[size=18pt]Yoruba language is studied in 47 American varsities, says UI don [/size]
[size=18pt]Yoruba Language Listed As Criteria To Join British Police [/size]
[size=18pt][b]Yoruba Language Is The Most Influential Nigerian Language .[/size]
[size=18pt] Scandinavian Countries to Teach Yoruba Language in Schools[/size] (He said the duty and responsibility of the European chapter should be to cover 25 countries out of the 28 in Europe.)
ezeagu: Oh, come on, Igbo is spoken in more African countries in larger numbers than all Nigerian languages because of trade, yet I cannot honestly say Igbo is a lingua franca of Gabon, even if people greet 'Igwe' in Kenya because of Nollywood.
lmaooooo even igbo musicians are singing in Yoruba
To reach out to more African nations, you need Yoruba
ArodeTsolaye: Igbo is spoken in Eq. Guinea and recognized in their constitution as an official language. We didn't have to sell the highest number of slaves like the yorrobers did to achieve that in Eq. guinea. Ina nu m?
LMAOOOOO the Igbo language is dead in Eq Guinea as its dying in Nigeria
Do you know several european countries now have Yorubas in their curriculum? Yoruba language classes. And more than 47 USA universities teaches Yoruba.
So once again, why should BBCAfrica ignore Yoruba?
ezeagu: [size=18pt]Swahili is a lingua franca for a diverse people in east Africa[/size], many of which do not speak English much. The same for Hausa. BBC is looking for ways to spread their influence so they'll spend their money on things which can which is why "A TV service will be added to the existing service for Somalia." Does an emerging country like Vietnam, miles ahead of probably the whole of Africa have a BBC Vietnam?
Yoruba is a lingua franca of more than 3 west african countries.
Yoruba is one of Africa's most widespread languages.
So stop yarning dust.
Africans and slavery. I'd rather preservation of my language than English.
nwanlecha: Lol! I don't see it that way though. If they decide to broadcast in Yoruba, it's a good thing 'cus it will help promote their culture just as they've been doing for years now with the Hausa service. I hope you know it's not a thing of pride to value English more than your own language?
Good girl
Don't worry, your brothers are just yarning dust for now. They know what this means, so they'd rather talk trash here and beg on BBCAfrica
Musiwa419: The idiot that you quoted had is secondary education in Ibadan, he speaks Yoruba language fluently more than his own dying ibo language
lmaoooo na him go jam the radio more than Yorubas sef
ArodeTsolaye: Here in the east, i hardly hear Igbo school children speak english but they still thrash yoruba children in national and international academic competitions. Igbo language is VERY MUCH ALIVE than you think. Teacher: 'Nneka okafor! ' Pupils: 'Obiaro'
There in the East, Igbo language is dying.
Igbo people even speak Yoruba more than some Yoruba people.
So why should BBCAfrica ignore Yoruba?
There's another Yoruba radio station that Gani just started airing...... and you're telling me I shouldn't be happy that someone is reviving and spreading my language?
ezeagu: Do Swahili speakers in French countries like the Comoros and DRC understand English? What about the millions of people who speak little to no English like even in Nigeria, evidently.
Swahili is one of the widely spoken languages and one of the most studied languages all over the world, that's one BBCSwahili exists.
BBC Hausa BBC Swahili BBC Yoruba BBCPidgin
Pidgin is also spoken by lots of SWern Africans, no?
ArodeTsolaye: What do you expect? when yorober and foolery is like bread and butter. They couldn't see through the real issue before jumping for 'victory over Igbos'.
Oil prices are plummettng.There is no more free oil money for osun, oyo and the rest to pay waec fees. Demographics also show that yorubers are the least educated in the south. They have the lowest cutt off after the illiterate north.
Now a simple test, what do these group of people have in common?-
Hausas, Somalians, Eritreans, and now Osun, Oyo and co
1. ) illiteracy? 2.) poverty?
The British are trying save them from having a 100% almajiri situation, yet they think they won one over the Igbos.
Actually this is a victory over Igbo's dying language.
Igbo is restricted to SE Nigeria, and even then, they've acculturated themselves with pidgin and Yoruba language.
Yoruba is not only spoken in English, it's even being taught in USA/Europe, so why should BBC ignore Yoruba?
Tell me why igbo people are crying on BBCAfrica about not having BBCIgbo?
Obiagu1: [size=18pt]Organisations don't waste money on irrelevant programs,[/size] they are not charities!
They transmit on Official Languages only, but when the Official Language is not understood by millions of people they intend to reach out to due to mass illiteracy, they transmit in a second language.
Hausa language program has been the only non-official African language program on the BBC for years due to their inability to understand Nigerian Official Language, English. Now Yoruba has been added to the list.
Not a good sign, girl.
So Swahili people don't understand English? So Swahili people are illiterate?
BBC programs are done in Official Languages as well as second languages where there are mass illiteracy and inability to understand Official languages like Hausa and Yoruba.
So BBC that speaks English suggest that English speakers are illiterate?
That you don't preserve your language or take pride in it kills your language itself. That's the igbo language's undoing.
So what will you say when BBC Igbo comes out in 10 years time?
ezeagu: Who is consoling who? [size=18pt]This thread has nothing to do with Igbo people[/size] but every comment is in reference to Igbo people revealing massive insecurity.
Everybody gets a chance to mock such emotional wailers.
They cried about MNET not having an Igbo TV station, while in another breath they claimed that Africa Magic actually shows more of Nollywood movies which they dominate.
[size=18pt]They cried about BBC having Hausa language station, forgetting that Hausa like Yoruba is an international language not limited to just a tribe in Nigeria, but an international tribe across West Africa. They even claimed the legitimate and civil toned BBC Hausa service is enough justification to have a pirate radio that advocates for national terrorism and anarchy. [/size]
They are now crying over infrastructural development in the East, while also claiming that the Eastern region is more developed than the North and the West.
Do you now understand why emotional cry babies are always mocked with their own duplicitous wailings?
It won't be long before they surprise you with cries of this marginalization on this very plan by the BBC. But like the Igbo that you are, you have not surprised us either. BBC is petty now until they have an Igbo language station, right?
The same way the Nobel prize in Literature is an irrelevant award as already alluded to by many Igbos here, until an Igbo finally win it, right?
Very predictable clansmen.
Our resident chestbeaters think Yoruba is spoken only in Nigeria.
ezeagu: [size=18pt]Why can't you guys tell this to Benin Republic[/size] and Boko Haram? And don't forget Fulani marauders. They're currently hammering you from all sides. Thanks.
Igbo women picked up cassava sticks and whooped the British and their minions back to their island. Anioma people whooped the British ass for 20 years before Hausa soldiers were used to subdue them. Nnamdi Azikiwe is the hero of Nigerian Independence.
ezeagu: 30 years of fighting to lead to Nigeria's independence. The world powers had to combine to keep the Igbo in Nigeria, and they're trying to get out again now. You might have heard.
When were you fighting to lead Nigeria's independence? I keep hearing about the world powers, but they were trying to be humanized during the war. You wonder why it took one man, awolowo, to strategize and end this war? Should there be a war today, there will be no mercy. Technology has evolved beyond cassava sticks and AK-47.
superstar1: It is really not a great news because it will end up being a tool for mind conditioning and further programming of the minds of the blacks, in a form of pseudo-colonialisation.
The pros are that it will keep propagating the language, promoting our rich culture and heritage our forefathers handed down to us. It will alos give us an international pedestal to tell our story in our own way.