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Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Amagmilton(m): 9:41am On Feb 12, 2015 |
scholes0:...I agree with d figures in that table but u failed to use ur common sense to obtain d total no. Of igbos in Nigeria, u failed to understand that d population was obtained from d states of residence and not state of origin, yorubas including lagos, kwara nd kogi is abt 20m while igbo is abt 16m..if u minus d igbos in lagos. & ibadan alone 4rm dt yoruba population nd add it to 16m u knw wat it will result..then u now add igbos in Delta nd Rivers as kwara nd kogi was added to dt of yoruba...finally u will agree with me that igbos will be over 24m while Yorubas will be reduced to abt 17m.. 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Hayurdayle(m): 10:38am On Feb 12, 2015 |
It is reported that the North (Hausa, Fulani and Kanuri) make up 33% of Nigeria's population while the South West (Yoruba) accounts for 21%, the East (Igbo) is 18%, the South-South (Ijaw and Ibibio) is 13.5% and the Plateau Region (Tivs) is 2.5%. source:http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/babsajayi/122305.html |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Flawlessangel(m): 10:51am On Feb 12, 2015 |
saxywale:one thing i noticed is, igbo's are naturally gifted in learning tongues of other languages.....i know so many igbos that cud speak yoruba, hausa, ibibio etc.....so its not just a yoruba thing |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Flawlessangel(m): 10:55am On Feb 12, 2015 |
splashbaby:yoruba the largest ethnic group in benin and togo? Dude ar u kiddin me.....av made my research and nowhere was this ever stated.....so where did u get this facts 4rm Or did ur grandfather tell u dis? |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Flawlessangel(m): 10:58am On Feb 12, 2015 |
zendy:correct!! |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by vonn(f): 11:04am On Feb 12, 2015 |
adeitoro:Which is so annoying.... Most Igbos feel inferior with their native language. That's why you see some of them trying to 'phonerise' the language. I give hand to my aunt. Her kids have been in africa just once, but they speak and understand wella. Speaking your native language at home wouldn't make you bad in english if you put your effort. I can blow and write Igbo wella, I still get A for English. 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Flawlessangel(m): 11:09am On Feb 12, 2015 |
ONE THING ABOUT IGBO PEOPLE IS THEY ARE QUICK IN LEARNING THE LANGUAGES OF OTHER PEOPLE.....MOST IGBOS IN LAGOS CAN SPEAK YORUBA..THE ONES IN D NORTH CAN SPEAK HAUSA AND ALL DAT...BUT U CUD BARELY HEAR A YORUBA MAN SPEAKING ANY OTHER LANGUAGE APART 4RM THEIRS, ITS LIKE THE YORUBA BRAIN SHUTS DOWN WHEN IT COMES 2 LEARNING OTHER LANGUAGES.......SO IGBOS ARE MORE VERSATILE WITH LANGUAGES THAN ANY OTHER TRIBE IN NAIJA............just saying. 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by vanen2: 11:35am On Feb 12, 2015 |
I'm Tiv but my location is not mentioned. Pls include NAIRALAND as my location |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by semitunde: 12:28pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
bigfrancis21: Says who? The first set of population figures were even deemed to be flawed in favour of the north politically. The census was conducted by our colonial masters. Beyond all this,let's use logic? If a poll is taken asking Nigerians to list ALL the languages they speak. You think Igbo will be high up there? Or has the topic for this thread changed? |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by semitunde: 12:33pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
Flawlessangel: You need to do that research again. Benin republic and Togo are mostly Yoruba. 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by iamdsam: 12:39pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
Urhobo. My language going through extinction gradually. In the next 100, many minor languages in Nigeria would have gone extinct. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Hanibal(m): 12:39pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
Did I hear u say Ijaw language is spoken as a native language in Ikole Ekiti?... oga dat one na lie o |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Nobody: 12:41pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
semitunde: This 'mostly Yoruba' thing is extremely funny, especially with reference to Togo where the Yoruba fraction of the population is so small they are almost invisible. Togolese and Beninois Yoruba altogether are only about 300,000 people. Meanwhile, the combined population of Benin and Togo is some 17 million. Do not take my word for it. Look it up. 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Hanibal(m): 12:45pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
McLuhan:Now what is this white man's slave saying? |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by semitunde: 12:51pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
Radoillo: You need to understand that I wasn't referring to spoken language now. And while I don't know where you got those figures from; I can tell you "first hand" that most of the population from Benin and Togo are Yoruba or can speak the language or variants (Egun) of the language. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by zendy: 2:15pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
Flawlessangel: One of the reasons why you can see Igbos speaking Hausa and Yoruba but almost never you see vice-versa is because Igbo is the hardest to learn amongst the 3 main languages. Most Yorubas only know "kedu" in Igbo while most Hausas don't know any Igbo. I know Hausas who have been selling ciggertte and Suya in Enugu for years but don't know a single word in Igbo! |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by bigfrancis21: 3:43pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
