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Facebook CEO and founder, Mark Zuckerberg, on Saturday, the 1st day of September, 2016 added Hausa language, Fula, and two others, Maltese and Corsican to Facebook, making the social media platform become available in more than 100 languages.

“Our community makes this possible. Over the last decade, hundreds of thousands of people around the world have worked together to find the right translations for words and phrases in the Facebook interface. Because the idea of a “Like” in English may mean something different in Arabic or Japanese.”

The Fula language, also known as Fulani, is a non-tonal language spoken in Northeastern Nigeria and in a continuum that stretches across some 20 countries of Western Africa and Central Africa. Spoken as a first language by the Fula people, it is also spoken as a second language by various peoples like the Kirdi of Northern Cameroon.

Zuckerberg who visited Nigeria on August 30th where he met with software developers and ICT entrepreneurs in Lagos pledged to use Nigerian languages in offering services on Facebook.

However, on the reasons for the added languages, he said, ” For people to share what matters to them and see what matters to the people they care about, they need services available in a language they know. Some of the languages we’ve added don’t have meaningful presence on the internet.”

more @ http://www.exlinklodge.com/2016/10/ceo-mark-zuckerberg-finally-adds-hausa.html


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Great Job.

Make him add kafancha sef na him sabi as long as sey e no epp me or add to my account balance

Happy independence day to Nigeria and happy birthday to my dad

Bad news for our Jewish brothers. I can imagine them rolling on the floor and writhing in pains. First the guy came to naija without visiting us now this. Aaaaarrrrggggghhhhh!!!

How many Nigerians can read and write in their native languages?

This will make some of my friends who can't make correct sentence feel at ease

lofty900:
Bad news for our Jewish brothers. I can imagine them rolling on the floor and writhing in pains. First the guy came to naija without visiting us now this. Aaaaarrrrggggghhhhh!!!

Okay. Now please type all you have said in Hausa language.

thesicilian:
How many Nigerians can read and write in their native languages?

here is one , can write anything in hausa..

hey the fact that there are soo many hausa radio stations and books that should tell you something


better yet ask professor bagari

kishimi8:
here is one , can write anything in hausa..

hey the fact that there are soo many hausa radio stations and books that should tell you something


better yet ask professor bagari

Hausa radio stations are for listening only. Anyone can listen and understand his or her native language. But how many can read and write in it? Because without that having the native language version of Facebook on your phone will b useless.
I can read and write in mine, but my use of it will still be greatly limited since most if my friends can't.

thesicilian:
Hausa radio stations are for listening only. Anyone can listen and understand his or her native language. But how many can read and write in it? Because without that having the native language version of Facebook on your phone will b useless.
I can read and write in mine, but my use of it will still be greatly limited since most if my friends can't.

Nice of you to ignore the books part of my post, so ghosts are th ones reading the books right?

Go to kano or any northern state, you hardly can find someone that can't read and write hausa, even the almajiris, as a matter of fact it's one of the reasons they find English difficult to learn

Hmmm that's cute

Op Reliable source nko ?

This is a welcome development and promotion of the Fula and Hausa languages.