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The major tribes in Nigeria are the hausa, igbo, yoruba and others like Tiv, Edo etc. But what about the remaining...

We have about 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria with abt 500 languages but the minority do not have a say. In the north Hausa are the majority and therefore more people tend to speak hausa even if it's not their mother tongue. This tends to reduce the number of people speaking their mother tongue. English our lingua franca has also help in deculturizing us making us abandon our culture.

It is estimated that by 2100 half of the world's approx. 7000 language is going on extinction.

Therefore we need to uphold our culture and teach the younger generation if not our languages will be extinct. We can see that some languages have been extinct and some are on the verge of been extinct.

Nflpmod seun

Wow what an old thread

What you said is correct, mjnority languages might go extinct within the next 50 years if the government doesnt take action to encourage use in the public and economic sectors

Kalatium:
The major tribes in Nigeria are the hausa, igbo, yoruba and others like Tiv, Edo etc. But what about the remaining...

We have about 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria with abt 500 languages but the minority do not have a say. In the north Hausa are the majority and therefore more people tend to speak hausa even if it's not their mother tongue. This tends to reduce the number of people speaking their mother tongue. English our lingua franca has also help in deculturizing us making us abandon our culture.

It is estimated that by 2100 half of the world's approx. 7000 language is going on extinction.

Therefore we need to uphold our culture and teach the younger generation if not our languages will be extinct. We can see that some languages have been extinct and some are on the verge of been extinct.

Nflpmod seun

What minority tribe are you from ?

AutomaticMotors:
What minority tribe are you from ?

Atyap from kaduna State what about you?

Maazieze:
What you said is correct, mjnority languages might go extinct within the next 50 years if the government doesnt take action to encourage use in the public and economic sectors

Nigerian Government won't do anything. It's left for us to pick up the challenge and protect our heritage from going into oblivion.

The extinction of all minority languages (and even most of the majority ones) in Nigeria is an inevitable fate. Best thing we can do for ourselves now is to intensively document these languages for future scholars, historians and linguists, so that when they do die, there at least will be something left behind, because die they eventually will. In the ever homogenizing global world, they simply cannot compete with global languages.

Even larger and more widely spoken African languages like Hausa and Swahili will eventually succumb to the onslaught of global languages, unless Northern Nigeria and the Eastern African bloc become technologically advanced superpowers and deploy their language in teaching science and the arts at all levels to its citizens.

As long as any language group is still teaching calculus, philosophy, chemistry, physics and poetry to its citizens in English or French, I don't care how big that language group is, or how vibrant they think their language is, that language is endangered and has at most a few hundred years to go.

Kalatium:
Atyap from kaduna State what about you?

..Edo

Kalatium:
Atyap from kaduna State what about you?

Kaduna south ?

AutomaticMotors:
Kaduna south ?

Yes

RedboneSmith:
The extinction of all minority languages (and even most of the majority ones) in Nigeria is an inevitable fate. Best thing we can do for ourselves now is to intensively document these languages for future scholars, historians and linguists, so that when they do die, there at least will be something left behind, because die they eventually will. In the ever homogenizing global world, they simply cannot compete with global languages.

Even larger and more widely spoken African languages like Hausa and Swahili will eventually succumb to the onslaught of global languages, unless Northern Nigeria and the Eastern African bloc become technologically advanced superpowers and deploy their language in teaching science and the arts at all levels to its citizens.

As long as any language group is still teaching calculus, philosophy, chemistry, physics and poetry to its citizens in English or French, I don't care how big that language group is, or how vibrant they think their language is, that language is endangered and has at most a few hundred years to go.

You made an interesting point.

I think documentation is the best legacy.

Kalatium:
Yes

Do you live there