Shit mhen

Joavid: Wow!
Informative post @ op.

I observed that most the languages listed by the op are of minority groups mostly located in central part of Nigeria(north central).
and I can't entirely blame the desire to speak and learn good english the reason for the extinction of those languages.

I think been bundle up together with other small tribes, they had to adopt a language; still indigenous for better and effective communication -- hausa.
And overtime, it became a language for mixed tribes. Inter-tribal marriage did not help matters too.

And sometimes these languages are difficult and to speak or learn especially if you did not grow up learning it, hence it can't stand the test of time.

Also, Most Afro-Asiatic(which are most of the languages listed up there) are poorly described and there is
virtually no literature written in them or about them.

Almost a quarter of them are
spoken by communities of 5000
people or less, and a large
percentage is spoken by just a
handful of people, while some are
already extinct.
So its no wonder.

what a write up!! Highly impressed. Just checked your profile to see if it is an elderly or mature lady but wow you look 20s. Just keep it, at least we got people with sense and articulation

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Dis-integration is Nigeria's hope of survival.. Nigeria needs to dis-integrate in order to develop.

How
How would one know if he or her hears any of those missing languages when all we're exposed to is English, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba.

*If u ask me, na who I go ask*
Back on my system: #findingNimo

sirjohnson: This was what happened to the Argentinians and Mexicans....They speak only Spanish...Their original indigenous languages are gone with the wind.

Not exactly.

Among the immigrants...some Welsh Argentines still speak Welsh, and some Anglo-Argentines still speak English.

And indigenous languages like Aymara and Quecha are still spoken.

Mexico....I believe Aztec and Mayan may still be spoken...alongside other languages.

Parents should endeavour to teach their children and wards their dialects.
These languages can also be written in book form.

GodMode: Dis-integration is Nigeria's hope of survival.. Nigeria needs to dis-integrate to develop.

Into how many countries? 250?

Giftedgreen:
No doubt, English Language is a unifying language in most Commonwealth countries especially Nigeria where over 500 indigenous languages are spoken. But the pace at which these indigenous languages are losing out to the English language is alarming.

A recent UNESCO research shows that on the average, 25 percent of children below 11 years are unable to speak their parents’ indigenous language in Nigeria, and if the trend is not checked, the research notes that Nigerian languages will be in extinction in two to three generations, that is in 50 to 75 years time

Currently Nigeria has about 16 endangered languages and 10 extinct languages that can be accounted for.

I think there's nothing to be done to them.
Ko l'ebo, ko l'etutu!
Last Bullet
Change is a constant thing in life.
Its time for those languages to pack way.
One ll feel they should be preserved but they v little chance.

Well tell that to some of my people who don`t know the road to their village/hometown

bushdoc9919:

Into how many countries? 250?

As many as possible. The minorities need their own country.

GodMode:

As many as possible. The minorities need their own country.

u clowning hah

Nigerians speak your indigenous languages , teach your children I was a victim of such , I learn how to speak my language at age nine by fire by force when my grandma scold my parents for not teaching us , this languages are our own let's cherish it ,
Enough of us borrowing culture of other people

okay

dejust: Make them part of our primary and secondary school curriculum.

They are already there... They need to teach with the language. For instance, schools in SW should teach in yoruba.
Schools in SE should teach in the native language
The north too should do the same.

But this would mean foreigners and non-indigenes must learn the language before been able to be a teacher.

People would say its tribalism not knowing that its pure common sense.

GodMode:

As many as possible. The minorities need their own country.

And the big tribes will promptly plunder the small tribes.

Then you would wish for the contraption called Nigeria.

Yepa, I'm guilty.

Hmmm I know the way to my village sha.

The gradual waning away of our indigenious dialect and language should be highly blamed on our families not on the government,since there is no ban on any dialect or language. In my land and culture particularily igbo,my people believe that English is the best langauge to teach to their kids. I was shocked when a friend of my was telling me he will teach his children english while growing up then they will learn igbo in the streetz,I asked him this era that children don't experience the street plays we did back then,how can they learn it when locked up in the house? he didn't answer. Well what am saying we can still salvage this issue if we go back to the roots and teach our kids our indigenious language and let the learn english in the school,even if they learn the english at home,when they write waec or neco they still fail so what's the use? Let's use our head.

bushdoc9919:

And the big tribes will promptly plunder the small tribes.

