You are talking about language, what about the craze for English names?

Vinnie2000:

I saw an IJAW Girl Recently, who came from her VILLAGE to Warri in 2020,
Got Pregnant for an Urhobo Boy whose Mother is IJAW.

She Gave Birth to a Girl and Fast-forward to 2023, I discover that that She and her IJAW Mother-in-law was speaking English to her Daughter! 😯😒😕

I Painfully Asked Her 'You when be Thick IJAW Girl dey Speak English to your daughter?'.
She now Replied 'I want my Daughter to Sabi Speak Correct English o.
For their School, Any Wrong English, Dem go FLOG you'.

I was WEAK Instantly!

See how PRIVATE Schools are Unknowingly DESTROYING and OBLITERATING our Local Languages in Nigeria!😒


By 2040,2050, ALL NIGERIAN LANGUAGES will go EXTINCT, plus the ever Popular Yoruba Language.

Now, Every Nigerian PARENTS is Teaching their Children 'Correct English'
Because they wants to IMPRESS the Schools their Children Attend.🙁

PRIVATE Schools too, Put Pressure on Children to speak 'Correct English' and even Phonetics to IMPRESS PARENTS!

TWO GROUPS Trying to Impress Eachother, to the Detriment of our LOCAL LANGUAGES.


So I ask, [/b]IS THIS TREND GOOD THING? [b]

IS THERE ANY BENEFITS IN BECOMING EXPERT ENGLISH SPEAKERS,
WHILE ABANDONING OUR NATIVE LANGUAGES? 🤔🤨

It is not a good thing

ojun50:
You dey blame the woman

If you go Nigeria EMBASSY na your language Them dey speak ?

If you go Aso rock na yr language them dey speak ?

If you fill form na which language you they use?

How you want make government approves the school if the school no speak English?

By bro no blame the woman Nigeria is complicated.

They can also learn their local languages too.

It is parents fault especially those ones that came from the same tribe, example father and mother are from same tribe.

Etosha:
You are talking about language, what about the craze for English names?

That is another vital issue.

Na our own Igbo language go first go extinct. Come and see children born and raised in Aba telling you, 'I can't speak Igbo'.
Nnaa ehhhh......I feel like nodding the parents of such children

Vinnie2000:

I saw an IJAW Girl Recently, who came from her VILLAGE to Warri in 2020,
Got Pregnant for an Urhobo Boy whose Mother is IJAW.

She Gave Birth to a Girl and Fast-forward to 2023, I discover that that She and her IJAW Mother-in-law was speaking English to her Daughter! 😯😒😕

I Painfully Asked Her 'You when be Thick IJAW Girl dey Speak English to your daughter?'.
She now Replied 'I want my Daughter to Sabi Speak Correct English o.
For their School, Any Wrong English, Dem go FLOG you'.

I was WEAK Instantly!

See how PRIVATE Schools are Unknowingly DESTROYING and OBLITERATING our Local Languages in Nigeria!😒


By 2040,2050, ALL NIGERIAN LANGUAGES will go EXTINCT, plus the ever Popular Yoruba Language.

Now, Every Nigerian PARENTS is Teaching their Children 'Correct English'
Because they wants to IMPRESS the Schools their Children Attend.🙁

PRIVATE Schools too, Put Pressure on Children to speak 'Correct English' and even Phonetics to IMPRESS PARENTS!

TWO GROUPS Trying to Impress Eachother, to the Detriment of our LOCAL LANGUAGES.


So I ask, IS THIS TREND GOOD THING?

IS THERE ANY BENEFITS IN BECOMING EXPERT ENGLISH SPEAKERS,
WHILE ABANDONING OUR NATIVE LANGUAGES? 🤔🤨

There are couple of languages especially in the northeast that are already extinct but not due to English.
It is inevitable.
We can only slow it down with conscious effort but small dialects will be lost with time.
Consumed by bigger ones

Yoruba...can never go extinct. Soon or later we would also make yoruba second official language....for all Nigerians.

Simple solution, send your kids to public schools then.

Advancedman:


When the government removed all indigenous identity from our curriculum what do you expect?
Hyper corruption has killed control of Private schools by the respective agencies.
[/b][b][/b]Super fantabulous inferiority[b] [b][/b]and fakeism has destroyed parents on self worth regarding mother's tongue.

This is the point.

These three languages can't go extinct in Nigeria, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbos,

others that forming preferential treatment for English langue over their own languages

will suffer it in future, Yoruba and Hausa will still stand till the world exist no more.

