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Fulaman198:
The number of Hausa speakers are hard to gauge. I would say about 85 million in Nigeria, if we use the figure that half the country can speak Hausa, possibly more, then another 20 million from Niger Republic, 750,000 in Ghana, 500,000 in Ivory Coast, 500,000 in Cameroon, 400,000 in Chad. The other countries have an insignificant Hausa speaking population.

I would say and estimate no more than 110 million. That is a rough estimate. Correct me if I'm wrong, thanks!

So you think All of Niger belongs to Hausa by assigning all the population to them?

So where would you put Zarma-Songhai (25%), Arabic, Tamasheq, Fulfulde? ohh and Kanuri.

Mind you,, There is no way there are 85 million Hausa speakers in Nigeria.

This is very very inaccurate.
Hausa is not the 11th most spoken language in the world. Lies.

Fulaman198:
The number of Hausa speakers are hard to gauge. I would say about 85 million in Nigeria, if we use the figure that half the country can speak Hausa, possibly more, then another 20 million from Niger Republic, 750,000 in Ghana, 500,000 in Ivory Coast, 500,000 in Cameroon, 400,000 in Chad. The other countries have an insignificant Hausa speaking population.

I would say and estimate no more than 110 million. That is a rough estimate. Correct me if I'm wrong, thanks!

So you think All of Niger belongs to Hausa by assigning all the population to them?

So where would you put Zarma-Songhai (25%), Arabic, Tamasheq, Fulfulde? ohh and Kanuri.

Mind you,, There is no way there are 85 million Hausa speakers in Nigeria.

NPComplete:
Nonsense. Please stop fouling this thread with such unintelligent responses. I am weary of responding to such folly.

Nope actually it is modern hygiene and health is what has stopped people from picking food from the streets. Even in the middle ages, rich people were not having their baths and if their food falls on the ground they ate it.

Do u know that if u train a dog to eat from a bowl and in the house it will become very choosy about what and where it eats? The only reason u can boast about not eating from the street is abundance and training. If there were to be a famine now, u won't be any different from those feral animals u disdain. When push comes to shove, u will lose all this human exclusivity in which u are so conceited.

The only reason I am replying is because of other people that will come and read this thread. Not because I think u are smart enough to understand sound arguments. Cheers

Now this is a smart person.

Threebear:
So this one that looks like albino, dey kullabollo DJ cuppy

For your mind now, you don funny finish abi?

nobaga:
Itsekiri conquered a part of Lagos, Bini owner of Lagos, Igbo has 90 % of Lagos, Hausa has 50% of Lagos, Ebira has 25%, What about, Dahomey, Ghana, Togo, Sierra Leone 25% each.

Some people go choke on this Lagos O!

Hahhaha, I knoww right?

Francis5:
He is not a developer; he is a sophisticated brown roofer

Ok lol

Francis5:
Illiterate Nigerian Afonja
He is from Delta (Isoko by ethnicity)
And Isoko is related to Yoruba

Yeaah, right!

I no even mention any tribe name, yet the thing dey pain you like this!

Prophet my black Ass!
He is a DEVELOPER who has come to bring Zambia into first world status!

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Annnonymous:
Where did "kuku" and "kukuma" originate from abeg?

Yoruba,

Kuku and Kuku maa.
Meaning "Okay then" and "Okay then! do not ......." respectively

liohan:
She's Yoruba, me think Ilesha. Before you yabb me, ma papa na Deltan. I lay my claim there.
She's born and bred there. She left when she was in her 20s.
With what I have collated so far, the word oga might be incorporated into Yoruba. Or maybe mum's dialect is different. Just maybe.

Yab you for what? Your papa na Delta man you don't even need to lay any claim to be from Delta state, it is Your state, and whatever tribe he comes from in Delta is your tribe as well.
Your mum might be nominally Yoruba , that doesn't make her an expert in Yoruba language even if she grew up all her life in Yorubaland.

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liohan:
I don't think so. I asked my mum about oga. She doesn't think oga is a Yoruba word.

Is your mum Yoruba or a native Yoruba speaker?
Oga is a standalone Yoruba word meaning Boss/Master/Leader. Just ask about.

