₦airaland Forum

Onlytruth:
My list:

Abiriba
Anaedo (or Nnewi)
Awka
Ohafia
Igbere
Uratta
Aro
Izzi
Mgbo
Ezaa
Ngwa
Ika
Ndoki
Asa
Etche
Orsu
Onicha (Ado)
Isu
Ehugbo
Ukwuani
Ndoni
Aboh
Ogba
Ikwerre
Nri

experience:
How many sun rays do you recommend?

Gamine:
What are you trying to say?

safariman:
^^^^
It looks so real

Gamine:
Really dumb post

Gamine:
http://www.naijablog.co.uk/2010/09/on-nigerian-languages.html

Gamine:
I don't know where all these Igbo people are coming from with authority on ethnic groups and language
puzzling

Obiagu1:
You're right. Though they are not contiguous with the Yoruba nation, and considering Bonny case, I've taken it off the list.

Outstrip:
I disagree with yout list. Etsako should be a distinct language. There are many dialects of etsako itself. If you think that etsako is in a dialect of the language spoken in Benin then you are wrong o

Gamine:
The Bini's have always held the ruling power therefore it would seem there was a distinct 'Edo'
language, while the others remain as 'dialects'

Becomrich0:
Here are likely country that would be on ourside. i would be back

Africa countries. and I would list other later. I have to go


Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Rep
Chad
Congo
Dem. Rep. Congo (Zaire)
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea Bissau
Guinea
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
[s]Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Reunion
Rwanda
São Tomé and Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zanzibar
Zimbabwe[/s]

Gamine:
''There are less than 70 languages in Nigeria'' and you posted 60.
It's like you don't understand what YOU wrote.

Gamine:
There is a clear difference between 'Distinct' and 'Dialects' from your post. obviously
the Distinct languages are the source of the dialects, thereby making them 'higher'

Gamine:
Why don't you leave the website to do the explanation and stop misleading people.

Gamine:
For example you commented on someone's post that Esan is a dialect (which you decided to ignore)
I've gone to the site, and it bears no resemblance to your post.

Gamine:
As you would have noticed, I'm only concerned about particular languages because
i believe I have more knowledge than you do on them.

Gamine:
If Esan is a dialect, Edo (what you suggest on your list) is a dialect too.

Is the number of people speaking a language (>1million) what qualifies it as a 'distinct' language?
Edo (What the Bini speak) is the most widely spoken of the Edoid, that doesn't place it higher than the others
I really do not like these kind of misleading posts.
How many people in present day Edo state speak this?
My people, do not, they only pick it up because they go to live in the 'city'

Well, What can I expect from Google-Education.

Sigh

B.L: It's either the classification system is wrong or the list is incomplete

Obiagu1:
Ibibio people do not live in Ogoja nor in Abakiliki.

chyz:
Wow so kukele of the "Ukelle people" is a dialect of the igbo language. I learn something new everyday.I just found a recording of the language.The even use the old Aro name for god, "Ukpabi". Check this out:

http://globalrecordings.net/program/C10171


They've really tried hard to separate us

Gamine:
Well you contradict yourself, If Bini speak a dialect of 'Edo', Where does Yekhee for example come from?
Yekhee will be a dialect of Edo too, so what's it doing on the list

Let me clarify for you,

Bini people are in Edo state, they speak Edo which is under a larger group, the Edoid family.

Gamine:
Also, the Edoid group (this is what you suggest is in your list) has way more than 1million speakers

The languages in bold are spoken by 1 million and more and the underlined more than 10 million.

chyz:
Edo is used to describe a people in that region.It is not a language. With in edo state there are the esa, bini, igarra, igbanke,etc. they each speak their own distinct language.

Gamine:
You have to make a clear distinct between Edo as Bini, and Edo state.
You can't put up 'Edo' as a parent language, that's why I said 'Edo' does not exist.
the language the Bini's speak, is under the Edoid group.
If you are listing Edo here, where are the others from the group??