Moniya4Real:
But no be ONLY Nigeria the west colonized naw. That’s why you’ll never see an Indian that can’t speak his or her language. You can even tell they are Indians by the way they speak English

You dey mind them. Yet the Indians are top in science and technology all around the world

The issue is. Some of these parents are actually suffering from an intense inferiority complex. Maybe because some of them were not brought up with the best Education or something. They were made to see their language and culture as the worst.

Because I can't just fathom it. I don't live abroad. It is even understable for children born abroad. But you were born here, and your children will not be able to speak my language? Which kind of foolishness is that?

Was talking to one 9 year old on Monday and he couldn't even understand a thing except 'scattered' Yoruba. I actually thought he was Igbo until I asked of his name and was surprised when told me his name. Asked him why he couldn't speak Yoruba. He said his parents used to tell them not to speak Yoruba

I was amazed and perplexed. Very useless parents

Some of them will even be happy about it.

They will say he will learn it later. .

I don't know why you can't learn English in school and learn your language at home with your parents etc.

Till date i think the english of a thing is peculiar to the southerners, the Northerners do not play with their languages even in the place of work.

Obagreatdatoye:
Yoruba...can never go extinct. Soon or later we would also make yoruba second official language....for all Nigerians.

Before or after the clueless drugbag(the best you guys can offer to Nigerians) has finished destroying the country??

U must pass Yoruba language in LAGOS State
Now

When you communicate in your language, you expressed yourself freely unlike English that you'll be thinking before you say a word atimes.... English language is good but our native language will always better

aademola11:
Till date i think the english of a thing is peculiar to the southerners, the Northerners do not play with their languages even in the place of work.

Never. Go and visit the FIRS in Ibadan. You will think you are in Kano. A federal government agency o

Vinnie2000:

I saw an IJAW Girl Recently, who came from her VILLAGE to Warri in 2020,
Got Pregnant for an Urhobo Boy whose Mother is IJAW.

She Gave Birth to a Girl and Fast-forward to 2023, I discover that that She and her IJAW Mother-in-law was speaking English to her Daughter! 😯😒😕

I Painfully Asked Her 'You when be Thick IJAW Girl dey Speak English to your daughter?'.
She now Replied 'I want my Daughter to Sabi Speak Correct English o.
For their School, Any Wrong English, Dem go FLOG you'.

I was WEAK Instantly!

See how PRIVATE Schools are Unknowingly DESTROYING and OBLITERATING our Local Languages in Nigeria!😒


By 2040,2050, ALL NIGERIAN LANGUAGES will go EXTINCT, plus the ever Popular Yoruba Language.

Now, Every Nigerian PARENTS is Teaching their Children 'Correct English'
Because they wants to IMPRESS the Schools their Children Attend.🙁

PRIVATE Schools too, Put Pressure on Children to speak 'Correct English' and even Phonetics to IMPRESS PARENTS!

TWO GROUPS Trying to Impress Eachother, to the Detriment of our LOCAL LANGUAGES.


So I ask, IS THIS TREND GOOD THING?

IS THERE ANY BENEFITS IN BECOMING EXPERT ENGLISH SPEAKERS,
WHILE ABANDONING OUR NATIVE LANGUAGES? 🤔🤨

How did you come about that statistics? Do you know how many Nigerians that can barely speak the English you talk about? Do you know the number of out of school children we have? Not that im saying it's wrong for parents to teach their kids their native tongue , im just saying your projection about our local languages going extinct is wrong, very wrong.

YOU LOST YOUR MOTHERLAND LANGUAGE, YOU BECAME SLAVE TO THE ONE WHO FIND IT

How do i unread what i just read

They (private schools) are also destroying the educational system in Nigeria. They are employing half baked teachers everywhere without adequate training and retraining just because they want to cut cost.

I swear

I speak my native language to my kids from 1 to 15th day of the month, and the second half in English.

EyeCumInPiece:
Blackman languages will continue to be irrelevant until Blackman starts impacting the world positively. So far, blackman has little or nothing to offer the world.
So you can't depend on Oyibo technology etc & leave out their language.

People don’t get this thing you just said which is the truth. I still posted something similar recently. For the most part, our existence especially as adults is not hinged on being fluent in the local dialects. Getting a job often requires fluency in foreign language and proficiency in using their tools (machines and tech) whose manuals are of course not written in our local languages.

We have to engineer ways by which our productivity and sufficiency are intertwined with our use of indigenous language.

Vinnie2000:

I saw an IJAW Girl Recently, who came from her VILLAGE to Warri in 2020,
Got Pregnant for an Urhobo Boy whose Mother is IJAW.

She Gave Birth to a Girl and Fast-forward to 2023, I discover that that She and her IJAW Mother-in-law was speaking English to her Daughter! 😯😒😕

I Painfully Asked Her 'You when be Thick IJAW Girl dey Speak English to your daughter?'.
She now Replied 'I want my Daughter to Sabi Speak Correct English o.
For their School, Any Wrong English, Dem go FLOG you'.