More to Add


• Oya - Yoruba word meaning "right away" i.e Oya na make we waka go.
• Jeje - "Take it Easy" from Yoruba i.e As I sit down jeje for that corner.
• Jare - No mind am jare (from the Yoruba word for innocent, but used in various contexts)
• Ajebo/Ajepako - Pampered person/Street smart individual or Local champion i.e That boy/girl na real Ajebo/Ajekpako. Origin, Yoruba.
• Še/Shey - Interrogative infix in Yoruba i.e You see wetin dem dey do now shey? or: Shey you eat winch?, Shey u know say na me sha?
• Igbo - Weed i,e I smoke igbbo sotey my eyes begin dey spark.
• Dabaru - Disorganize, destroy, break apart, rumple up, spoil E.tc (Yoruba) I.e Leave dem make dem Bleep up! We go dabaru the pace!
• Lailai - Yoruba word for Never-never a contraction of "Laye laye" Never-Ever. I.e Lailai! we no go gree!
• Gidigba - Yoruba word for a Big, strong and solid object. I.e We dey for your back gidigba!
• Ojoro - Yoruba word for cheating/fraud - The refree that Liverpool-Chelsea game na pure Ojoro man
• Olopa (Olokpa) - Literally means "Rod handler" in Yoruba, from the baton rods policemen carry around. Now widely used in Pidgin
• Omo - Little chlld - Usually used to express camaraderie or some sort of acquaintance. i.e Omo see that babe.
• Patapata - Complete / Supreme - That man na the Oga patapata for AGIP o.
• Shebi - (Similar to "Shey" defined above but different. It means Isn't it in Yoruba) i.e Come carry am na, Shebi na your Papa get am!!!
• Yakata - Yoruba word originally meaning :widen laps: "Ya Akata" (Now used in various contexts). I.e See as she sleep open leg yakata.
• Jõ/Joor - Please (in Yoruba) i.e Abeg free me joor.
• Gra-Gra - From Gira-Gira (Yoruba word for bashful or Shallow behaviour / Action not thought of well before execution)
• Tokunbo - Literally means "From across the sea" in Yoruba. Used to refer to a purchased item that is not factory new / used good resale.
• Ko & Ni - Kö in Yoruba means (Is Not), and Ni (It is). Used together to make fun or jest of a senseless argument from another person/party.
• Wuruwuru - Yoruba word for disorderly/disorganized. i.e This your assignment na wuruwuru to the answer o, I no fit copy am.
• Sha - Yoruba word connoting dissatisfaction or uncompletedness i.e I no like am, but I go take am sha. or: She no too fine but she okay sha.
• Nko - Meaning "How about this/that/those/them/" etc. i.e You don give everyone ashoebi material, me nko?
• Yeye - A Jocular or unserious attribute of someone or something in Yoruba. I.e Stupid yeye man! or Babe, your bf yeye sef too much!

Others I know that are of Yoruba origin are : Akata (A black person lost abroad), Ashewo (Lady of easy virtue), Ogogoro (A locally made gin), Shayo (Alcohol binging), Gbedu (Music hit), Pangolo/Kpangolo (cannister, metal container), Dada (Dreadloks), Shakara (vain aloofness, (Espclly of a lady), Agidi (Strong willed / strong head), Agbaya ( Shameless elderly person), Egunje (Bribery), Bokoto (Cooked cow foot),

If you no dey use at least 70% of the words above dem in your spoken pidgin ehhn, dat one mean say your pidgin na mumu pidgin.

Oga is not from ogaranya sorry.

Oga is a Yoruba word meaning boss.

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There is no Lola Omotayo to blame in this one.

DemonInSiege:
Lies, I read his comments

Of course you did.
Even the first one on this page too.

theDEVILisHERE:
Only a fool is audacious in Stupidity


keep bringing shame your people

speak to, and on behalf of your cohort and mates.

theDEVILisHERE:
If you are not Igbo you have no right to tell Igbo's about their words and sentences

You only make a fool of yourself and your linage by engaging in such act of stupidity

You and your people can go to your enclaves and teach each other whatever knowledge you claim know about yourselves, nobody gives a shit

Stop meddling in other peoples business

I can meddle in wherever I like, especially if such people are laying exclusive ownership to words endemic to my language

DemonInSiege:
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Asaba people only have contacts with the Benin Kingdom and not yoruba people

Ok, have a cookie.

Chukazu:
This is getting out of hand.

Igbo language has arguably the most diverse dialects..and I am more in tune with my dialect than the general Ibo.
Boli is Yoruba,has nothing to do with my language.

Rice is " Osikakpa" in Ibo

Did you call roasted plantain Boli while growing up or not?
It was simply an example.

You didn’t list any specific examples and weren't making any sense either.
Just made a general statement.

Which of the words do you want to point at. I never asked YOU about what rice is. Neither did I enquire from you if Igbo has many dialects or not.

DemonInSiege:
Yoruba borrowed words from Edo people and not the other way round

Lol a “few” Edo words of Yoruba origin.
Off the top of my head.

Iyan (pounded yam), Ogban (30), Aga (Chair), Gedu (Timber), Ewu (Blouse/clothing top), Iyi (Honor), Agan (Barren), Bata (Shoe), Ishana (Matchstick), Oko (Canoe), Ologbo (Cat), Itan (History /Story), Elubo (Flour), ago (Camp), Abe (Blade/Razor), Agbo (Ram), adugbo (which you people call “Edogbo”)-Neighborhood, Pataki/Kpataki (Important). Etc etc. Too numerous to enumerate here.

