, Dutch, Russia media in Radio transmission.


Give it up to HAUSA joor.

aljharem:
It should be Yoruba because it is the language that has all the necessary ingredients to have a complete language

Ingredients like iru and alubosa?

Paretomaster:
Admit it and shame d devil, what other language order than arguably d second most spoken language in Africa, easy to understand, sexy, widely use by BBC, VOA,German, Dutch, Russia media in Radio transmission.


Give it up to HAUSA joor.

Sexy?
What's sexy about the hausa accent?
'

Zeemoor:

Ingredients like iru and alubosa?

O get e!

ubongutioh:

Dialect is the one you are speaking, language is the written one.. shuuuu, jamb question.

chisos !!

Hausa written in Ajami.

Zeemoor:

Sexy?
What's sexy about the hausa accent?
'

Ah! Iyawo mi longest time, if u can speak n understand Hausa, u will understand wat am saying.