Lilimax: Parents should teach their children their native language very early in life.

I am Igbo and I write and speak the language fluently.
I am also making frantic effort to ensure that my children speaks the language too.
So far, they're picking up...

calebo101: What is superior in speaking your local dialect? Is it not same dialect 'your people' would sell you with? Inferiority complex my foot! I better learn french or Chinese that would better my prospect globally.

Segeggs: shut up you this IGBO smoking man, you are not yoruba.



75% of HIT MUSIC in africa contains yoruba language.


Angelique kidjo won 3 grammy awards singing in yoruba and she is from benin republic.

Segeggs: shut up you bloody liar!


Psquare sings in 45% pidgin english, 20% english, 10% igbo, 10% yoruba and 5% jargons.

As for flavour, compare him with 9ice and seem like you are comparing mikel obi and usain bolt in terms of speed cos 9ice rocks while flavour sucks.

Tee-gurlee.:

I know a bit of enor. Mogo lege sogo egonongo. Do u understand dat?

BarryX: Now this statement is rather unwise than wise

Segeggs: in yoruba land, children dont pick yoruba language up, its born with them, even non-yoruba children speak it well too cos we promote it in movies and music.

stevebond007:


as a respectable Yoruba boy I won't abuse you back. I refer to intellect not violence.

1 shortblackboy: I didn't mean civilisation in d sense which u are using it. Meant it in d sense of the genral progression of mankind. Man and society has never been static. Some aspects of culture are done away with while some are borrowed from other cultures. And some are even invented. Language which is an aspect of culture is subject to these changes. Eg d English we speak today is not thesame spoken some 200 yrs ago

Lilimax: ssshhh !
I have a lot of yoruba friends and colleagues.
They are facing the same issue with their children simply because they did not teach them the language early in life.

ochallo:
P.s
Zoque-Ayapaneco, an indigenous Mexican language is considered the most likely to become extinct, because the only two people in the world that speak it fluently, do not talk to each other!

And, it's not because they live in different countries, states or even villages - In fact, Manuel Segovia and Isidro Velazquez, both in their 70's, reside within 500 yards of each other, in the village of Ayapa in the Southern Mexican State of Tabasco. They however, refuse to converse because they simply don't have much in common. Segovia is apparently a little 'brusque' in nature whilst Velazquez is described as 'stoic'.

booqee: i no know enor o. I heard my mum speaking it once to someone. So wats the meaning of what u said??

Segeggs: when something doesnt favour you, you brand it unwise

Segeggs: i repeat, you are not a yoruba boy!

Afam4eva: I don't think Igbo language will go into extinction in the next 50 years like posited though i think among the tripod(Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba), Igbo will probably be the first that will go into extinction if someone drastic is not done and the reasons are obvious. For a lot of Igbos in the 21st century, being formally educated goes hand in hand with not knowing how to speak Igbo. It seems the more educated we get, the more likely we throw away our cultural artifacts and become more English than the English themselves. A society that considers ones ability to speak fluent, unadulterated English as being Intelligent will have a lot of problems sustaining it's indigenous language and it's a shame that the Igbo language is mostyl at the receiving end.

Eze Promoe: None of Nigeria's major languages can go extinct in my opinion. It is like a competition between the three ethnicities to preserve their languages, and save it from going extinct before that of their counterparts.

I foresee in the future (like 100 years to come) the fusion of all languages into each other, maybe then there will be call for a united Nigerian lingo.

Segeggs: keep quiet, liar.

Eze Promoe:
Before either Igbo would be going into extinction, all the minority languages might have gone into extinction.

Lilimax: ssshhh !
I have a lot of yoruba friends and colleagues.
They are facing the same issue with their children simply because they did not teach them the language early in life.

We've determined to teach our little ones their mother tongues.
It is working as they are picking up the language very fast.

macof: Yoruba can never be extinct, it can only evolve

igbsam: Yoruba Language will be very difficult to fade away easily. I went to Benin Republic (cotonou) on a business/official trip. When i got there, the man i went to see could not speak nor understand english but only french language, i could not speak french but only english, yoruba, igbo, okpe and urhobo language fluently. It became difficult for me. while i was there staring at him and waiting for an interpreter he asked to come around, a call came in through my MTN Phone (Roaming) and then i was speaking with the person on the other end in yoruba language, the man stood up, walked to me and spoke to me in yoruba language. I was shocked.

He said to me, they also speak yoruba there in benin republic (this was like 5yrs ago). He told me that 80% of the people living in Benin Republic speak and understand yoruba fluently.

I also got to know that some part of Jaimaca speak yoruba, how true ?

Segeggs: Indians love their language...their movies are in punjabvi language


hausas love their language...their movies are in hausa language


yorubas love their language...their movies are in yoruba language

IGBOs love their language...their movies are in ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

Cluelessness