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aklid:
Hausa, Yoruba and Fulani language they are the Nigerian languages I can understand and can speak
Confidentially…💪🎊

Superstar.

PrinceMajestic:
Urhobo, Hausa and Isoko

Star.

Ilamina:
English and broken English

My sympathies.

Blackdisciple:
I speak and understand Efik, Hausa, ibibio and English I wish to speak Igbo too

Star.

Bahamas95:
I can speak two fluently.

If I add Yoruba it will make it three but my Yoruba isn't that good......So I speak two and half languages.

You be star.

abufadllullah:
Yoruba, Hausa, Igala and Bini

Superstar

Kyase:
For where

1 major language, 3 minor languages and some few small languages?

Na you o!

Sonnobax15:
. Well,you aren't far from the truth..... That has been like a bone in our throats.... the truth is that those of us who were born and bred in Ughelli can't really speak urhobo fluently apart from few families that made it a compulsory thing...... I've alot of friends who can't understand it even tho they are from here too...But that doesn't mean you should write it off so quickly..We have neighboring communities around that constitute ughelli as a town.. Communities such as Afiesere, otovwodo, Ekiugbo and the rest..Those are the communities that speak and understand urhobo well...... Ughelli is just like a town that comprises of different tribes,tho it's an urhobo town...

What a shame only few families have sense.

Senioradvocate:
Anaang
Ibibio
Efik
Igbo
Hausa

Superstar.

Farid24224:
Just Hausa and Fulani...

Want to learn Yoruba though!!

Good.

internationalman:
You feel me!

I currently have a group of adults in my clique who can't speak Edo language despite being born and raised here. One that can speak it very well is so ashamed to speak it in public..

I've yet to see where a group of Yoruba people are gathered and they are speaking English. Only among Edo people this happens.

I remember when I was at Ibadan 2013 for work, everyone was communicating in Youruba everywhere I went to including Banks and exotic fastfood restaurants.. their first attempt to speak to you is Youruba. The 50% of Youruba I learned was between that 3 months I spent in Ibadan. They only switch to English when they notice you are not one of the locals. Same thing when I went to Onitsha.

Come to Benin na you will see an old woman communicating to you first with English.

Shameful nonsense!

IyanuDeb:
Only English, don't blame me, it's my parents fault

I concur.

saheed24:
Yoruba
Arabic
Hausa

Superstar

Bakrabas:
Yoruba Hausa and Fulfude

I learnt Hausa and Fulfude in my service year in Taraba State, Ardo -Kola LG, Sunkani.

Superstar.

21CENTURY:
I Speak 6 languages fluently 💪💪

Yoruba
Hausa
Igbó
Igala
French and
English.

You be megastar!

richardjnr10:
Army stop our vehicle in bayelsa I look at his name and notice his Hausa I quickly speak Hausa with him na so e leave us o
Understanding langue matters

Exactly.

darfay:
You guys need to do something about urhobo language because it's seriously dieing out. I was at ughelli sometime last year and as big the town is. I did not for once hear anybody speak urhobo not even in that very busy market close to otovwodo where a good number of the traders are urhobo themselves, same scenario is unthinkable in Lagos even with it's very cosmopolitan nature.
A lot of urhobo people born in urhoboland particularly around sapele,uvwie,warri and ughelli are unable to speak their language

Absolute shame!

Urhobo is one of the languages that have no excuse for dying out.

staga:
Police stopped me once over tinted permit. Turned out the guy was from my village. Language bought my release with no money paid.

So there!

online4business:
7
Idoma
Tiv
Yoruba
Hausa
Izon
Kwale
Calabar


If I stay anywhere for a year I'd learn the language

Foreign language no follow ooo that one plenty.

If you get interest with the people you're staying with language is easy pizzy.


Wanted to learn Fulani that year but Benue and Fulani dey fight make them no use me as target practice.

Mo ya japka.

Superstar

alfredilly:
Igbo people are the luckiest when it come to this. Many of them can speak Yoruba

Many are superstars.

They will speak Yoruba so fluently like a local, you will not have an idea they are not Yoruba until they break into Igbo or you hear their names.

Many speak Igbo, Yoruba and English dead fluently.

That is great parenting.

richardjnr10:
Hausa, Igbo, Tiv, Eggon and my native language Ijaw

Superstar

uglodoh:
It may not be failed parenting especially if it is intertribal marriage and you are living in the city.

If you can speak the main language of that city, then that is fine.

If you are a child of a Urhobo father and Igbo mother, but was raised in Kaduna, if you speak Hausa and English, that is honestly fine.

If you speak only English, na failed parenting.

CartelKenneth:
How old is useless for speaking the language of our colonial Masters
is it our fault that we were colonized?

Nawa u o


By the way I speak English and French fluently

It is your parent's (I would not even say ancestors, because I am sure your parents were passed the language) fault that you lost your language. Not colonisation.

Colonisation allowed you to learn a new international language. It is not to blame for losing your own. Blame your parents for that. The probably have inferiority complex and thought it was smart to make your eliminate part of your identity and be more "white" by speaking English only and like a white man.

A correct parent would have made sure you learn your mother tongue, English and even the main language of where you grew up/are living.

Speaking English only is a pathetic manifestation and bad parenting!

Faraday1997:
Ebira, yoruba, hausa and gwandara.

Superstar

Sunkyapogee:
Just 5

Annang, eleme, Igbo , Yoruba and orohbo

Superstar.

CartelKenneth:
Nigerian languages became useless the day the British colonized Us and the rest of the world


They will all die 0ut in 50 yrs time
Except yoruba because virtually all yoruba kids can speak yoruba(that’s the only thing I like about their culture)

If black people had sufficient brain power, only the smallest languages should die out. That is, those spoken in some small local governments with very few speakers and have dominant neighbouring languages (e.g. Ibaas, Bole, Yangkam, Geruma etc.)

But languages like Jukun, Ejagham, Gwari, Ebirra, Urhobo, Berom etc. can only die because the people are black iiidiots!

uglodoh:
Do not be surprised if Davido and Wizkid children can speak the language. Yoruba and Hausa languages are the only languages that may not easily go into extinction especially because of their high illiteracy level.
Many rich folks here in Lagos contract Yoruba teachers to teach their children at home. The parents communicate with the children in Yoruba although some of the children answer back in English.

At least they already showed us that they are sensible enough by giving their children Nigerian names.

Not like the mugus of P-squared with the yeye names they gave their kids and were feeling funky.

SmartyPants:
From your first paragraph i knew it would be Edo. For some reason it seems Edo parents are not too keen on passing on the language.

Failures!

Christian07:
Igbo, yoruba and twi

Superstar!

CartelKenneth:
Yes o
Not only nigerian indeginous sef also all these relegated languages
English ND French will reign supreme

And una go remain second class citizens.

Cloudflare:
You're correct bro. I hardly see Yoruba or igbo adult who cannot speak their dialect. And also in igbo states or Yoruba states they communicate strictly in their dialect except they know you're not an igbo or a Yoruba person. Unlike here in Edo state where pidgin English is our primary dialect for communication

Edo is failing.

worldclass68:
Yoruba..Igbo..Hausa..Idoma

Superstar!