I observes that majority of yoruba in lagos had lost touch with their languages. What is responsible for this and any hope for them?

Another observation is yoruba Eko. This adalu language whereby English and yoruba language had to be combined in conversation. For instance, to won ban soro wo o lese lati ma mix everything papo. In fact, won man confuse ara won gan ni!

Let hear your view.

fatty27:

I observes that majority of yoruba in lagos had lost touch with their languages. What is responsible for this and any hope for them?

Another observation is yoruba Eko. This adalu language whereby English and yoruba language had to be combined in conversation. For instance, to won ban soro wo o lese lati ma mix everything papo. In fact, won man confuse ara won gan ni!

Let hear your view.

even though i'm not in lagos, i think that yorubas do better in keeping there culture than the igbos.

@poster
U are right about your observation. Gradualy, the REAL way of speaking yoruba is dying. We all want to speak english (and there is nothing wrong with that) but we are failing to preserve our own language/dialect. It used to be that we don't even speak english fluently until we get to secondary school, now, a 3yr old is speaking english b4 learning how to speak his/her own tongue. Many parents even forbid their children to speak any other language besides english. Hence, it's becoming more difficult for our offsprings to speak our own language Any Nigerian language/dialect actually sound funny or local to them. That is why the very few of them that can speak yoruba/ibo/hausa find it necessary to dilute it with english. What can we do It's the trend. Abi

what's the real way of speaking Yoruba?

People have different dialects.

and mixing Yoruenglish doesnt have to be a big deal

or Yoru- something else

Yes, tpia It's no big deal, we are all guilty of that anyway. Emi gan o le soro meji without using naijenglish. We are just discussing it sha.

even though i'm not in lagos, i think that yorubas do better in keeping there culture than the igbos.



thats because the igbos refuse to live in their homeland. living too much in the diaspora will cause you to lose your culture. It happened to european jewry, until hitler crushed them. I hope the Igbos will learn from history

^^ I thought european jewry stood out at the time because they kept their culture.