macof:

See foolish Jewish slave. I should leave my language and culture for Jesus, because he left his own language to learn Yoruba abi?

Wat u are saying is for us to learn the language of God's chosen people- Hebrew?

booqee: what about this language of fagafigifogofefe.. Blah blah blah. I think its called enor. Our generation don't know it. Dat one too go disappear

E nor go fit ever disappear

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

EBK2:

I have not recommended Hebrew or any language for that matter, unless you didnt read my remarks properly.

Also, there is not need for you to call me a Jewish slave. That is a bit harsh!

Nimen:

i hate ppl like you, you think you know something when you don't, comot your smelling self from my front

GeneralShepherd:

Have you seen in your words, 'while' some parents insist on communicating with their kids in English?!

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

new maonza:
I strongly believe that the adoption of a foreign religion is the begining of this language crisis, the white men gave us Christ an colonized us and every body sees speaking english as being civilised.........The arabs were not dat successful,had they been,the bulk of us would be speaking arabic.... The Chinese are now perfecting how 2 sell Buddhism to the black world,,probably Mandarin is the universal language of the future...........

yousee:

Yea, it can only evolve into ENGLISH!

Omila007:

When them say igbo get sense it's sounds like rocket science.
There movies are in English so they can sell it to everybody in the country.
Include your dumbskull.

Afam4eva:
So, what were you trying to say with your comment? What language are you recommending that we throw away our language for?

Segeggs: Yoruba language is the best in africa.

MamiWata:

Leaving our languages behind has nothing to do with being "civilized."

macof:

Dude I know cubans who recite odu ifa in Yoruba language

there is this Music group from Sierra Leone who adds a lot of Yoruba lyrics

I've never been sure of Jamaica but Cuba speaks Yoruba as a conversional language. And Yoruba religion is also practiced in properly in Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago, Ifa is best recited in Yoruba there. And many come to learn Yoruba language in Nigeria

Catholicism is the country's predominant faith. Brazil has the world's largest Catholic population. According to the 2000 Demographic Census (the PNAD survey does not inquire about religion), 73.57% of the population followed Catholicism; 15.41% Protestantism; 1.33% Kardecist spiritism; 1.22% other Christian denominations; 0.31% Afro-Brazilian religions; 0.13% Buddhism; 0.05% Judaism; 0.02% Islam; 0.01% Amerindian religions; 0.59% other religions, undeclared or undetermined; while 7.35% have no religion.

Languages
The official language of Cuba is Spanish and the
vast majority of Cubans speak it. Spanish as spoken
in Cuba is known as Cuban Spanish and is a form of
Caribbean Spanish. Lucumi, a dialect of the West
African language Yoruba, is also used as a liturgical
language by practitioners of Santería. Haitian Creole is
the second largest language in Cuba, and is spoken
by Haitian immigrants and their descendants.
Other languages spoken by immigrants include
Catalan and Corsican.

Religion:
In 2010, the religious affiliation of the country was estimated by the Pew Forum to be 59.2 percent Christian (mostly Roman Catholic), 23.0 percent unaffiliated, 17.4 percent folk religion (such as santería), and the remaining 0.4 percent consisting of other religions.
Cuba is officially a secular state. Religious freedom
increased through the 1980s, with the government finally amending the constitution in 1992 to drop the state's characterization as atheistic.
Roman Catholicism is the largest religion, with its
origins rooted in Spanish colonization. Despite less
than half of the population identifying as Catholics
in 2006, it nonetheless remains the dominant faith.

Afam4eva:
You're wrong. Why don't you tell me why most International media outfits have Hausa as one of their broadcast language but not Yoruba or Igbo. Don't push it. Hausa is more widely spoken and more widely recognized.

macof:

Dude Imac has Yoruba keyboard format, wikipedia has hundreds of pages in Yoruba option. Google can be viewed in Yoruba

wickyyolo:

Things change. Always expect that change. I want to marry a yoruba girl and my children will speak only english and other international languages. I want to raise world class citizens.

bigfrancis21: LOL. I'm currently at a restaurant now and just across my table is this Lebanese man who's speaking fluent Igbo with his Igbo male friends here. Lol.

bigfrancis21:

You do realize the language translators for the Yoruba pages are Yorubas right?

Also, how many Yorubas while on the internet would rather ignore the English articles and read the Yoruba articles?

And you do realize that many Yorubas are educated such that when presented with two articles in English and Yoruba, many would prefer to read the English article? Same with other educated Nigerians from other tribes?

jess5:

And because the Igbos love their language and make movies in English, they've been able to create an industry that every Nigerian can participate in. It doesn't matter whether they are Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa or Ijaw.

Aa a result, Nollywood movies were able to go global and help a Yoruba actress like Omotola to be recognised as one of the most influential personalities of TIMES 2013 award.

yousee:

Yea, it can only evolve into ENGLISH!

booqee: i agree with you

EBK2:
people like you will waste their time trying to get their kids to learn how to speak Yoruba/Hausa/Ibo/etc. When they grow, they wont even be bothered.

What I am trying to say is that priority should be to speak a language that helps you fufil your potential. I am Ibo but speaking Igbo language is the least of my priority and that will apply to what i get my children to speak. I will focus on getting them to speak a language that prepares them for the future (unless they want to contest for local govenment election which i doubt will ever happen lol).

There is a story I would have love to tell your to educate you but because you abused me, i wont bother

Omila007:

When them say igbo get sense it's sounds like rocket science.
There movies are in English so they can sell it to everybody in the country.
Include your dumbskull.