Horus:
Dont allow yourself to be mentally manipulated by the Europeans medias. Is it true that Nigeria and Africa is over crowded and moving towards an unsustainable population level?."No. Absolutely not". Overcrowding can be measured by one method only, that is whether there are too many people to fit in the space available. Population density is calculated by dividing the number of people by area. Population density is usually shown as the number of people per square kilometer.The most densely populated continent area in the world is Europe, yes EUROPE (see GAP News #7, Population Figures), but do Europeans think there are too many people in Europe? Of course not. But did the europeans use the word overpopulation when they talk about the european population?.Of course not. But they believe there are too many African and Asian people in the world. That is not overcrowding that is racism". Why they dont want to use "population control" in Europe when they know that The most densely populated continent area in the world is Europe?.

Over-populated England

Published: 12:01AM BST 06 May 2008

News that England is poised to become the most crowded nation in western Europe will come as little surprise to the millions who already battle their way to work in London and the South East.

Within two years, England will overtake Holland as the most populous major country - and it will get progressively worse.

According to the Office for National Statistics, England's population will rise to 521 people for every square kilometre by 2056, compared with 390 individuals per sq km in 2006.

England is already one of the most densely populated countries in the world, let alone in Europe. It has nearly twice the population density of Germany, four times that of France and 12 times that of the USA.

Inevitably, the South will take the brunt of the increase, placing further strain on housing and transport, which are already almost at breaking point.

The main driver for this increase is immigration, which has also produced higher levels of childbirth. More people are also living to a ripe old age. If current trends continue, then the UK population could rise to 108 million in a lifetime.

Until fairly recently, demographers believed the population would stabilise at around 60 million and then decline. In other words, there was no long-term policy planning for the population we have today, let alone what we now face.

The inevitable consequences are less space, more costly land, smaller but dearer homes, congested roads, packed trains, overburdened hospitals, oversubscribed schools, new towns and pressures on resources.

Since England will remain an attractive destination for many immigrants, who often bring their entrepreneurial dynamism with them, it would help matters if more people moved to other, less crowded parts of Britain.

But we are such a top-heavy nation, with a capital city more dominant than any in Europe, that this is unlikely to happen unless more jobs are created elsewhere in the country.

ola olabiy:
you don't still get it.
the dirt in nigeria has nothing to do with population. only lagos needs some planning in that area (population). and it's not the state's fault. people will always prefer lagos to any other state in nigeria.
reduce nigeria's population by a third, dirt and decay would still be conspicous.
and, to let you know that you don't really understand this concept, china's one-child policy is in place because of concerns over land mass.

there are 3 main reasons why population sometimes becomes an issue. land mass is the main one. i will tell you the other 2 later.
take care.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/3557993/Over-populated-England.html

Gamine:
If you really want to classify languages under your terms, Mr poster
You will find that the whole world really does speak one language.

Gamine:
The 'Edo' language does not exist, please where are the 1million speaking this language??

ola olabiy:
sorry,
how do you go about this your 'slowing down'?
or are you just ladened with emotion about something that does not affect you?
nor your prosperity!

Andre Uweh:
Legbo is a language of spoken in Cross River state not Afikpo. The Legbo people bear Igbo names that are common in Afikpo eg Kanu Agabi. This former minister is Legbo and not Igbo.
My coursemate during my undergraduate days shared a common surname (Agbi) with a lecturer from Cross River state. Yet one is Igbo and the other is not.

ChinenyeN:
Ethno-linguistic groups is a better expression for that list, in my opinion.

Obiagu1:
Is ezeagu not the same guy that was arguing that Nigeria has 250+ languagues and Isoko is not Urhobo. You must be clueless.

Andre Uweh:
Despite great dialectrical variations in Yorubaland, all the dialects are grouped as Yoruba.
But enemy of Ndigbo are very quick to classify some Igbo dialects as separate languages e.g Ika, Ekpeye etc.

asha 80:
i heard that people from ibadan do not understand ekiti?no wcan they all be classified as one language 

Andre Uweh:
@Ezeagu: This is the best classification I have seen so far. Awolowo counted up to 51 languages of Nigeria.
@No. 18, do you mean Egun language spoken in Lagos state and a tiny part of Ogun state?.