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Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by yashau(op): 11:50am On Nov 27, 2023

🇰🇪🇿🇦🇹🇿🇨🇩🇸🇴...Swahili: 98m
🇳🇬🇳🇪🇨🇮🇧🇯🇹🇬...Hausa: 63m
🇳🇬🇧🇯🇱🇷🇸🇱..Yoruba: 40m
🇿🇦Zulu: 28m
🇳🇬Igbo: 27m
🇿🇼🇿🇦Xhosa: 19m
🇳🇬NGN Fulfulde: 14m
🇲🇱Bamanankan: 14m
🇿🇦North Sotho: 14m
🇿🇦🇧🇼Setswana: 14m
🇿🇦🇿🇼South Sotho: 14m
🇨🇲🇲🇱🇨🇮Jula: 12m
#StatiSense

(Ethnologue)

https://twitter.com/StatiSense/status/1229833181374881794?t=dgo4AIZYUGI4gYy4wDi4cw&s=19

Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by yashau(op): 11:50am On Nov 27, 2023

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Dikastan: 11:58am On Nov 27, 2023

Guess work

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by YorubaDemonswag: 11:59am On Nov 27, 2023

Some people who have used stati sense severally as sources to back up their claims will soon be here to trash this grin

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Paraman: 12:01pm On Nov 27, 2023

YorubaDemonswag:
Some people who have used stati sense severally as sources to back up their claims will soon be here to trash this

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Oxbow01(m): 12:05pm On Nov 27, 2023

Igbo is not spoken only in igboland

It is dominantly found in equatorial Guinea, carribean Nations and others

You can search it to see

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Paraman: 12:14pm On Nov 27, 2023

Oxbow01:
Igbo is not spoken only in igboland

It is dominantly found in equatorial Guinea, carribean Nations and others

You can search it to see

Which part of Equatorial Guinea is Igbo spoken? Do you even know the location of Equatorial Guinea in the map?

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Oxbow01(m): 12:16pm On Nov 27, 2023

Paraman:
Which part of Equatorial Guinea is Igbo spoken? Do you even know the location of Equatorial Guinea in the map?

Google will help you bro.

I got no time for juvenile argument.

Malabo has indigenous igbos language users

The source has to Even add USA to a Yoruba own
That alone ruins everything about this statistics

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Oxbow01(m): 12:21pm On Nov 27, 2023

Paraman:
Which part of Equatorial Guinea is Igbo spoken? Do you even know the location of Equatorial Guinea in the map?

Igbo is actually the third largest spoken language/tribe in Equatorial Guinea.

Can be seen in gabon, Cameron and Caribbean.

Now do the research

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Couldntfigurean: 12:26pm On Nov 27, 2023

Oxbow01:
Igbo is not spoken only in igboland

It is dominantly found in equatorial Guinea, carribean Nations and others

You can search it to see

There is this proud Gabonese Igbo lady on TikTok
She said her dad still speaks Igbo language like the dialects in Abia state
I think they were the Biafra children that where taken to Gabon during the war and didn’t return after the war

https://www.tiktok.com/@nwaigbonour?_t=8hi12Jw4ggH&_r=1

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Hez143(m): 12:31pm On Nov 27, 2023

Oxbow01:
Google will help you bro.

I got no time for juvenile argument.

Malabo has indigenous igbos language users

The source has to Even add USA to a Yoruba own
That alone ruins everything about this statistics

Yoruba dey USA,same Google will help you,even in Brazil, Portugal Yoruba dey there,but e no dey the source
Do you know where oyo-tunji is??

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Oxbow01(m): 12:37pm On Nov 27, 2023

Hez143:
Yoruba dey USA,same Google will help you,even in Brazil, Portugal Yoruba dey there,but e no dey the source
Do you know where oyo-tunji is??

See.... there's difference between indigenous language and migrants language.

Please when did Yoruba become an indigenous tribe to USA??

I know of Brazil but explain the one of USA to me

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Alaigbo(m): 12:47pm On Nov 27, 2023

As Igbo is not #1 ba ?;

Dikastan:
Guess work

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Hez143(m): 12:47pm On Nov 27, 2023

Oxbow01:
See.... there's difference between indigenous language and migrants language.

Please when did Yoruba become an indigenous tribe to USA??

I know of Brazil but explain the one of USA to me

for where I mentioned indigenous from my post huh

btw, Yoruba is not indigenous to Brazil

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Oxbow01(m): 12:49pm On Nov 27, 2023

Hez143:
for where I mentioned indigenous from my post

The thread is about indigenous language

Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Oxbow01(m): 12:50pm On Nov 27, 2023

Hez143:
for where I mentioned indigenous from my post
btw, Yoruba is not indigenous to Brazil

Lol. It's okay.

Yoruba is indigenous to some part of Brazil and Cuba.

Do research

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by BadMaster: 12:53pm On Nov 27, 2023

There are indigenous speakers of Fulfulde in several West African countries, not only in Nigeria. It's now I know that this StatiSense don't know what they're doing.

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Hez143(m): 12:54pm On Nov 27, 2023

Oxbow01:
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Lol. It's okay.
Yoruba is indigenous to some part of Brazil and Cuba.
Do research

LOL,na the one's wey move from here during slave trade!!

Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Hez143(m): 12:55pm On Nov 27, 2023

Oxbow01:
The thread is about indigenous language

MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGES!!

Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Paraman: 1:19pm On Nov 27, 2023

Oxbow01:
Igbo is actually the third largest spoken language/tribe in Equatorial Guinea.

What type of nonsense talk is this?

Do you even know the location of Equatorial Guinea?

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Paraman: 1:22pm On Nov 27, 2023

Oxbow01:
Google will help you bro.

I got no time for juvenile argument.

Malabo has indigenous igbos language users

The source has to Even add USA to a Yoruba own
That alone ruins everything about this statistics

So it's Google that tell you that there are indigenous igbos in Equatorial Guinea?

Oya show me where you got your own source from Google cause I can't find it

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Dhury: 1:24pm On Nov 27, 2023

Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Dhury: 1:28pm On Nov 27, 2023

Oxbow01:
Igbo is not spoken only in igboland

It is dominantly found in equatorial Guinea, carribean Nations and others

You can search it to see

how come igbo top fulfulde? How many countries listed below?

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by YoungBlackRico(m): 1:43pm On Nov 27, 2023

YorubaDemonswag:
Some people who have used stati sense severally as sources to back up their claims will soon be here to trash this

Na their way grin

. They'll tell you it's fake even when they've used same platform when it's in their favor...funny set of people. U sabi them well well

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Oxbow01(m): 1:48pm On Nov 27, 2023

Paraman:
What type of nonsense talk is this?

Do you even know the location of Equatorial Guinea?

Its located in Jupiter

Happy now?

Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Oxbow01(m): 1:50pm On Nov 27, 2023

Paraman:
What type of nonsense talk is this?

Do you even know the location of Equatorial Guinea?

Is it that you are blind or can't comprehend?

It's in the first screenshot I posted here

Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Oxbow01(m): 1:53pm On Nov 27, 2023

Paraman:
So it's Google that tell you that there are indigenous igbos in Equatorial Guinea?

Oya show me where you got your own source from Google cause I can't find it

My cousin brother resides there

Minus Google.....I knew of it before

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by saintfieldcastro: 1:59pm On Nov 27, 2023

Statisense based in Mushin with office in Somolu, operated by Agb.ado Ronu ethnic bigo.ts is the source of the info! Lol!

Fulfulde(Fula) is spoken in over 15 African countries, same with Hausa.
Yoruba is spoken in Nigeria as one of the major languages, spoken in Benin, Togo , Ghana, Sierra Leone, Cote D'Ivoire as Minority language, and used in incantation in Brazil and Cuba in Deity worship.

Igbo is spoken in Nigeria as a Major language, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon as Minority language.
Hausa speakers are up to 100M
Yoruba speakers 45M
Igbo speakers 44.9M

Speakers of a language mustn't be ethnically linked to the language. Most Urhobo, Igala, Edos and Nupes speak Yoruba but are not ethnically Yorubas.

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by YorubaDemonswag: 2:02pm On Nov 27, 2023

YoungBlackRico:
Na their way . They'll tell you it's fake even when they've used same platform when it's in their favor...funny set of people. U sabi them well well

Who no go sabi Obi people?

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by Donaldoni: 2:53pm On Nov 27, 2023

Most spoken African language worldwide is Yoruba tongue

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by VEHINTOLAR: 2:53pm On Nov 27, 2023*

yashau:
🇰🇪🇿🇦🇹🇿🇨🇩🇸🇴...Swahili: 98m
🇳🇬🇳🇪🇨🇮🇧🇯🇹🇬...Hausa: 63m
🇳🇬🇧🇯🇱🇷🇸🇱..Yoruba: 40m
🇿🇦Zulu: 28m
🇳🇬Igbo: 27m
🇿🇼🇿🇦Xhosa: 19m
🇳🇬NGN Fulfulde: 14m
🇲🇱Bamanankan: 14m
🇿🇦North Sotho: 14m
🇿🇦🇧🇼Setswana: 14m
🇿🇦🇿🇼South Sotho: 14m
🇨🇲🇲🇱🇨🇮Jula: 12m
#StatiSense

(Ethnologue)

https://twitter.com/StatiSense/status/1229833181374881794?t=dgo4AIZYUGI4gYy4wDi4cw&s=19[/quote]This is wrong from the perspective of Yoruba. There are indigenous Yoruba people in the underlisted countries :

1. Nigeria
2. Benin Republic
3. Togo
4. Ghana
5. Sierra Leone
7. Liberia
8.Gambia and a minute part of Senegal
9.Brazil
10.Cuba
11.Trinidad and Tobago
12.Jamaica

There is also Oyotunji in South Carolina,United States of America which is an authentic Yoruba village. It was set up by African Americans of Yoruba ancestry whose main objective is to preserve their Yoruba heritage and culture.

Therefore,the number of indigenous Yoruba speakers worldwide is more than the partry 40 millions that you ascribed to it; it's in the excess of 80m+ as a matter of fact. A trip to Bahia in Brazil alone will convince you !

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Re: Twelve Most-spoken African Languages by KingPure(m): 3:13pm On Nov 27, 2023

That was not USA's flag but Liberia's.
Though I quite got the point you’re making.

Even Yoruba language & culture are equally widely spoken & practiced in Latin America nations like Brazil & the likes

Oxbow01:
Google will help you bro.

I got no time for juvenile argument.

Malabo has indigenous igbos language users

The source has to Even add USA to a Yoruba own
That alone ruins everything about this statistics

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