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Ttalk:
Statisence should correct itself.

In Lagos the 4 indigenous languages being spoken are
Yoruba, Awori, Ijebu and Egun.

You won't be forgiven when you make such obvious mistake again

Are you Yoruba?
If you are, you would have known that Awori and Ijebu are dialects of Yoruba!
So the OP is correct!

erad:
Osun is not one... There's Ijesha and Igbona and some others I can't remember at the moment. They are yoruba but a different dialect.

Lumping them up under 'yoruba' is oversimplification.

Do you even know the difference between "dialect" and "Language" to start with?

4 ur mind u make sense like dat abi?

MadamExcellency:
Correct your statement. Maybe tribes or clans but definitely not ethnic group.

Ikwerre is just a tribe like Aworis and Ijebus.

No language is ikwerre ikwerre is igbo language.

Why not list the languages?
106?
57?
I find these numbers hard to believe.

Guyman02:
Many people don't know that Igala is a tribe in Anambra, although most of them speak Igbo language but they are still acknowledged and have a good number working in the state Civil service sector and security agencies.
Same is applicable to Enugu state which have Idoma/Igala communities in Nsukka zone of the state.
Anambra Govt radio stations and TV have Igala language program times, Igbos don't suppress people but always ready to tap from your areas of strength to improve themselves.
Some of the popular masquerades in Igbo land were copied from Igala and Efik/Ibibio cultures

Enugu has igala in uzo uwani local government

Ttalk:
Statisence should correct itself.

In Lagos the 4 indigenous languages being spoken are
Yoruba, Awori, Ijebu and Egun.

You won't be forgiven when you make such obvious mistake again

Awori, Ijebu fall under Yoruba. No mistake here.

Only Egun can be categorised as a second language.

Orissodiq:
Do you even know the difference between "dialect" and "Language" to start with?

4 ur mind u make sense like dat abi?

I hate arguing with retards.

Guyman02:
Many people don't know that Igala is a tribe in Anambra, although most of them speak Igbo language but they are still acknowledged and have a good number working in the state Civil service sector and security agencies.
Same is applicable to Enugu state which have Idoma/Igala communities in Nsukka zone of the state.
Anambra Govt radio stations and TV have Igala language program times, Igbos don't suppress people but always ready to tap from your areas of strength to improve themselves.
Some of the popular masquerades in Igbo land were copied from Igala and Efik/Ibibio cultures

That's nice.

The Egun in Yoruba land have their own news segment.

Unfortunately for the Eguns, some Yoruba look down on them for absolutely no reason.

The complaint is that they speak a funny kind of Yoruba, but they aren't Yoruba.

However, in Benin Republic, you have indigenous Egun and Yoruba people as well. They are far more numerous than the Yorubas there.

Many Benin households are actually Egun people, and not Yoruba.

Mynd44:
Ijebu, Egba, Awori are not distinct languages, they are ethnic groups not tribes

They are dialects or clans. They aren't a different ethnic group.

erad:
Osun is not one... There's Ijesha and Igbona and some others I can't remember at the moment. They are yoruba but a different dialect.

Lumping them up under 'yoruba' is oversimplification.

They are Yorubas.

HenryThegreat1:
Complete fake data.
Do u know how many languages we have in delta state?

It can't be more than 10.

Kanixt:
Please verify information before sharing fake data

Very fake data.

Cross River State alone (from the study that we did) has over 30 language clusters. There are even studies that put the number at 50. Abi LGA alone has more than 5! How then do you come up with such a ragtag data?

madridguy:
Same as Aba and many town in Abia state, they used intermarriage to take over the towns from Akwa ibom people.

@TheMensch
Pure Lies ‼️
We Ibibios & Igbos know that there was a war in Arochukwu. Infact an Igbo historian has written the details about that war.
 

