₦airaland Forum

Caleycash:
Lets be realistic you and I knows that 50million years to come no indigenous languages can get to the standard of being an international language... there are many factors which makes a language popular and international. For example colonialism, we all know how that made English and French very popular, secondly those languages are more easier to learn compared to local languages, so am not hyping English and French am talking about someone being diverse and fluent in both international languages, I believe it will help us (Nigerians). and by the way there is nothing wrong in speaking upto five languages cus have met many people who do, Frankly am saying all these out of jealousy

I like your points and I agree with you...but it's necessary to support the local languages. Thanks

And I also think you are exaggerating the knowledge of English in the francophone African countries.. As far as I know,Most people in Mali and Gabon don't speak a word of English.And even in the francophone part of Cameroon, knowledge of English is only widespread among educated youngsters.

SPDAZZY:
Salut frère, vous avez raison.
Je suis d'accord avec vous.

J'ai rencontré un francophonie ici et vraiment, c'est très magnifique d'avoir quelqu'un avec on pourra parler la langue. Et puis, apprendre de plus.

Si on peut créer le groupe, ajoutez mon numéro 08134514474. Bonne soirée

please where did you learn French from?

sampsondeen:
please where did you learn French from?

Studied French in the University.

enieme:
Fiance: fiance of course
Se finis: that's it

CEST FINI thats it

sampsondeen:
I like your points and I agree with you...but it's necessary to support the local languages. Thanks

And I also think you are exaggerating the knowledge of English in the francophone African countries.. As far as I know,Most people in Mali and Gabon don't speak a word of English.And even in the francophone part of Cameroon, knowledge of English is only widespread among educated youngsters.

I guess ur right about Mali and Gabon, but there er many French speaking countries that average amount of youths speak English fluently, am not exaggerating am talking from what am experiencing presently and for your information do you know that there's part of Cameroon that speaks only English, look my main aim is that Nigerian ministry of Education should make French a compulsory, Simple!!!

sampsondeen:
please where did you learn French from?

hi i really like your words it sound quite like a native apart from some slight mistakes.well done

tosyne2much:
Iyen emi naaaa ? Oga oooooo

chocorod:
CEST FINI thats it

yeah right. My bad.
Merci beaucoup.

AreaFada2:
Miss, I'm not a philologist or an anthropologist.

But I will try from reading books in those subjects. Please consult experts or recommended books if you need this information for official or scholarly purposes.

I will list them with the earliest to emerge first, and the youngest last. In order of age.

(1) Anatolian: has been around since about 4200 BC. Language died/became extinct sometime between 2nd & 8th century AD (late antiquity).
(2)Tocharian: came about around 3700 BC. Now basically extinct.
(3) Germanic: by 3300 BC
(4) Italic: including Latin & subsequent Romance languages by about 3000 BC.
(5)Celtic: including Irish/Scottish Gaelic, Breton (still spoken in France by a few people), Welsh, by 3000BC
(6)Armenian by 2800BC
(7) Balto-Slavic by 2800BC
(8]Hellenic/Greek by 2500BC
(9)Indo-Iranian by 2200BC
(10) Albanian by 14th century AD

Quite surprising because one would expect Indo-Iranian and Hellenic languages to be older than say Germanic or Italic. Even Celtic would be presumed older than Germanic. But alas, Germanic is the oldest living Indo-European language sub-group.

Welch eine ueberraschung!

u know iM guessing u studied German or so. U dont know much about D language family.

enieme:
u know iM guessing u studied German or so. U dont know much about D language family.

No, I did not do it as a degree. I'm rather more at home dealing with diseases.

Though I studied various European languages, mostly Romance ones. But none at degree level.

I'm just interested in languages as a hobby.

Information about Germanic languages is not hard to get. If that is what you mean.
There's much known about Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch/Flemish, German, English and Danish.

Caleycash:
I guess ur right about Mali and Gabon, but there er many French speaking countries that average amount of youths speak English fluently, am not exaggerating am talking from what am experiencing presently and for your information do you know that there's part of Cameroon that speaks only English, look my main aim is that Nigerian ministry of Education should make French a compulsory, Simple!!!

I see you care about French so much..I don't want to further argue this

chocorod:
hi i really like your words it sound quite like a native apart from some slight mistakes.well done

please point out my mistakes and correct them

I want to learn

Coup d'etat - overthrow of political power in a state.

sampsondeen:
I see you care about French so much..I don't want to further argue this

Lol, guy no be so oo... u dey Abj?

Caleycash:
Lol, guy no be so oo... u dey Abj?

Nah..I dey Lag

why du'u ask?

sampsondeen:
Nah..I dey Lag

why du'u ask?

Am in Abj now, so just want to hook up with guys for the new year

sampsondeen:
Nah..I dey Lag

why du'u ask?

I thought ur in Abj, so we meet for the new year and jolly

Caleycash:
I thought ur in Abj, so we meet for the new year and jolly

Hahahahaha..guess I don jonze be that.
But it's aiit naw...much funs gon b in lag

sampsondeen:
Hahahahaha..guess I don jonze be that. But it's aiit naw...much funs gon b in lag

Hahahahaha no qualms bro