bi0nics:


I thought that was Mandarin?

Stupedinluv:
I am so glad your post is on fp!

Nnaabros:


calm down!! The way you carry issues very far self. Its quite natural for a person to imbibe the language and culture of the environment he/she grows up in. Doesn't mean his native language is dying. Igbo is still the very much alive. Every child born and bred in igboland speaks fluent Igbo. And I know many born and raised outside Igboland under strict Igbo parents who speak their native tongue just as well.

Igbos are naturally adventurous and mobile and many raise children outside Igboland, who naturally grow up with knowledge of the local language and a smattering of their own native tongues learnt either from their parents or by their own efforts. The result is that many Igbo's are multilingual in Nigerian languages. Infact, you're most likely to find people who can speak virtually the three major languages in Nigeria ONLY AMONG THE IGBOS

cstr55:

Idiotts that is what they are all.
When you come to europe and America and see how half igbo kids are actually striving to learn the igbo language- a language that they will most likely never need or use, then you will realize how pathetically slow and short-sighted igbo parents and states in Nigeria actually are.
Dumb fuccks.

WINNERMENTALITY:


Its actually inferiority complex because to them seeing kids from Lagos speaking english fluently, they always have that believe that somehow those children are intelligent. But you know later life it become apparent but most of them can see beyond that.

The igbo society is not doing anything about that and its now turning to a norm.

cstr55:

Madarin actually is, but that is because china is big.
But English is generally regarded because of its spread.

Ishilove:
It's not Igbo o. It is Igbira and my native name is Oiza

cstr55:

The highlighted is one of the major reasons why the igbo language is dying.
The women are the custodians of the culture everywhere and when the young women are lost enmass to other strange cultures, it can be very dangerous. We are going to see the effect of all these inter-tribal marriages in the next 50 years.
I love inter-tribal marriage, but not at the expense of my beautiful igbo language and culture.

cstr55:

na dem sabi.
My kids(when i decide to have them) ain't coming anywhere near that country anyway.
The language will live on in my kids and that is enough for me.

Nnaabros:
Infact, you're most likely to find people who can speak virtually the three major languages in Nigeria ONLY AMONG THE IGBOS

cstr55:

The UN disagrees with you, bros. And they have valid reasons for their stand, you don't.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/155570-igbos-urged-save-language-extinction.html
I don't think like an average african. My world-views are far-sighted. That is why it may seem strange to you.

cstr55:
.But the language is gradually been eroded in the homeland.
The schools now see speaking igbo language as a sign of unsophistication and illiteracy, and kids are punished for it. That can never happen in any European country including czech republic. And most European countries, btw, don't speak English as a first language in their schools which is where the next generation is bred.
I know it is a problem of Nigerians to see the big picture, but trust me, it is already happening. The igbo language is dying.

Emperormartin:
At least this generation can start the revolution of speaking local languages especially at home.
The generation before us as we can see failed wolfly!!!

musicwriter:


Hi. Happy new year!

Ishilove:

It's not Igbo o. It is Igbira and my native name is Oiza

Ishilove:

It's not Igbo o. It is Igbira and my native name is Oiza

laudate:


Very untrue!! There are polyglots in almost every ethnic group in Nigeria who can speak all the 3 major languages fluently, including some minor ones too! My grandfather's brother was one of them, and he could speak not just Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, but also Fulfude, Igala and Esan. Yet he did not even hail from any of those tribes!!

Ishilove:

It's not Igbo o. It is Igbira and my native name is Oiza

opal4real:
Most likely is the catch there and I subscribe to this due to the igbos migrant style.
A typical igbo will grow in Aba, serves his uncle in Benin then another cousin in Kaduna and finally settles into imports in Lagos. They strive to master d local language although their heavy accent always give them away.

Nnaabros:
Infact, you're most likely to find people who can speak virtually the three major languages in Nigeria ONLY AMONG THE IGBOS

laudate:


Please go back and read the entire post Nnaabros made, to which I responded. I had to edit it, because it was rather long, just to highlight the part that I felt was rather incorrect.

This is part of what he said:


No one denies that the Igbo are highly mobile or migratory in nature. But to say that it is 'most likely' that you can find people who speak the 3 major languages ONLY among the Igbo is highly debatable.

Northerners are also migrants, and a lot of people across the nation are familiar with the 'mai-guard', or the 'suya man' who is most likely to be a northerner. So why does he feel that only those who can speak the 3 major languages are to be found ONLY among the Igbo? People from other ethnic tribes also migrate to different places, but maybe not in the large numbers that the Igbo do. I know a friend who picked up the Ibibio language from his neighbours, who lived next door to him in Lagos. Today, he is a fluent speaker of that language, even though he is not a native of their town.

So did Nnabros conduct a survey or something, before he made his comments? Isn't his response a sweeping generalisation?

carmag:
you forgot that northern migrants usually settles at a specific location where only housa language are spoken and those of them who must hawk their businesses or a job as a gate man struggles to speak pigeon English not to talk of language of their host

laudate:


Maybe, but I have also met some of these northerners who are fluent in all the 3 major languages. For Nnabros to claim that ONLY among the Igbo, would you find people who are fluent in all 3 major languages, is what I disagree with! There are polyglots in every ethnic group, not just among the Igbo.

carmag:
if you look at it this way, Igbo biz man residing in the North birthed his kids over there so at the maturity of those kids they must have understood both Igbo and housa languages by the time they arrive Lagos either for schooling or buz purposes they would as well grasp some Yoruba language

this picture is just one scenario out of many...so he may be right

laudate:


He is generalising. Polyglots exist among every ethnic group.

carmag:
No section has the monopoly of polyglots but exposure is another determine factors

if someone from the East spend his entire life in the East he wouldn't have the need to study a foreign language

there is a Yoruba boy that practiced and established a mechanic work shop in Anambra State precisely but he later traveled abroad and luckily to him he does not have a tribal mark which would indicate he is not an Igbo because he speaks Igbo fluently and can mention some remote villages in his host community

As I'm telling you he is being favoured amongst Igbo communities and he serves as a bridge btw the two tribes

conclusion ! if he didn't live in the east he wouldn't have had the need to speak Igbo language