By religious and ritual links we mean those provided by the Ibini Ukpabi oracle of the Aro, an institution known in many Cross River communities, especially among the Efik-Ibibio, as Ibritam. The Ibini Ukpabi itself was a typical product of the contact situation existing between the Igbo and the Ibibio. According to its social charter it was, in the beginning, a local god of an Ibibio group. Then it was captured by the Igbo slaves of this Ibibio group, who successfully rebelled against their servile status and sought to turn the table on their masters, who chose instead to flee the region.  Under the control of these erstwhile Igbo slaves, the Ibini Ukpabi grew in influence to become, according to one authority, the most powerful oracle in West Africa by the nineteenth century.

Nigerian history, politics and affairs, Adiele Afigbo.
http://books.google.com/books?id=ez58Dwpa8JcC&pg=PA137/quote]

So as you can read the Ibibio masters left that region after their idol was stolen by their Igbo servants, they were not FORCED to change their language to become Igbo🙄
Infact most of the Ibibio village names have been corrupted by the Igbos there who can't pronounce Ibibio wordings, e.g Obot Okon Ita now called Obinkita which doesn't have any meaning in Ibibio.🤔

Ttalk:
Statisence should correct itself.

In Lagos the 4 indigenous languages being spoken are
Yoruba, Awori, Ijebu and Egun.

You won't be forgiven when you make such obvious mistake again

The indigenous languages in Lagos are: Awori, Ijebu and Ogu(Egun)... While both Awori and Ijebu are sub-Yoruba dialects just like Ibadan, Oyo, Igbonna(Igbomina) etc... Ogu as language is spoken by the Egun people found predominantly in Badagry area in Lagos and some parts of Ogun State that shared border with Badagry in Lagos... Meanwhile, the Yoruba dialect that is generally spoken by all Lagosians is the corrupted version of Awori mixed with Ijebu, blended and fine-tuned!
Coz most of the terms contained in the general dialect could be traced etimologically to either Ijebu or Awori terms

TheMensch:
Please I heard Imo State peop were originally Ibibio speaking before being made (or forced) to adopt Igbo. Please is there any confirmation to anything like this?

this statement doesn't even make sense.
this state is just about the only state in Nigeria with a single language across board.

Ttalk:
Statisence should correct itself.

In Lagos the 4 indigenous languages being spoken are
Yoruba, Awori, Ijebu and Egun.

You won't be forgiven when you make such obvious mistake again

Someone is confusing dialect with language. All the “languages” you listed are variants of the same language, the Yoruba language. They are all Yoruba languages spoken differently. As a Yoruba person from outside of Lagos, I will conveniently understand each one of them if spoken to me since they are still yoruba. Categorizing Egun, Ijebu and Awori as different languages is akin to saying that Ekiti, Ondo, Ijesha and Oyo are all independent languages 😂 No sir, they are dialects of one and the same language called the Yoruba language.

TheMensch:
Please I heard Imo State peop were originally Ibibio speaking before being made (or forced) to adopt Igbo. Please is there any confirmation to anything like this?

This is lies from the pit of hell. There is a reason imo state is called the eastern heartland. Imo state is sorrounded and bordered on all corners by Igbo states and there is no ibibio connection with imo state. The state is the heart of igboland that had never experienced any outside foreign culture. Don't mind that igbophobic bigot telling you that ibibios or igalas own igbos. There was cultural exchanges in Igbo border towns. The arochukwu, a subgroup of igbos had disagreement which led to a war with ibibios. The king of ibibio married an Igbo woman but the ibibios didn't want the son of the ibibio king to succeed the king during his demise. The said son invited his maternal inlaws to help him fight for his right and he won. This lef to the establishment of arochukwu which is in abia north. This is the point of contact between ibibios and igbos. As for the igalas the atah of igalas invaded some northern Igbo communities and enslaved them. After a while the communities rebelled and defeated the igalas armies and regained there freedom. There are over 300 Igbo communities in benue with a population of nearly 1 million. There are also Igbo communities in kogi

Ttalk:
Awori is an ethnic group as well as a dialect just like Egba and Ijebu

Rather, the Yoruba is an ethnic group with different tribes and corresponding dialects of the same language, Yoruba. Therefore, the Ijebu, Egba, Owu, Okun, Ilaje, Egun, Oyo, Ijesa, Ekiti, Owo, Akure etc are all tribes of the same ethnic group called the Yorubas.

