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Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by Slytiger(op): 12:25am On Feb 22

More than 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today and at least 3,000 of them, or 40 percent, are endangered.

English is the most widely spoken language, with approximately 1.5 billion speakers in 186 countries. Two out of every 10 English speakers are native, while the remaining 80 percent speak English as their second, third or higher language, according to Ethnologue, a database which catalogues the world’s languages.

Mandarin Chinese is the second most spoken language with almost 1.2 billion speakers. However, when accounting for native speakers, it is the largest language in the world, owing to China’s large population.

Hindi comes in third at 609 million speakers, followed by Spanish (559 million), and Standard Arabic (335 million).

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/21/where-are-the-most-endangered-languages-in-the-world

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by Ola9ja23: 1:56am On Feb 22

Yoruba to the world

We are not in competition with any envious and noisy neighbor....

We are millions of miles ahead of them

God loves and uplift the peaceful ones

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by AcadaWriter0: 2:39am On Feb 22

The data split Chinese into factions, but left English as a single language. Can a typical Nigerian/African that speaks English converse with a British, American, or Australian?

Try watching some British films and let's see if you won't seek the subtitle.

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by madridguy(m): 3:53am On Feb 22*

Very soon Yoruba language will not be on the list because it is already an endanger language in Yoruba land. Many Yoruba homes don't longer speak Yoruba again. Every Yoruba child between 1-10 years old can't even speak common Yoruba language. You see their parent speaking English language to them.

Many Christians banned Yoruba language, and recently many Muslim home too, Arabic is their official language at home too.

YORUBA E RONU OOOOO. Your language is your identity.

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by Basic123: 4:49am On Feb 22

If you can speak yoruba,always speak yoruba with pride.

Its among the top 50 languages in the world!

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by Obaofaba: 4:55am On Feb 22

Yoruba is in competition with no one. We don't cry marginalization when things don't go our way.

To us, we go to the root of problems and conduct an holistic approach to bettering it not laying accusing fingers.

Everything is not war.

Some people will still look for a way to say this census is rigged to muscle them out.

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by duro4chang(m): 5:55am On Feb 22*

madridguy:
Very soon Yoruba langiage will not be in the list because it is already an endanger language in Yoruba land. Many Yoruba homes don't longer speak Yoruba again. Average every Yoruba child between 1-10 years old can't evem speak Yoruba language. You see their parent speaking English language to them.

Many Christians banned Yoruba language, and recently many Muslim home too, Arabic is their official language at home too.

YORUBA E RONU OOOOO. Your language is your identity.

Trash. Which church banned Yoruba language? Which Yoruba family speak Arabic? Trash . I have never seen any Muslim using Arabic to communicate in his or her home. Arabic is used only in religious affairs not a medium of communication.

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by SmartPolician: 6:09am On Feb 22

AcadaWriter0:
The data split Chinese into factions, but left English as a single language.

Can a typical Nigerian/African that speaks English converse with a British, American, or Australian?

Try watching some British films and let's see if you won't seek the subtitle.

The answer to the emboldened is YES. The problems we often have are their accent and speed. We don't speak as fast as they do because we depend on the rate at which we speak our local languages to speak English. But can we converse with them? Yes, we can.

When I listen to some white men speak so fast, I know they know nothing about communication. You can never see people who understand communication, especially world leaders, rush words because the slower you speak, the better you pass your message.

Disclaimer: This comment doesn't support or debunk the idea of splitting any language. It's only focused on addressing the emboldened issue.

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by brain54(m): 6:46am On Feb 22

AcadaWriter0:
The data split Chinese into factions, but left English as a single language. Can a typical Nigerian/African that speaks English converse with a British, American, or Australian?

Try watching some British films and let's see if you won't seek the subtitle.

Accent is different from the language itself...

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by madridguy(m): 9:10am On Feb 22

Where is the trash? Do you mean you have not seen some families that banned their children from speaking Yoruba language ?

duro4chang:
Trash. Which church banned Yoruba language? Which Yoruba family speak Arabic? Trash

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by untoldtruth: 9:34am On Feb 22

Now where is Hebrew sef?

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by lexylaw09: 10:05am On Feb 22

Yoruba to the world 🌎. And pigin English is also derived from Yoruba language ( Yoruba English)

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by Ibadanfarmroad: 10:57am On Feb 22*

Yorubas are sleeping on their language, if you go to asakes page on YouTube Many whites and foreigners are asking how and where they can learn Yoruba language. E pain me say i no Sabi the language i for don hammer.