Then you would wish for the contraption called Nigeria.

That won't happen.

GodMode:

That won't happen.

That is what you think.Unfortunately, history and reality tell me otherwise.

Nigeria will improve once you and your Hausa friends go home and work on education and innovation to solve your local problems.

Instead of fighting over oil.

My 2 cents.

ababanwoke: The gradual waning away of our indigenious dialect and language should be highly blamed on our families not on the government,since there is no ban on any dialect or language. In my land and culture particularily igbo,my people believe that English is the best langauge to teach to their kids. I was shocked when a friend of my was telling me he will teach his children english while growing up then they will learn igbo in the streetz,I asked him this era that children don't experience the street plays we did back then,how can they learn it when locked up in the house? he didn't answer. Well what am saying we can still salvage this issue if we go back to the roots and teach our kids our indigenious language and let the learn english in the school,even if they learn the english at home,when they write waec or neco they still fail so what's the use? Let's use our head.

True, it begins at home.. while some were lucky to learn it from the streets... But govt is to be blamed. If they teach with the indigenous languages.. This question wouldn't come up.

bushdoc9919:

That is what you think.Unfortunately, history and reality tell me otherwise.

Nigeria will improve once you and your Hausa friends go home and work on education and innovation to solve your local problems.

Instead of fighting over oil.

My 2 cents.

Your tribalist nature is blocking your thinking. I mean to dis-integrate mutually.

Like what scotland recently tried and voted against.

Well according 2 d op languages r going extinct but 4 me adebayo I don't know wat d Bleep speaking yoruba has given 2 pple who speak it

Cos an english/american who speaks english knows dat he his bin catered 4
- he culd go 2 any sch in america/england n pay wen he gets a gud job
- as long as u can communicate in english properly a job is guaranteed
- do u tink if u get 2 meet obasanjo 2day n communicate in his dialect in time of distress he wuld help u I bet u he wouldn't lift a finger

So can d same be said of speaking yoruba 2 an md/ceo of ur proposed work even wen u feel is of yoruba origin cos I'm part of d pple who don't undastand yoruba who also grew up in aj city whr pidgin is d official language n believe me u I hv frndz 4 all six geo political zone we shared gud n bad times 2geda shout out 2 dem all adamu(pele),tega(iron),ifeanyi(womanwrapper),imabong(aba-dieh),tohib(toy)n me(eyin) cos used 2 have shine my teeth.

GodMode:

That won't happen.

well, ask how many nations the jews sacked to have the ancient land of milk and honey. where are those nations and tongues. fact is, if it expires, it expires. in all their glories, where do you hear babylonian, sumerian and other tongues from the advanced civilisations of the past now

spotit: well, ask how many nations the jews sacked to have the ancient land of milk and honey. where are those nations and tongues. fact is, if it expires, it expires. in all their glories, where do you hear babylonian, sumerian and other tongues from the advanced civilisations of the past now

All those countries still exist but under a different name.

When money get involved, they will live.

GodMode:

All those countries still exist but under a different name.

under different names and different languages and different identities and ethnic religions...ur argument is pointless. they've simply evolved. man, know the son of who you are. it doesn't matter where you're born or the language u finally find yourself speaking

We should not be ashamed of speaking our mother tongue be it Idoma, Tiv, Ibibio, Efik,
Urhobo, Itsekiri, Izion, ...etc.

To avoid your language from going extinct, teach your future generation the language.
If you do not understand your mother tongue, make every effort to it

I am Igbo and am very proud of my language.
I can write and speak the language fluently and currently passing it over to my kids .

How about you?

Wait ooo, if these languages are extict, how do you know they were ever spoken?


One Nigerian language I know would be the last to go extinct in the country is Hausa. The number of people who speak Hausa is surely the largest in the country when we are talking of indigenous languages.

Lilimax: We should not be ashamed of speaking our mother tongue be it Idoma, Tiv, Ibibio, Efik,
Urhobo, Itsekiri, Izion, ...etc.

To avoid your language from going extinct, teach your future generation the language.

I am Igbo and am very proud of my language.
I can write and speak the language fluently and currently passing it over to my kids .

How about you?

oh really? queen okoye si m juo gi...i nwere otuocha?

This is simple. The people moved on from their old native languages to another. Most of those languages situated in the North never went extinct per say. They started speaking Hausa as their Language. Not all languages stand the test of time as case as those mentioned above.