Birminghamvirgo:
The indigenous languages in Lagos are: Awori, Ijebu and Ogu(Egun)... While both Awori and Ijebu are sub-Yoruba dialects just like Ibadan, Oyo, Igbonna(Igbomina) etc... Ogu as language is spoken by the Egun people found predominantly in Badagry area in Lagos and some parts of Ogun State that shared border with Badagry in Lagos... Meanwhile, the Yoruba dialect that is generally spoken by all Lagosians is the corrupted version of Awori mixed with Ijebu, blended and fine-tuned!
Coz most of the terms contained in the general dialect could be traced etimologically to either Ijebu or Awori terms

What you're referring to are not languages but different dialects of the one language. Capishe?

This information is misleading. Akoko in Ondo State comprises of 56 towns. They all speak different languages and the shocking part is there are some towns that have two or three dialects. Some streets dialects are different from others. Then Statisense also ignored Ilaje, Ijaw, other groups that have other unique/different mother tongues in Ondo State.
Now I believe Statisense is no sense. My facts are public knowledge to people in Ondo State and some parts of southwest.

Ibadanfarmroad:
Is everything alright at home? You just sit down dey type without direction.

Language as used in the text means distinct language.

The people you listed are all Yoruba though with different dialect.

Go school na lie na to dey do Cho cho cho on SM.

Where did you see me discuss ethnic here. Choice of word and it's usage is alien to many of you.

Can someone name the 10 different languages that are spoken in Benue state?

grandstar:
Awori, Ijebu fall under Yoruba. No mistake here.

Only Egun can be categorised as a second language.

Yes I agree with you, my point is why will Satisense used the word " language" when what it means is "dialects"

Do you believe Nigeria truly have 500 languages?

Birminghamvirgo:
The indigenous languages in Lagos are: Awori, Ijebu and Ogu(Egun)... While both Awori and Ijebu are sub-Yoruba dialects just like Ibadan, Oyo, Igbonna(Igbomina) etc... Ogu as language is spoken by the Egun people found predominantly in Badagry area in Lagos and some parts of Ogun State that shared border with Badagry in Lagos... Meanwhile, the Yoruba dialect that is generally spoken by all Lagosians is the corrupted version of Awori mixed with Ijebu, blended and fine-tuned!
Coz most of the terms contained in the general dialect could be traced etimologically to either Ijebu or Awori terms

Thank you.

I think you present it better than I did. Those noisemakers can read this and shut their mouth

Taraba is 230 at least. I served there so i know it's more than the 61.

DrMB:
Did you know that Bauchi State alone has more than 50 times the number of distinct languages spoken in a state like Abia or Imo? In a country with over 500 languages, what does this stark contrast in linguistic diversity, from 106 languages in one state to just 1 in another, reveal about the historical migrations, cultural concentrations, and political dynamics of Nigeria?
To enrich our discussion, please share other languages or states with unique linguistic facts in the comments below!

Ttalk:
Statisence should correct itself.

In Lagos the 4 indigenous languages being spoken are
Yoruba, Awori, Ijebu and Egun.

You won't be forgiven when you make such obvious mistake again

Igbo is more spoken than Awori, Ijebu and Egun. Go and verify.

Ttalk:
Statisence should correct itself.

In Lagos the 4 indigenous languages being spoken are
Yoruba, Awori, Ijebu and Egun.

You won't be forgiven when you make such obvious mistake again

The writeup is trash, Akwa Ibom is even missing in his write up

erad:
Osun is not one... There's Ijesha and Igbona and some others I can't remember at the moment. They are yoruba but a different dialect.

Lumping them up under 'yoruba' is oversimplification.

There's a difference between language and dialect. The writeup was about languages and not dialect. There are more than a thousand dialect in Nigeria.