esof1:
Nigerian Pidgin na im be our lingua franca.

StarFlux:

Until then, pidgin dey sound well well for ear.

StarFlux:

Until then, pidgin dey sound well well for ear.

Ajuran:
Thats how all of Africa is except for Somalia(Somali), Ethiopia (Amaharic)

Fulaman198:


Somalia is an exception although there are Oromos there. However, I have heard that Italian is spoken in some parts of the horn. Where I'm from though, English is hardly spoken the Lingua Francas are Fulfulde and Hausa. Those 2 languages are spoken by most Fulani people in North Eastern Nigeria.

YoungBraniac:

U didn't get it right.
D question is : What is a Lingua-Franca?
This is a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.
What am saying is dat there should be a generally accepted, spoken, and understandable language by all the people residing in that particular country.
Take for example :
All Indians can speak nd understand hindi,
then what about Nigeria?

Fulaman198:


All Indians can't speak Hindi though

Fulaman198:


Somalia is an exception although there are Oromos there. However, I have heard that Italian is spoken in some parts of the horn. Where I'm from though, English is hardly spoken the Lingua Francas are Fulfulde and Hausa. Those 2 languages are spoken by most Fulani people in North Eastern Nigeria.

Ajuran:



Italian is spoken by a few hundred people who are old now. But the official language of Somalia is Somali, Arabic is a second language for commercial use since most of our trade is with the middle east and we are part of the arab league. But the Government does all things in Somali.

Same in Ethiopia, their official language is Amharic, same in Eritrea.

How is Somalia an exception?

Fulaman198:


Eritrea speaks Tigrinya and a few other languages, same with Ethiopia, Amhara isn't the main ethnic group, the Oromos are (Selassie) was an oromo I believe.

ArtanK:


Eritrea's official language is Tigrigna because that is the mother tongue of nearly 60% of the population. But with regard to Ethiopia, although the the Amhara are not the most numerous ethnic group in Ethiopia, their language is used in formal settings like schools, government, TV, Radio and so forth. Local languages like Oromo, Somali, Tigrigna and etc. are only spoken in their respective regions.

Haile Selassie was Oromo but he acquired his status as a King and Emperor though his father's maternal ancestry (Amhara). Despite being Oromo himself, he still killed thousands of Oromo people and put almost 10 million in concentration camps run by the military. The bastar.d also harboured deep hatred towards Somalis because we sit on 1/3rd of Ethiopia's land mass and we rejected his fake 'Greater Ethiopia' aka Neo-Aksum vision.

Fulaman198:


Eritrea speaks Tigrinya and a few other languages, same with Ethiopia, Amhara isn't the main ethnic group, the Oromos are (Selassie) was an oromo I believe.

Same as with Nigeria. If you go to the Northern part of the country, you mainly hear Hausa being used as the main lingua franca (with different Hausa dialects like Kananci and Sakkwataci). Hardly is English used in the north because we don't have that kind of inferiority complex to bow down to the Brits

Penssuwa:
The lingua franca is Ijaw. plz dnt ask me how

Ajuran:



I was talking official language. In Somalia everyone speaks Somali, even the Bantus. Even though they have their own mildly bantu language which borrows many words from SOMALI.

-fyi this is Ajuran's wife, am continuing his legacy while he recovers

Ajuran:



I was talking official language. In Somalia everyone speaks Somali, even the Bantus. Even though they have their own mildly bantu language which borrows many words from SOMALI.

-fyi this is Ajuran's wife, am continuing his legacy while he recovers

Fulaman198:


Sure it is and I am Fulaman198's foot Goddess

Fulaman198:


Good to know, thanks man

ArtanK:


You're welcome.

How's it going brother?

YoungBraniac:
@penssuwa did u say Ijaw is our Lingua-Franca?
We have 3 major languages in Nigeria, that is languages that have large number of speakers and Ijaw may be 4th or 5th in terms of rating major languages in Nigeria.
There should be a kind of language that bonds all Nigerians together(not english lang.) as this may bring all ethnic groups, and tribes together in love and unity.
We can all partially take pidgin as our Lingua-Franca, because almost all Nigerian citizens are familiar with it.

Fulaman198:


Doing well brother, it's been a while has it not?

ArtanK:


Good to hear bro. It has indeed been a while, no one has any time for NL these days.

Fulaman198:


Eritrea speaks Tigrinya and a few other languages, same with Ethiopia, Amhara isn't the main ethnic group, the Oromos are (Selassie) was an oromo I believe.

Same as with Nigeria. If you go to the Northern part of the country, you mainly hear Hausa being used as the main lingua franca (with different Hausa dialects like Kananci and Sakkwataci). Hardly is English used in the north because we don't have that kind of inferiority complex to bow down to the Brits

django1:


Lmao, are you serious about the bolded? Your people are simply uneducated that's why.

Fulaman198:


So speaking English gauges one's level of intelligence?

Not only are you uneducated and bigoted, but your brain must be ossifying to the state of a true slave.

Fulaman198:


So speaking English gauges one's level of intelligence?

Not only are you uneducated and bigoted, but your brain must be ossifying to the state of a true slave.

StarFlux:
Na truth be that.

What kind of "educated" person looks down on our native tongues? If you're that educated you should know the value of language and identity.