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Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by cstr55: 10:12pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/155570-igbos-urged-save-language-extinction.html http://sunnewsonline.com/unesco-and-endangered-igbo-language-1/ https://www.nairaland.com/482648/igbo-language-may-go-extinct |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by cstr55: 10:13pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
bi0nics:Madarin actually is, but that is because china is big. But English is generally regarded because of its spread. |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by musicwriter(m): 10:14pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
Stupedinluv: Hi. Happy new year! |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by cstr55: 10:16pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
Nnaabros: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. 1 Like |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by WINNERMENTALITY: 10:16pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
cstr55: 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 cant see beyond that. The igbo society is not doing anything about that and its now turning to a norm. 1 Like |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by cstr55: 10:19pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
WINNERMENTALITY: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. |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by bi0nics: 10:22pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
cstr55: Oh... |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by Kakamorufu(m): 10:24pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
and i thought igbo do allow their children speak their asusu igbo at home. Thats worst. Same here in yorubaland sef. Most parent forbid speaking yoruba at home. Too bad. 4 Likes |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by laudate: 10:26pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
Ishilove: Oh rea-aa-ally!! Up Middle-Belt! |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by Ugosample(m): 10:31pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
cstr55: That may not be the case all the time, as I know families in which they speak only the language of their father and not much from the other. I see it a lot in Ghana |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by WINNERMENTALITY: 10:32pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
cstr55:Which country are u talking abt |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by laudate: 10:32pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
Nnaabros: 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!! 3 Likes |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by Nobody: 10:33pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
cstr55:Well, I don't need the UN to tell me what to believe or what will happen in the future. Nevertheless, we always need to promote our native languages whether the UN says so or not. Even English, despite its popularity, people still need to learn it before they can speak it properly and accurately. Every language needs to be continuously promoted and taught to preserve them It seems you consider the African world view and way of thinking as inferior. You need to get rid of your inferiority complex, if you're truly an African, and stop letting western world views shape your thinking and stop believing everything they tell you will happen to you in the future. No wonder you quickly believed and swallowed the UNs predictions as the ultimate truth 2 Likes |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by Ugosample(m): 10:46pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
cstr55:Well, the language still cannot die just like that, not even in the nearest future... In Igbo cities Onitsha especially, Igbo rules, 2 Likes |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by musicwriter(m): 10:48pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
Emperormartin: That's very correct!. I'll be starting a TV and or radio programme before or by middle of the year, and part of it would detail how Africans born between 1940-1960 have failed this continent. The older generation certainly would've done better. I mean, since the days of agitation for our independence in the 60s nothing else was done by the immediate succeeding generation to keep advancing our total freedom, and as a result we're still partly in slavery- which is why a situation such as being discussed here arise. And Lord Kwame Nkrumah before he died warned that political freedom is just one of such freedom we need. He warned of new forms of slavery such as neo-colonialism, intellectual slavery, economic slavery. Yet, the immediate generation after him kept mute. 7 Likes 1 Share |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by Nobody: 10:56pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
musicwriter:Same to you writer! |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by Amoto94(m): 11:25pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
Ishilove:It is Ebira and not Igbira. 1 Like |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by lazsnaira(m): 11:28pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
IGBO IS OUR ONLY IDENTITY GUARD IT AS YOU WOULD YOUR LIFE |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by princejayboss: 11:31pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
For me its abominable to ban your kids from speaking Igbo, yeah I could remember that some of our family friends often see our parents as stupid people for allowing us to speak Igbo when the trend was engliah , but the funny part of the event was that the kids that speaks Good English at home was never better than us. The Singapore story was the most foolish story I have heard in my entire adult life... English is not word of science and tech, its not a competitive language ...one tend to ask what English language have done for Singapore? Mu son goes to an English school, speaks Spanish among his peers and speaks Igbo at home.... The only disadvantage is that my son is often confused when you ask him questions. Am proud that he understands Igbo 5 Likes |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by davidif: 12:00am On Jan 15, 2017 |
Fantastic piece. One of the best I've read in nairaland. 1 Like |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by Nobody: 12:54am On Jan 15, 2017 |
Ishilove: My collegues daughters name is Oiza and they are Igarra's from Edo State. Pls kindly differentiate BTW Igbirra,Igarra and Igala. |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by Nobody: 1:01am On Jan 15, 2017 |
laudate: 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. 2 Likes |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by QuietHammer(m): 1:03am On Jan 15, 2017 |
Ishilove:Yene. Avu dashi? |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by laudate: 1:27am On Jan 15, 2017 |
opal4real: 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: Nnaabros: 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? 2 Likes |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by Pharoh: 1:32am On Jan 15, 2017 |
The only way to preserve Igbo language is to switch the language of instruction in schools from English to Igbo. 2 Likes |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by Nobody: 2:15am On Jan 15, 2017 |
laudate: 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 1 Like |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by laudate: 2:18am On Jan 15, 2017 |
carmag: 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. 3 Likes |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by Nobody: 3:02am On Jan 15, 2017 |
laudate: 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've grasp some Yoruba language this picture is just one scenario out of many...so he may be right it's said that travelling is part of Education 1 Like |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by laudate: 3:05am On Jan 15, 2017 |
carmag: He is generalising. Polyglots exist among every ethnic group. 1 Like |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by Nobody: 3:36am On Jan 15, 2017 |
laudate: 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 2 Likes |
Re: How I Was Banned From Speaking Igbo - Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani by laudate: 3:43am On Jan 15, 2017 |
carmag: You have just corroborated what I have been saying. The Yoruba guy learnt Igbo because he lived in Igbo land. I also gave you an example of my friend who learnt Ibibio from his neighbours, while living in Lagos. Are you telling me, there are no other ethnic groups that have citizens who migrate to other parts of Nigeria, and have learnt the language of their hosts? So why would Nnabros generalise by saying ONLY among the Igbo would you find people who can speak the 3 major languages? 3 Likes |
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