bigfrancis21:


Lots of Hausas living in the east speak Igbo fluently. You just don't find them online. Neither would you easily find them in the North or West. You need to be in the east to see them. I grew up partially in Owerri and in the state capital, the Hausas have a thriving settlement called 'ama awusa' in Igbo meaning 'Hausa settlement/area', where they live, trade and co-habit peacefully with the Igbos. Tons of those Hausas speak and understand Igbo fluently, many times with an Hausa accent. Just walking past that area you would find several smart well-dressed Hausa businessmen by the roadside speaking fluent Igbo to you trying to attract you to their line of business. These men trade in several lines of business from currency exchange, tailoring, suya businesses etc.

The fact is that Hausas are just not predisposed like the Igbos or Yorubas to actively use social media and it explains why you don't find much of them on this forum. Thus you have a very small sample size for your statistics.

I have seen several Yorubas who can speak Igbo as well, but they were mostly in the East. Heck while I was in UNN, this yoruba man, ayo, could speak not just Igbo but very core Nsukka dialect, as natively as the lead actress in the Igbo movie, Nwa Nsukka, could speak it. Yorubas are not predisposed to traveling to the east that much so you have a smaller number of those who speak Igbo.

Just as the multi-lingual Igbos you see are those living outside Igboland, you would have to travel to Igboland to find Igbo-speaking non natives.

From my observation, Yorubas are not as inclined to learn Igbo language as Igbos are to learn Yoruba or Hausa. The Hausas seem to be more inclined to learn Igbo than Yorubas. I know this Yoruba real estate agent in Owerri who speaks Igbo very well and it really helps his business. This is the very same ideology that the Igbos realize that makes those living outside Igboland willing to learn the language of their hosts to promote their business.

In Nigeria, those from the south-south especially the Ibibio/Efik, parts of Ijawland etc. and the Idomas, Hausas etc. show the most willingness to learn Igbo language.

I've written about this before. There are lots of Igbo-speaking non Igbos especially in the south east but you don't often see them. Nollywood should begin producing movies acted entirely by Igbo-speaking non Igbos and watch how these movies would sell. There are many of them out there. It would definitely be a pleasant sight to tune to an Igbo language movie with cast names all of non-Igbo origin but acted entirely in Igbo language.

Lol! Maybe you're right. Coming from a hausa family and growing up in the north I've never actually met one myself nor heard of such instances, I guess they have motives for learning the language since they need it to trade but over here the motive completely absent I guess that's why I thought it almost impossible.


Good info. Would love to meet such hausas.

MorrowCaligari:


Lol! Maybe you're right. Coming from a hausa family and growing up in the north I've never actually met one myself nor heard of such instances, I guess they have motives for learning the language since they need it to trade but over here the motive completely absent I guess that's why I thought it almost impossible.


Good info. Would love to meet such hausas.

Yea just take a trip down to Owerri. Ask of ama awusa, which is located along Douglas road.

bigfrancis21:


Yea just take a trip down to Owerri. Ask of ama awusa, which is located along Douglas road.

When I finally get the courage to leave the north I'll be sure to check it out.

DanZubair:
O bu n'imaghi maka mkpuruokwu ndi oyibo kporo "Typographical error" A mam n'onweghi mgbe mga asukata maobu dekata ka ndi afo...

Ashi'm na igbaniri agbani. Nye'm aka.

MorrowCaligari:


Radoillo in disguise.

You don't know radoillo, he is above such petty affairs.

I think you create duplicate people with ease, opcnairaland, gataino etc.

You almost confused me once. Until you created duplicate opc / tpa.

happy new year radoillo, the great.

2prexios:


You don't know radoillo, he is above such petty affairs.

I think you create duplicate people with ease, opcnairaland, gataino etc.

You almost confused me once. Until you created duplicate opc / tpa.

happy new year radoillo, the great.

Happy new year, Ladi, word de-encryptor extraordinaire.

2prexios:


You don't know radoillo, he is above such petty affairs.

I think you create duplicate people with ease, opcnairaland, gataino etc.

You almost confused me once. Until you created duplicate opc / tpa.

happy new year radoillo, the great.

lol! so youve noticed gat.iano and opc are the same person? same thing i concluded when one of them was busy trying to insult me and the other trying to play gandhi. besides, opc/gat is sort of my nemesis, check my previous posts. seems i didnt almost confuse you, i did confuse you. though i admit having multiple accounts, i deactivate before moving to another, e.g parrishnorwood voslergrimsbane valhalladrabek (notice the trend?) etc and tpia is a different person entirely, all his accounts have similar names though lie tpiar. and btw, i did respect radoillo until i discovered hes a colossal arsehole.

