babaowo: i attended.

speedyboi:
U jst spoke it urself!!! . Meanwhile, I dnt knw common gudday in Igbo..nd I dnt evn want to....I prefer hausa, its attracts me wen I see pple conversing in hausa....bt igbo puts pple off incase u dnt knw...dats d main reason u av very low amount of speakers in d world..evn Nigeria.

Kingsleyinfo: I wonder how people think?
So because someone said the yoruba language is widely spoken, another one is shouting we are the best.
The truth is, an average yoruba man does not want to learn and speak another language. They have the mentality that people must learn theirs but they don't want to learn other peoples own.
Sometimes I hear people telling me, so u are yet to learn the language after 3months in yoruba land, and I tell them there are better things for me to learn than bug myself with anybodys language.
I have been with other ethnicity and I am yet to see the crave for people to speak their languages so bad.
I had a discussion with a friend in camp.

Me: am not interested in learning yoruba
Friend: you will have to
Me: why?
Friend: that's the purpose of Nysc
Me:really, then what re u doing here?
Friend: shut up there, u just have to learn it.
Me: try forcing me then, why can't u speak English, which is the official language,
Friend: cos it is my language.
Me: why did u work ur posting to ogun state, if u think its good to learn another mans language
Friend: *cant answer, just smiling and murmuring gibberish*

This was a guy who is from ogun state, schooled in ogun state, and is serving in ogun state, trying to lecture me on the purpose of Nysc just because I refused to learn yoruba.
My problem has never been with the language, but rather with the people and their very tribalistic nature, its practically ingrained into them.
now see these ones trying to interpret a simple statistical data as meaning they are the best, if I may ask BEST IN WHAT?
Please yoruba is ür dialect other people have theirs, or is it a sin to be from another tribe.
wether yoruba is widely spoken or not, it still does not make them the best at anything.
N.B: your culture is the best my arsse...

alj harem:

You see my friend, all I see you just as many Igbos on this thread exhibiting envy.

Now I am a yoruba man and I have learnt almost all the Nigerian languages and their individual dialects to even a group as small of just 10,000 people.

I have also travelled to various parts of the country. Now I am telling this to show you that I am not ignorant at all.

I ask, why should you question people from learning your langauge. It is daf.t really !!!

If You traval to france, do you not learn french ?

If you travel to England, do you not learn English ? What makes Yoruba or hausa or Igbo any different ?

I travelled to Anambra once, and I learn Igbo

I travelled to port harcourt and learn Ijaw etc so why is your own any different. Also I am sure NO YORUBA MAN WOULD FORCE YOU TO LEARN HIS LANGAUGE, it is completely you choice. Just as you cannot force a horse to drink water, I am sure you were never forced !!!!!!

You went to Ogun and you are proud to be saying English is the offical langauge like a mor.on. Have you learn the langauge in your enivornment first ? If you get lost, would english langauge or the langauge in your enivornment save your life ?

Your case just as so many Igbos on this thread is PURE INFERIORITY COMPLEX and envy.

Theblessed: [size=16pt]Who is this one? And where are you getting your information from? Wikepedie, eh?

Next time, research well before bias minds.

If Yoruba language is the most popular African Language, I wonder what Swahili language is doing on African soil.

Swahili is spoken by almost everyone in East Africa and Southern a a little towards Central Africa - ok??

So, next time, get your facts right when you go looking for sources such as Wikipedie to authenticate your story in order to make it credible.[/size]

Kingsleyinfo: I wonder how people think?
So because someone said the yoruba language is widely spoken, another one is shouting we are the best.
The truth is, an average yoruba man does not want to learn and speak another language. They have the mentality that people must learn theirs but they don't want to learn other peoples own.
Sometimes I hear people telling me, so u are yet to learn the language after 3months in yoruba land, and I tell them there are better things for me to learn than bug myself with anybodys language.
I have been with other ethnicity and I am yet to see the crave for people to speak their languages so bad.
I had a discussion with a friend in camp.

Me: am not interested in learning yoruba
Friend: you will have to
Me: why?
Friend: that's the purpose of Nysc
Me:really, then what re u doing here?
Friend: shut up there, u just have to learn it.
Me: try forcing me then, why can't u speak English, which is the official language,
Friend: cos it is my language.
Me: why did u work ur posting to ogun state, if u think its good to learn another mans language
Friend: *cant answer, just smiling and murmuring gibberish*

This was a guy who is from ogun state, schooled in ogun state, and is serving in ogun state, trying to lecture me on the purpose of Nysc just because I refused to learn yoruba.
My problem has never been with the language, but rather with the people and their very tribalistic nature, its practically ingrained into them.
now see these ones trying to interpret a simple statistical data as meaning they are the best, if I may ask BEST IN WHAT?
Please yoruba is ür dialect other people have theirs, or is it a sin to be from another tribe.
wether yoruba is widely spoken or not, it still does not make them the best at anything.
N.B: your culture is the best my arsse...

alj harem:

You see my friend, all I see you just as many Igbos on this thread exhibiting envy.

