₦airaland Forum

You know how the language learning app Duolingo separates their language courses by flags of countries? What language would Nigeria be? Obviously there's so many languages in India but they only teach Hindi, so would Nigeria's be English?

Nigeria is an English speaking country

Do you think the English language can accurately represent the Nigerian identity?

lordm:
Nigeria is an English speaking country

matamaryam:
Do you think the English language can accurately represent the Nigerian identity?

The very notion of a Nigerian identity is British in origin. So yes. Let English continue to represent that identity while our indiviudal languages continue to represent our ethnic identities.

Thank you for your insights, I agree. That's my main issue with this practice of equating one language to one nation/flag.

RedboneSmith:
The very notion of a Nigerian identity is British in origin. So yes. Let English continue to represent that identity while our indiviudal languages continue to represent our ethnic identities.

I'm curious, if you were to represent the multiplicity of Nigerian culture in images, what would you include then? The Nigerian flag, for example, can serve as a marker of solidarity, but once again ties all people together under just one symbol.

RedboneSmith:
The very notion of a Nigerian identity is British in origin. So yes. Let English continue to represent that identity while our indiviudal languages continue to represent our ethnic identities.

Yes. We are very multi Lingua and English is the most spoken

matamaryam:
Do you think the English language can accurately represent the Nigerian identity?

Already Igbos are representing you guys and are everywhere in the world, so it should be Igbo.

RedboneSmith:
The very notion of a Nigerian identity is British in origin. So yes. Let English continue to represent that identity while our indiviudal languages continue to represent our ethnic identities.