Radoillo:


Happy new year, Ladi, word de-encryptor extraordinaire.

more like re.tard extraordinaire

2prexios Radoillo

MorrowCaligari:


lol! so youve noticed gat.iano and opc are the same person? same thing i concluded when one of them was busy trying to insult me and the other trying to play gandhi. besides, opc/gat is sort of my nemesis, check my previous posts. seems i didnt almost confuse you, i did confuse you. though i admit having multiple accounts, i deactivate before moving to another, e.g parrishnorwood voslergrimsbane valhalladrabek (notice the trend?) etc and tpia is a different person entirely, all his accounts have similar names though lie tpiar. and btw, i did respect radoillo until i discovered hes a colossal arsehole.

Just show me where this colossal 'arseholery' was displayed in the discussion leading up to you calling me Dan Zubair's alternate account.

Radoillo:


Happy new year, Ladi, word de-encryptor extraordinaire.

Like seriously?

We have a decoder of the year be that oooooo.

I'm really excited that you appreciate something like that, LOL. I swear we are belittling our languages.

In time, the Igbo decryptor will come here too. We just have to move up to the codes in our languages, they will never come down to us.

I wish we can all learn the tricks, it's a great subject, waiting to be explored.

Hope to learn wonderful world that's going to unfold from you, my boss and all, this year. Igbo never disappoints.

I'm sending my heartfelt greetings to the most erudite bigfrancis, by the grace of God.

bigfrancis21:


Yea just take a trip down to Owerri. Ask of ama awusa, which is located along Douglas road.

Contrary to your submissions about the yoruba not too willing to learn the igbo language, I think that's not so true, the fact is that certain factors are responsible of which their not travelling out of the homeland especially to eastern part is a chief, is responsible. Northern parts has large concentration of yoruba settling there, and 80% of them speak hausa language very well. For one, I don't know why they don't trail the east the way the did with the north. Trust me, if a large number of them are found in the east, just as the few there that speak moderate igbo language, so also will be the larger part. Except for few gifted people, it is very difficult to learn other people's language outside their enclave sphere.

MorrowCaligari:
2prexios Radoillo

LOL,
You duplicated me with my boss.
Megida, you are an impossible guy.

2prexios:


LOL,

You duplicated me with my boss.

Megida, you are an impossible guy.

alobam, shuuut the fvck up. read between the lines, didnt say you were the same person, clearly hes smarter than you. thats not a compliment.

MorrowCaligari:


lol! so youve noticed gat.iano and opc are the same person? same thing i concluded when one of them was busy trying to insult me and the other trying to play gandhi. besides, opc/gat is sort of my nemesis, check my previous posts. seems i didnt almost confuse you, i did confuse you. though i admit having multiple accounts, i deactivate before moving to another, e.g parrishnorwood voslergrimsbane valhalladrabek (notice the trend?) etc and tpia is a different person entirely, all his accounts have similar names though lie tpiar. and btw, i did respect radoillo until i discovered hes a colossal arsehole.

eh,

who is safe?

I don't think opcnairaland is the same as gati.ano.

Gati.ano is another impossible nairalander.

each of us have one issue or the other, only few teach and represent what the platform is made for,

hence I respects radoillo and co, one of the most clean guys around.

MorrowCaligari:


alobam, shuuut the fvck up. read between the lines, didnt say you were the same person, clearly hes smarter than you. thats not a compliment.

It's ogbeni,

I be Omo Ogun.

2prexios:


You don't know radoillo, he is above such petty affairs.

I think you create duplicate people with ease, opcnairaland, gataino etc.

You almost confused me once. Until you created duplicate opc / tpa.

happy new year radoillo, the great.

stop mentioning my name and more importantly, stop telling lies about me.

itstpia8:


stop mentioning my name and more importantly, stop telling lies about me.

Read the post.

2prexios:


Read the post.

cc: absolutesuccess

Lado, we need you on this medium cos of ya knowledge of Yoruba history/culture/etymology.

This is the link: Yoruba

Shymm3x:


cc: absolutesuccess

Lado, we need you on this medium cos of ya knowledge of Yoruba history/culture/etymology.

This is the link: Yoruba

Great man,

happy new year and thanks for the invitation,

I'll come with useful materials.

Yoruba Arise.

2prexios:


Read the post.

i am not reading anything.

stop mentioning my moniker.

absoluteSuccess:


Great man,

happy new year and thanks for the invitation,

I'll come with useful materials.

Yoruba Arise.

Happy new year, bro.

We're expecting you and ya supreme knowledge.

Shymm3x:


Happy new year, bro.

We're expecting you and ya supreme knowledge.

LOL,

We are incredibly blessed, great and awesome.

I tried the link but its not going earlier. I'll try again.

...Wow, that's a Library of congress for good!

FisifunKododada:



Mosdef - although its been awhile I saw him on NL

he may be using google translator