Now I am a yoruba man and I have learnt almost all the Nigerian languages and their individual dialects to even a group as small of just 10,000 people.

I have also travelled to various parts of the country. Now I am telling this to show you that I am not ignorant at all.

I ask, why should you question people from learning your langauge. It is daf.t really !!!

If You traval to france, do you not learn french ?

If you travel to England, do you not learn English ? What makes Yoruba or hausa or Igbo any different ?

I travelled to Anambra once, and I learn Igbo

I travelled to port harcourt and learn Ijaw etc so why is your own any different. Also I am sure NO YORUBA MAN WOULD FORCE YOU TO LEARN HIS LANGAUGE, it is completely you choice. Just as you cannot force a horse to drink water, I am sure you were never forced !!!!!!

You went to Ogun and you are proud to be saying English is the offical langauge like a mor.on. Have you learn the langauge in your enivornment first ? If you get lost, would english langauge or the langauge in your enivornment save your life ?

Your case just as so many Igbos on this thread is [b]PURE INFERIORITY COMPLEX and envy.[/b]

Jawn:
Yoruba !!! E yee tan ra yin. Clueless and hopless poeple

saxywale: hehehe, don't get it twisted. No one quoting from wiki, it was wiki founder that confirmed the info himself when last he was in Lagos.

Sam_Ikenna:

While on many occasions you've shown yourself to be a genuinely nice guy thats balanced sometimes, you have also exhibited a terrifying obsession with Igbo. Its like Igbo is always lurking in the alley waiting to attack anything good in Yorubaland (I'm not even sure you're Yoruba). If any body says anything contrary to the opinion of Yorubas - Oh! it must be Igbo. Man that kind of stinks! I'm Igbo, do you think I spend my nights worrying about Yoruba? You honestly believe that? The first 2 Nigerians I worked with when I newly came here are Yorubas and we both knew each other's secrets and we're cool so what makes you think we're seeking to destroy Yoruba or we feel inferior to any human is beyond me.

Go bact to Nigerian History right from the arrival of the Brits, does anything show we feel inferior in our culture? In fact you need to read what the brits said about Igbo. If anything its the opposite. Brits hated us because we will never succumb to their whimps. Do you know most of my ancestors got themselves drowned in American rivers rather than serve another man? Go read the slave history and tell me who the slave masters sold higher than others.

If you must know, Igboman's will is cast in iron, but if you keep fooling yourself with this inferiority complex bull then you will wake up one day to realize how much you lied to yourself. This message is almost like the message I sent ndu_chuks on his consistent victory speech "we won the war, we won the war" but from the looks of things in Nigeria it doesnt look like he won anything.

alj Harem, you do need to throw away this "Igbo is envious, Igbo feels inferior" because we dont. We're a people that threw away Kings and queens because we dont like taking orders from no man - our history is your guide. If you dig deeper in our history you will find that our culture makes us competitive even amongst each other - you need me to remind you why the Brits shipped Jaja of Opobo away? Guess what- its because he out-competed the brits and they would never have any of it hence they got rid of him. So, if you ever think we're jealous of any man think again. There's a huge difference between trying to win and being jealous, we're success driven to no end, it doesnt matter if we start late or early we believe we can make it- sometimes we do sometimes we dont but thats Igbo for you.

I respect every race in Nigeria but I dont get jealous of them one bit. I wont even swap places with them even in 1970 when they "won" their war. So, bro this is Naija where every one is highly opinionated. Thinking someone some where is jealous of you or envious of you is bull. No body in Nigeria will swap places with anyone - the earlier you realize that the better.

Theblessed:



Well, as you can see in this case, he failed to do his homework and did not consult his History Book properly before opening up his gab therefore, irrespective of who he is and what he stand for - we take his confirmation this time, at face value - worthless!

Andre Uweh: @Alh Harem, I can't believe that you travelled to Port Harcourt to learn Ijaw, in a City where Igbo is more spoken than Ijaw. It is like saying you travelled to Ilorin to learn Nupe while Yoruba is more widely spoken in Ilorin.
Na wa.

ebecode: Why are some ppl complainig dat Yorubas want oda ppl to speak their language self? I remember when i was doing my NYSC in AKWA ''ABASI'' IBOM STATE.One fateful night lyk dat,i was in d dark waitin for my girl BOKIME,all of a sudden an old man appeared with one shining big cutlass & stated shouting ''ATU UKE''.If not 4 my little knowledge of IBIBIO language which i took a grt personal pain 2 lean,only God knows what wld av happened.If happen to travel to IMO STATE 2mao,i wil gladly lean IGBO.So if u want 2 live in oda ppl territory & u don't wanna lean their lang. Then b ready 4 all d dangers dat comes wit it.GOD BLESS NAIRALANDERS!