scholes0: The very same CIA that quotes Yoruba to be 21%...isn't that equally ridiculous?? The very same CIA factbook that draws their figures from so-called Nigeria's 'official' population census?? |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by bigfrancis21: 3:54pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
semitunde: Igbo may not likely make the list in the sense of having a large number of second language speakers to add to its list of native speakers but when it comes to the highest number of native speakers of a Nigerian language, Igbo language might top the list if an official census proves that they have the largest population of all 3 major ethnic groups in Nigeria. In the last census by Obasanjo, why did he 'smartly' omit 'ethnicity' in the census list but rather substituted it for 'state of residence' knowing full well that there are mass numbers of Igbos residing outside south east in other states of Nigeria, thus swelling the population figures of non-south-eastern states? And at the end of the exercise, population figures were summed up region for region thus placing SW and the North at higher figures, of which about 30% are Igbos? How can you explain that? When Obasanjo was asked why 'ethnicity' was removed, he replied that the population figures would be controversial. Controversial? So he knew very well what he was doing? Even here in US, race is not omitted but included on census forms, to account for the racial make-up of Americans. Now, this is accountability which every country should strive for. When will Nigeria ever conduct things accurately and fairly for once in its existence? Or you think the leaders up there don't know the truth? For the past 40 years the Igbo have been lied to and subjugated to number 3 position in Nigeria, such that many Igbo people even believe that they are number 3. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by bigfrancis21: 4:01pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
semitunde: Main reason being that they found the people from the east too uppity, smart and aggressive for their liking. The masters knew they had to leave but they wanted to be still able to control Nigeria remotely from a distance. They Yoruba were educated and refined enough and they weren't an option to align with. They found the northerners naive and quite easier to control than the Igbo who would challenge and argue with them on basic governmental issues, thus they preferred the Northerners. To achieve their strategy, they would have to give the Northerners a dominating position and one easy way of doing that was exaggerating their population figure by a wide margin to give them the dominant position, and also making them believe that Nigeria's power is a birth right. A colonial master a few years ago confessed to this manipulative ploy by the colonial masters. Till today, Nigerians still believe that Northerners are the majority. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by bigfrancis21: 4:17pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
semitunde: Quit spreading lies and false information purportedly. Do you think your claims cannot be verified by one click of google? Let us get our facts straight: Benin: The major languages of nearby Benin republic are Fon and Adja with a combined total of 54%. Yoruba comes third with a figure of 12.3%. This is coming from the very same CIA factbook you quoted. Thanks to you inadvertent exposure. Now the population of Benin is 10.32 million, 12.3% gives 1.27 million Yoruba language speakers. Add that figure to about 21 - 24 million Yoruba language speakers in Nigeria (SW + Kogi E.T.C) and you will have about approximately 25 million. Togo: it has been falsely spread on nairaland that 'Yoruba is a major language in Togo', with Adebayor Emmanuel of Arsenal often quoted as a 'Togolese Yoruba'. Yoruba language as we know it is not an official nor recognized language in Togo and has never been, and Emmanuel Adebayor's parents are Yorubas from Nigeria living in Togo who visit Nigeria regularly. 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by splashbaby(m): 4:18pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
asha80:Hausa community in Igbo land do not mingle with the locals. They don't inter-marry. They even barely speak the language. ... I haven't seen any Ibos married to Hausas unlike in Yoruba land where they inter marry and live like one family. Igbos don't accommodate other tribes like the love they show to them.... That's the truth...deal with it. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by bigfrancis21: 4:23pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
scholes0: The very same census figues you quote which we all know were crooked up to favour the north as dominating? You call that reliable because it favours you? How is that even possible, were Enugu and Abia states in existence then? Where are the population figures of Ebonyi state, Delta Igbo, Rivers Igbo, Benue Igbo,e.t.c? 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by semitunde: 4:29pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