I was WEAK Instantly!

See how PRIVATE Schools are Unknowingly DESTROYING and OBLITERATING our Local Languages in Nigeria!😒


By 2040,2050, ALL NIGERIAN LANGUAGES will go EXTINCT, plus the ever Popular Yoruba Language.

Now, Every Nigerian PARENTS is Teaching their Children 'Correct English'
Because they wants to IMPRESS the Schools their Children Attend.🙁

PRIVATE Schools too, Put Pressure on Children to speak 'Correct English' and even Phonetics to IMPRESS PARENTS!

TWO GROUPS Trying to Impress Eachother, to the Detriment of our LOCAL LANGUAGES.


So I ask, IS THIS TREND GOOD THING?

IS THERE ANY BENEFITS IN BECOMING EXPERT ENGLISH SPEAKERS,
WHILE ABANDONING OUR NATIVE LANGUAGES? 🤔🤨

Mine is Local Language at home and English language while in school! Our mother tongue before any other one

Timoleon:


People don’t get this thing you just said which is the truth. I still posted something similar recently. For the most part, our existence especially as adults is not hinged on being fluent in the local dialects. Getting a job often requires fluency in foreign language and proficiency in using their tools (machines and tech) whose manuals are of course not written in our local languages.

We have to engineer ways by which our productivity and sufficiency are intertwined with our use of indigenous language.

I disagree. It is what you comsume that affects you. Those tribes in Amazon, are they speaking English?Are they not surviving? Do they interact with the world? It is when you are ashamed of yourself you begin to look outside. Do you think Chinese don't study English? They use their language first but learn English to work with outside world. Nigerians think everything revolves round English. What about French, Spanish. How do people work with them? Was it Hausa that they spoke before they came to steal our gold in zamfara?

VOsimhen144:
Bro, it’s really pathetic…. I don’t know what’s wrong with dis generation, they barely speak their native languages. Every tribe in Nigeria wants to be speaking English, even the English dem no sabi speak am well.
I be confirm Edo guy, when I was growing up as a kid, we use to speak our language (Esan) everywhere… at school, at home, market e.t.c but that’s doesn’t mean we no sabi English.

But if you go to village now, Majority of the children and youth can’t even speak their language. It’s so sad.
They are all forming mumu English.

That’s why God would continue to bless countries like Russia 🇷🇺, Spain 🇪🇸, Croatia 🇭🇷, Finland 🇫🇮, China 🇨🇳, Japan 🇯🇵 and Sweden 🇸🇪. They fvcking don’t care about English. They speak their mothers tongue to the fullest, dem no send ur papa. God punish English.

I guess it is because of the drop in standards of Education. Back then , you will speak your native language and attend public school with very competent teachers. No vernacular was allowed in school but after school hours you would speak it everywhere. There needs to be a balance . But in my personal opinion , native languages should be used as a mode of communication in schools for better undertanding. Like you mentioned, foreign countries do this and have exceled at it. Who English help!

You go write ijaw and uhrobo for IELTS

When your pikin write waec 20 times cos e no pass English you go understand say e dey importanter

Aside understanding basic communication in native language, e no dey useful

Hmmmm


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Are you not guilty of the same thing?
Why write your writeup in English, why not IJAW? or any other indigenous language.

The diverse nature of Nigerian languages is the major reason many languages will become extinct. The languages are way too many and largely unreasonable.

Many of the people claiming Yoruba language now actually have their local diatects. They've abandoned it for Yoruba. The Yoruba of Ilesha is not the same as the Yoruba of Ijebu, Ekiti, Ondo, Lagos, Yagba in Kogi.

In Kogi state alone, there are over 10 different brands of Yoruba language. How can a generation keep up with that diversity? Almost every town has a local dialect. You may understand what they're saying,but you'll never be able to speak even if you know the generic Yoruba.

Everyone is now adopting the generic Yoruba at the expense of their distinct local mother tongue. Yet, these same people who are completely clueless about their native languages turn around to blame English speakers.

An Ilesha man who goes around speaking the generic Yoruba language has equally failed his generation. Yoruba is not your first language.

When you combine most of these local dialects, you would realise that Nigeria has over 17,000 languages. Only a useless generation will keep up with this level of diversity. There are better things to do, .e.g. innovations, military sophistications, etc. than learning or interpreting 17,000 languages. No be like this UK, US, and Canada take develop.

The diversity of Nigerian languages emerged from a place of illiteracy, beef, hatred, and disunity. We need a common ground at the end of the day.