If Yuroba kids of today can speak it, or Morroccan children can speak Arabic Why can't Igbo parents teach their kids Igbo? It's like the language is dying :(
I can't even speak it myself and I feel very bad. :(
2007-02-02 15:34:27 · 5 answers · asked by ♪♫ ♥ Da JoneZ♥ ♫♪ 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
thearthound's lol
Igbo is one of the three main tribes of Nigeria which mainly covers the eastern part of the country. there are many more tribes in Nigeria but.....I'm igbo
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2007-02-04 16:16:28 · update #1
Guess it is not just Igno that the parents are not too willing to teach. Would this has something to do with the white colonizing the country over a long period? it's complex, when a country is colonized, the locals will try their best to adapt to the new ways, indirectly giving the impression to their young that these new ways are superior. Over a long peiod, this became a norm, you realise that the Indians wants to become fairer, like the whites? About 30 years ago, the Far Eastern countries want their young to speak nothing but English. Thank God that these new governments now realise that speaking a foreign language only is not the way to make their citizens feel proud, one has to feel proud of their roots as well.
2007-02-09 19:19:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't find this to always be the case. I went to college with an Igbo girl, and she speaks the language fluently.
2007-02-02 23:37:06 · answer #2 · answered by C. J. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because most Igbo speak the language of their colonizer. Do you noticed how africans can speak english, french, spanish, portuguese and arabic but can't understand Swahili, Bantu, Khoisian or Xhosa? I KNOW THEY WERE SPEAKING WHATEVER BEFORE WHITES CAME THERE! THEY HAD THEIR LANGUAGES FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS AND NOW THEY ARE JUST GONNA LET 500 YEARS OF WHITE RULE RUIN IT? Sadly, their languages are going extinct because they have a slave mentality. They think white or european is right. Sad, considering how that continent has over 5000 languages, VERY DIVERSE!
2007-02-03 02:47:58 · answer #3 · answered by ¡El lobo del norte del fuego! 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i thought it was only me! i asked my dad to teach me and he said he will, but he never did. my father is nigerian, and he seems to not want to speak about hi life as a kid or anything. i feel so bad for him
2007-02-02 23:46:36 · answer #4 · answered by ipodlady231 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is an Igbo?
2007-02-02 23:36:58 · answer #5 · answered by thearthound 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