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by richiemcgold: 4:05pm On Feb 22*

madridguy:
Many Christians banned Yoruba language, and recently many Muslim home too, Arabic is their official language at home too.

YORUBA E RONU OOOOO. Your language is your identity.

Arabic bawo? Dey lie small small oga. Apart from Islamic prayers and Quran verses, only few Nigerians can speak Arabic fluently. Arabic is not that easy Mr Man

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by CallmeTrinity: 4:06pm On Feb 22

Ola9ja23:
Yoruba to the world

We are not in competition with any envious and noisy neighbor....

We are millions of miles ahead of them

God loves and uplift the peaceful ones

Let me guess, you are raised by a single mom right ?

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by huptin(m): 4:06pm On Feb 22

madridguy:
Very soon Yoruba langiage will not be in the list because it is already an endanger language in Yoruba land. Many Yoruba homes don't longer speak Yoruba again. Every Yoruba child between 1-10 years old can't even speak common Yoruba language. You see their parent speaking English language to them.

Many Christians banned Yoruba language, and recently many Muslim home too, Arabic is their official language at home too.

YORUBA E RONU OOOOO. Your language is your identity.

Muslims dont speak Arabic at home. how many Yoruba muslims understand Arabic? Both christians and muslims particularly the elite speak english at home, Yoruba language is left for kids of the poor and mostly uneducated or not well educated.

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by Goo0dHardDick: 4:06pm On Feb 22

Igbos don't like speaking their language to themselves at all. They'll rather hide and speak it.

I was at the market months ago and the seller spoke Igbo to the young girl purchasing an item. The girl immediately started forming posh and asked the seller to speak in good English instead. Lol. Ujunwa feeling funky

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by geoworldedu: 4:06pm On Feb 22

Ibadanfarmroad:
Yorubas are sleeping on their language, if you go to asakes page on YouTube Manaus whites and foreigners are asking how and where they can learn Yoruba language. E pain me say i no Sabi the language i for don hammer.

Please direct me to the link. I can teach them. I am a teacher grin

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by PDPdestroyer(m): 4:08pm On Feb 22

Honestly this Tinubu is marginalizing we Ibos. He even went as far as removing our language from the list of most spoken languages. We will pay him back with our votes in 2027

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by lugo99(m): 4:08pm On Feb 22

I remember that our class captain and my class teacher backthen in primary school.. na God knows how much I paid for speaking in vanacula and beating I chop then...

Na to ban English English lang in Nigeria make we dey speak our local dilect.. even make we make pidgin as our major language sef

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by Samantha125(f): 4:11pm On Feb 22

Are Hausa people on social media though? Because they're very silent.

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by femi4: 4:13pm On Feb 22

Hausa cos of bbc

Yoruba n pidgin cos of afrobeats

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by Risingblue008(m): 4:16pm On Feb 22

And yet, nothing good to show for,just tri-by-lizm etc
It's as good for nothing

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by UzorIyke(m): 4:19pm On Feb 22

AcadaWriter0:
The data split Chinese into factions, but left English as a single language. Can a typical Nigerian/African that speaks English converse with a British, American, or Australian?

Try watching some British films and let's see if you won't seek the subtitle.

Nothing much there, u can understand if you pay very close attention and as far as you know normal Nigeria English not pidgin ooo grin

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by Banhammy717: 4:20pm On Feb 22

What of Igbo language?
They are many in Europe, and other African countries

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by DMCA: 4:24pm On Feb 22

What happened our bloda Emeka's tongue. grin

it is not mentioned grin

What happened to peter obi's language?
grin

But they are international grin

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by BannedUser: 4:24pm On Feb 22*

madridguy:
Very soon Yoruba langiage will not be in the list because it is already an endanger language in Yoruba land. Many Yoruba homes don't longer speak Yoruba again. Every Yoruba child between 1-10 years old can't even speak common Yoruba language. You see their parent speaking English language to them.

Many Christians banned Yoruba language, and recently many Muslim home too, Arabic is their official language at home too.

YORUBA E RONU OOOOO. Your language is your identity.

This is not true. If there's only one tribe that likes to identify with their language and culture in Nigeria, It is the Yoruba.

Yorubas like to bear their native names more than any other tribe in Nigeria.

Igbo - English names
Hausa - Arabic names

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Re: Hausa, Yoruba, And Nigerian Pidgin Make List Of World's Most Spoken Languages by YoungLionken(m): 4:25pm On Feb 22

Congratulations, but I really wished it was something worth celebrating as a Nigerian, you know, something reasonably significant...

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