The Urhobo's Are Ashamed Of Their Culture Why?

the urhobo of the niger-delta part of the country are a divers people with a good cultural heritage. but i am surprised that other tribes like the yoruba's,ibo's and the hausa's value their la ;)nguage alot . i discovered that once you can speak any of these languages fluently you are considered as one of them. but its only the urhobos's that are ashamed of their language . if you speak urhobo to an urhobo man, he will reply in english. why? emo urhobo eje akpar'urhobo kpenu. urhobo wado!mi ni wado! urhobo ovuovo oh!

I don't think this is true. The urhobos in my company are extremely proud of it. You would almost wish you were an urhobo

iniovo me wado, kidie osoro wa eje urhobo? Ifiki edie wa eje English gaga. Wa juomawoto. Biko kpari Urhobo kpenu.

urhobo wado, mi ni wado, eeee eyeeee!

@elohor1.

I can't make a head or tail from your last comment. But whether or not it is an insult is something I have to ignore.

Back to topic:

I am not here to doubt what you have or have not seen, neither am I here to make you accept my views. Take it or leave it. . . there are Igbo and Yoruba parents that forbid their children from speaking their native tongue at home. . . from Akure to Umuahia, you will find them in abundance and just like I stated earlier, they are very insignificant.

I made that comment to support my argument that Urhobo people are proud of their heritage and the action of a tiny microscopic number of  misguided and clueless urhobo people shouldn't be used to judge an entire ethnic group. And my point? The number of Urhobo people who are not 'proud' of their culture when compared to those who will represent their people at any given date is like a drop of water into the Atlantic Ocean. . . very insignificant and it cuts across all tribal lines.

this is real,my brother said he wished we were from a different tribe,by him different is yoruba or ibo and he wish he can speak it.because he hears it everywhere.
he thinks urhobo language is embarrassing.
but in my house pidgin english is the norm.my dad hardly speaks urhobo.so i don't really understand it very well.i would have loved to.

Interesting. I'm Urhobo, but my parents always spoke English to myaelf and my sisters at home, we only picked up Urhobo, because my grandparents spoke only Urhobo, and very rudimentary pidgin.

We never spoke pidgin at home either, that was again something we picked up at school. I can speak Urhobo fairly well, though I haven't spoken it in almost 18 years of living in the UK. I can understand it perfectly though, and actually read it (I understand perfectly what Elohor wrote). So, speaking to an Urhobo person in Urhobo, and they answer in English does NOT mean they're ashamed of their language! I do the same, unless it's someone who knows me quite well, and can follow my stumbling Urhobo talk!

Incidentally, Elohor happens to be my older sister's name too!

it is  not on;y the urhobos. This happens to other ethnic group. I beleive it has to do with the excessive exposure to western influnece and the believe that speaking english laguage only make one civilised.  I have so may cousins that do not know a word of igbo lanuguage yet they do not know how an airport looks like. Probably we all going back to Babel.

In all the igbo families I know here including my in laws, not one of the children speak igbo.

I am not sure you're urhobo,because i am one.and very proud to be.iam frm ughevughe in ughelli south.i love the language n speak any where.I like to meet all urhobos in the house
urhobo wado!mi ni wado! urhobo ovuovo oh!

Eloho, y u dey fall our hand now, dt tin wey u yarn so no b 2ru ohhh shuuuuu

I send my langua die, if i kno spit my langua who go help me spit am

Urhobo wa do

one more minority tribe going extinct.
2 down, 248 to go

_{na one by one}

i'll like to speak urhobo, but don't know how to, anyone here to teach me?

Urhobo WaDo, born & raise in effurun, i'm proud of my dialet So @ oga tech u bi Urhobo man?