BabaIbo:
guy you no get sense at all...
you believed there is a word like iresi from rice abi..
there are words like osikapa, shinkapa... but you're claiming kpomo which does not have any literal or written relationship with the way yoruba words are written as your own... wait your forefathers they rear cow?

igbos are even closer to the source of the cow than your folks... Ebonyi, Enugu are closer to the source than any yoruba state* don't come and list kwara and kogi because they are north central... you don't rear cow or have any sign of rearing cow on your past but you are claiming a word that you can't justify using your yoruba syllable rules

Low IQ post not worth any dignified reply.

Chukazu:
All of them.

I grew up using those words , before I ever stepped my foot on Yoruba land.

Am sure the Same goes to any Ibo man dead or alive, so when you say" borrowed"... maybe I need to wake up my ancestors from grave to confirm, that's if Dem body never rust finish

Be specific!
Which words that’s what I meant.

You can’t say “ohh this word can’t have been borrowed or infused into my language sometime in history simply because I grew up using them” that isn’t an argument.

I grew up calling rice- Iresi, yet it is a borrowed terminology from english.

What is the Igbo word for Boli/bole , i.e roasted plantain?

Didn’t you grow up simply calling it bole?

The money looks fake sef

BabaIbo:
it's neither Yoruba FYI, it's just a Nigerian word... with various names like kpomo, ponmo, kanda, tinko... yorubas don't call it kpomo, they call it ponmo and it's not specific to any tribe...

Stop lying through your teeth!
DemonInSiege I hope you can now see him in full action denying the Yoruba origin of that word , and now ascribing it to “Nigerian” in order to neutralize its actual origin. lol

Keep decieving yourelf, Kpomo:Pomo however you chose to spell it is Yoruba, Tinko and Kanda are Northern.

I’m outta here jare.

Probz:
All I know is egwu’s igbo and egun’s Yoruba. It’s an Ebe Okwute vs. Abeokuta-type scenario. I know egwu’s deeply rooted in Igboland.

You won’t get any arguments from me that Yoruba language and culture’s more influential than Igbo culture though. I’m not one of them. Spade’s a spade.

lol
I have only heard delta Igbos and maybe some of Anambra call masquerade Egwu, some even use Egwugwu!

Every other Igbo goes to their village to celebrate mmanwu.

BabaIbo:
don't miss tribes together,

eh eh is an hausa word for yes and ahh ahh is their no...

igbos use ehhn ehhn to say yes, what, meaning, even it's also used for no e.t.c

I would have stopped replying your quotes because you're a liar but on a second thought I let it go because it is for fun n knowledge... of that guy didn't go tru the thread you would have made him believe another thing...oniro oshi jati jati

I think your brain is confused due to the mixing together of too many Nigerian languages in your upstairs, but unfortunately, all at 15% proficiency.

Where would it be located?

BabaIbo:
Can you swear or quote the post I said categorically that it's igbos that own it, what I emphasize on was that igbos call it various names like kanda, tinko, kpomo... I criticized you when you asked some one to give you the Igbo pronunciation of it, by saying is there any yoruba word that has kp sound in it but you couldn't answer... the only thing we argued on I said it's Igbo relating to cow hide or skin is tinko which I said was gotten from the sound it gives when chewing it

Not too late to answer.
Kpomo isn’t Igbo, simple as ABC. Something you could have agreed with wwaaay back and moved on - is what you are now being forced to reluctantly accept now.

BabaIbo:
smh4u... Is there any standard spelling of a word like ehhhhhn, which Yoruba words end like that please?

let's be sincere, is it rara abi which one?

but you can draw mpa as mmmppaaa! when calling out

Yes there is a standard spelling of ehhhhn!

Ehhhn! Sounds fifferent different from eeeeh!
One is interrogative or affirmative while the orher is an exclamation.

There might be no distinction in Igbo but in Yoruba, there exists such differences.

There is also uhhhhn? Or ahn ahn?!

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Rara means No in Yoruba.
Ehn ehn! also means no if you don’t want to talk.

DemonInSiege:
He said you pronounced it ponmo and not kpomo, show me where he laid claim that it's Igbo

He said that was the “igbo spelling” of a word that isn’t even igbo. Instead of just simply agreeing that it had never been Igbo.

He went further to state that Kpomo was one of the various names that Igbos call hide/meat including others like tinko and Kanda which he claims they pack from the north- This was even after he had been admonished by a fellow Igbo sister that kpomo was never a pooular food item in the east until fairly rexently.