bigfrancis21: You have brought up issues that are beyond this thread and need to be discussed more expansively. Maybe you can open another thread for that? Its nice that you agree that the Igbo languge is by far not the most widely spoken, we have to be less emotional sometimes. Let's rest that there... I will.make this as short as possible. You have no facts to butress your point that igbos make up 30% of Lagosians. Let's say the Yoruba are 50%, are tiu saying that 20% make up the other ethnic groups? Do you know how many we have in Nigeria? Let's move on... You mentioned that ethnicity was not included in the last census...Its wasn't only ndigbo that was dissapointed, some other groups too, like Yoruba for instance. But the disappointment was more because guys felt that inclusion, (with religion and residence) would show the true nature of the composition in northern Nigeria. Many prominent northerners didn't want that... But let me tell you bro, such an inclusions might not be an advantage for igbos too. Apart from the oppurtunity of debunking the 30% population mantra, Ethnicity, religion and residence; would have shown the number of Igbo in other areas, their location, occupation, etc. These info can be used for taxation by a govt like Lagos. Trust me the Lagos state is working at achieving this through several benign means. Not necessarily because of Igbo only though. In summary, if we have an accurate census where all these indices are used, we would be well on our way to better planing our future, and debunking some funny beliefs along the way. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by bigfrancis21: 4:30pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
splashbaby: It is mostly due to religion. Hausas are muslims and Igbos are christians. Most Igbo families find it difficult to marry from another christian sect or church different from theirs how much more from a different religion. The Igbos are very accommodating of other tribes in Igboland. Igbos will never go about destroying shops or business steads of non-Igbo traders in Igboland nor go around on a rampage killing non-Igbos. A thriving Hausa community exists in Owerri (where I spent most of my life in) and many of them speak good Igbo, which they learned in order to boost their business. The area is called Ama Awusa and these Hausas speak good Igbo to you when you pass by there to entice you to patronize them. Another Hausa community thrives along PH-Enugu expressway where they trade successfully. You need to start travelling out to other regions to see things for yourself. 2 Likes |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by semitunde: 4:46pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
bigfrancis21: You won't let this Togo - Benin thing go abi. If someone said: "bigfrancis, do you know that all igbos get their kolanuts directly from western Nigeria, Google it, the facts are there". What will you, as an Igbo man who eats kolanuts for food say? Will you need Google. Its not every info Mr Google has to be the arbitar or shining light. |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by splashbaby(m): 4:48pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
bigfrancis21:I have been to all the 36 state of the federation and lived five years in Agbor, 4 years in Uyo. Served in Owerre and presently living in Minna. You just affirm the truth.. . Religiously, Igbo don't even accommodate their fellow Christian if their are not catholics. This is in-born, how do you expect them to accept the Muslims in their fold especially when they are stranger. Compare that to the Yorubas that will have all members of their family practising different religion. Yoruba usually don't care about who you are what you practice before relating to you. They love to have good people around... Good Igbos trive in Yoruba land because they show them love. 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Fulaman198(m): 5:05pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
EnigmAries: I assume you are Tangale |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Fulaman198(m): 5:06pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
zendy: Until a proper census is done so that people don't lump Hausa and Fulani together, I won't be happy |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Flawlessangel(m): 5:06pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
zendy:dude there's no such thing as hardest language...all languages sound alien to those who dsnt understand it, its until u put ur mind 2 it thats when u understand it.....igbos make it a tradition in learning the languages of whatever states they reside in, thats why they cud speak their language....my mum aint igbo but because she lived in d east for sometime, she cud speak igbo to the extent u wud think she's igbo, its wasnt until i turned 10 years old did i findout dat my mum aint igbo. 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by macof(m): 5:10pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
Bullshiit Op, Yoruba has over 25million native speakers...and is definitely more spoken across West Africa and around the world than Igbo 1 Like |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by asha80(m): 5:32pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
splashbaby:you are now deviating...from saying that other ethnic groups are not in igboland(you had Yoruba in mind) because igbos are not accomodating.. Now on hearing about large Hausa settlements in igbo land you now reverted the hausas there keep to themselves that they do not mix(as if it is only in igboland that they do so)..bigfrancis had let you know that Hausa shops and individuals are not attacked in igboland unlike what happens up north you now diverted to marriage and bigfrancis have giving you the reason of religion....how many Hausa Muslims you know marry Igbo ladies up north?...next thing you now diverted that it is now Igbo Catholics...pls do not give me that talk about yorubas relating with you without caring about where you are from and the likes because from my experience yorubas like relating with you if their is something to gain from you....if you do not know the meaning of accomodating go to the dictionary and find out |
Re: Top 10 Most Spoken Nigerian Languages by Nobody: 6:24pm On Feb 12, 2015 |
Raiders:dose in the north dnt speak pidgin |
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