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Alexis11:
Lol......... Please don't loud it.



Make Warri and Benin guys no hear you

leave am make he dey jones

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SUPOL:
Igbo will be next if care is not taken

Keep having negative dreams about igbos and don't ever wake up and get a life.

mazimee:


That is not possible, you don't know what you are talking about.

Police in Igbo means "ndi uwe ojii". Soon police will stop putting on black uniform and police will be police will be "polishi" in Igbo. And please what is "computer" in Igbo language?

How will usem akwa ibom fade, when i am proud to scream in Akwa Ibom even in UN council of state meeting

herich:
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Keep having negative dreams about igbos and don't ever wake up and get a life.

. [color=#990000]what is "phone" in Igbo?

SUPOL:
Police in Igbo means "ndi uwe ojii". Soon police will stop putting on black uniform and police will be police will be "polishi" in Igbo. And please what is "computer" in Igbo language?

Igwe omeihinile or Komputa

SUPOL:
Igbo will be next if care is not taken

Actually experts have already put a timescale on the extinction of the igbo language.

SUPOL:
. what is "phone" in Igbo?

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It is called, ekwe nti.
Note that, just like English words are advancing, same happens to other languages.

mazimee:


Igwe omeihinile or Komputa

na lie, u just dey try describe am. This language has to be original

herich:
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It is called, ekwe nti.
Note that, just like English words are advancing, same happens to other languages.

Good

SUPOL:
na lie, u just dey try describe am. This language has to be original

Look at this one You asked me a question and I answered it. What makes it a lie? Kowaciate

Go and tell a French man that Computer is not Ordinateur in french or the Spanish that Computer is not Computadora in Spain lets see if you speak the language better than the owners.

SUPOL:
Igbo will be next if care is not taken

English is rapidly taking it over. The adults hardly speak without injecting English words. While most of the younger ones don't even speak it at all. Something must be done to stop this ugly trend. They're not the only victims of this negligence. Almost all the ethnic groups are affected.

Ibiobio mother tongue can never go extinct

See educated illiterates celebrating the demise of some languages. The beauty of any place is it's culture and language. Nigeria is truly full of illiterates who think they educated. Chai, It can't be well for Naija at this rate
It can never be well with this crop of youths. The past have failed the present and the present are gearing up to dumben the future. No desire to learn, no desire to do personal research they expect people to provide proof of points, they see a variant in nature they scream superstitious beliefs, they say God is great at a video of a woman gave birth to live snake. They replaced common sense with Daddy GO/Alfa/Imam. Shame indeed it is a shame.

I couldn't notice their extinction, let alone knew if they ever existed..
Check my signature

Basa Language is still being spoken in some parts of Kogi...

@GoodMuyis

This is very scary!
Most of the non-housa languages in the north will go extinct withing the next 100 years. The reason is that they have so many small ethnic groups that the probability of a Tangale man marrying a woman from Tangale is low. Hausa is a common language, so when a Berom man marries a Gbagi woman, they speak Hausa to themselves and their children. The children grow up neither speaking Gwari nor Berom.

For the Ibos , Ijaws & Yorubas, their children speak English when playing with each other. The vocabularies are dying instead of growing.

The painful thin is that in some families, their children's first language is English (with heavy Nigerian Accent). Neither Briton nor Yoruba SMH.

Our so called elders are also myopic as there is no deliberate action to enlarge the language.

For instance, what is the local word for
Car Steering
Head Light

Microscope
Rocket
Fluorescent Light

Amoeba
Virus
Plasmodium

Water Vapour
Antenna
Wire Cable. etc etc

Not to talk of disappearing words

For the Yorubas:
Eree (Beans)
Na'ro (Stand Up)
etc

Northern mother tongue that has gone extinct

SUPOL:
Igbo will be next if care is not taken

Not possible because some institutions like the Catholic Church in southeast use igbo language.
90% more than any language

Apoi language been spoken by certain group of people living somewhere between ijaw and ikale people of Ondo State. They have population close to about 150,000 but in the quest to be politically relevant, they have since the late eighteens adopted ikale language.

Pavore9:


Very possible! How many of us born and raised outside igboland speak igbo.? In many igbo homes outside the east, where even both parents are igbos how many communicate in igbo language to their children? You need to listen to BBC"s documentary titled FORGETTING IGBO to have a grasp of the issue.

talking out of ignorance. What about the milkions of kids in igboland who cant even speak english? They only talk in igbo. That will cover for the lost ones who dont speak igbo. It is not possible for igbo to be extinct.

SUPOL:
Igbo will be next if care is not taken

You mean igbos will become mallams

Mallam Kanu

Mallam okorocha

Mallam Uche

SUPOL:
Igbo will be next if care is not taken

I doubt though.

Efut language of Cameroon Was spoken in Some part of Calabar went extinct as efik is widely spoken now even Qua Language In Calabar is beginning to extinct as new generation prefer speaking efik

hi everyone am new here hope am welcomed

mu2sa2:
Actually experts have already put a timescale on the extinction of the igbo language.

Do you have a link to back your claim? If yes, I want to see it ASAP pls...If Not then...

What happened or is happening in the north is very similar to what happened in what is today known as Sudan. In Sudan's case, with the entrance of the Arab-speaking tribes into the region,Arabic gradually replaced other languages in the region to the extent that Arabic has become the official language of Sudan. The region called Darfur,for instance,which was the home of the Fur-speaking people has become almost totally arabized to the extent that many of the tribes there have lost their original tongues. The dominant tongue effect is what I call it. More languages to go soon.

SUPOL:
Igbo will be next if care is not taken

You are right. So many Igbos leave outside SE region and are good at adopting the language/ traditions of that area.
I see people on this forum saying "it's not possible for igbo to be extinct".

How many of them can read igbo Bible?
How many of them select igbo IVR (igbo option when speaking to customer care of Banks, Telecom's, sales platforms like Julia etc)?
How many igbos, working as customer care agents can confidently converse with a customer in igbo? Meanwhile, same person will speak with an hausa or Yoruba customer in their language.

How many igbo living in where ever location esp outside SE region understand igbo proverbs or knows at least 10 proverbs?
How many igbos can correctly translate an English statement to igbo?

Those who lost their language probably didn't see it coming.

Igbo must watch it.

Muzanga:
talking out of ignorance. What about the milkions of kids in igboland who cant even speak english? They only talk in igbo. That will cover for the lost ones who dont speak igbo. It is not possible for igbo to be extinct.

A good number of those kids in igboland now are likely to migrate to other parts in adulthood, the question is will they transmit the language when raising their children there?

I speak igbo fluently despite being born and raised in Lagos because my parents made deliberate effort towards it.

I got to work for some years in rural communities in Enugu and Anambra , I did see how disconnected a lot of kids who were brought home for the Christmas and New Year celebrations were. Why should grandparents struggle to communicate with their children?