NIGERIA: HAUSA, YORUBA, IGBO

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There are over 525 native languages spoken in Nigeria. The Nigerian official language is English, the language of former colonial British Nigeria. As reported in 2003, Nigerian Pidgin was spoken as a second language by 60 million people in Nigeria.
The major native languages, in terms of population, are Hausa (over 80 million when including second-language, or L2, speakers), Yoruba (over 50 million including L2 speakers), Igbo (over 30 million, including L2 speakers), Efik-Ibibio cluster (over 15 million), Fulfulde (13 million), Kanuri (8 million), Tiv (5 million), Nupe (3 million) and approx. 2 to 3 million each of Karai-Karai Kupa, Kakanda, Edo, Igala, Idoma and Izon. Nigeria's linguistic diversity is a microcosm of much of Africa as a whole, and the country contains languages from the three major African language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo. Nigeria also has several as-yet unclassified languages, such as Centúúm, which may represent a relic of an even greater diversity prior to the spread of the current language families.
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[@ArthurFellipeRZX]

In Brazil, Yoruba is used as a liturgical language in Afro-Brazilian religions, such as Umbanda and Candomblé.

[@itacom2199]

That's so cool

[@satanshameer690]

Yoruba were one of the largest groups involved in the trans Atlantic slave trade along with Kongo people

[@vlachlemnmichail]

Thanks for this video, we all learned that these three languages don't have anything to do with each other.

[@jaycubes]

except they share the regions in which theyre spoken, and the cultures are often in contact

[@scarymonster5541]

Yoruba and igbo are from niger-congo family Meanwhile hausa is from afro-asiatic family which are related to semitic,berber,egyptian,cushitic,omotic and chadic

[@vlachlemnmichail]

@@scarymonster5541 so you're telling me Hausa is very distantly related even to Arabic and Hebrew? Wow

[@alyaly2355]

@@vlachlemnmichail Yep. Igbo and Yoruba are closely related. They’re both in the Vola-Niger group of the Niger-Congo language. Hausa is a Chadic language in the Afro-Asiatic language family. Which means Hausa is very distantly related to my language, Arabic.

[@kamrankhan-lj1ng]

U r very right!

[@jacob_and_william]

As a speaker of a Semitic language the only words in Hausa I recognize are 4, 6, and sky. (mulki, duniya, and amin are loanwords)

[@wachuku1]

Semitic’s and Hausa’s root for “four” are not actually etymologically related. Although, Hausa’s is distantly related to Egyptian’s. On the other hand, “six” is indeed etymologically related between Semitic and Hausa. Otherwise, you can find distant cognates of “two” in some other Chadic languages, though, which didn’t replace the original Afro-Asiatic word with one of Niger-Congo origin (e.g., Hausa’s *biyu* “two” is actually of Niger-Congo origin).

[@gandolfthorstefn1780]

Hausa is from the Chadic of Languages.

[@DanBaiwa-wm5pz]

​@@wachuku1so who's asked you all this questions?

[@wachuku1]

@@DanBaiwa-wm5pz Can you elaborate?

[@Petro6927]

but he didn't said that Hausa is a Semitic Language so Hausa is Considered part of Afro-Asiatic Language Family​@@gandolfthorstefn1780

[@juniorgomez7187]

A video comparing Mexican Nahuatl and Nawat Pipil would be thrilling!! Or any other Nahuan languages 😊

[@wonquin]

很有趣的非洲语言！我对yoruba和igbo差别如此巨大，感到震惊

[@ohkeydan6357]

Hausa =afroasitic. Yoruba = niger-congo(yoruboid). Igbo =niger-congo (igboid) .

[@blizzyb4078]

as a Jamaican, if you didn't tell me this Igbo man was African, @ 1:45, I could confuse him for a jamaican momentarily. Its not the words that he speaks, but the rhythm and tone with which he speaks. It sounds very familiar. I dont think I Have ever felt that way listening to another African language.

[@shueibdahir]

The Igbo Tribe were heavily affected by slavery. I wouldn't not be suprised that many of them ended up in Jamaica.

[@Bryn_Raschaul]

Many of the Igbo were actually sent to Jamaica during the 1800s at one point. One of the recent lineages to the afro-Jamaicans comes from them.

[@gandolfthorstefn1780]

Yeh! Got the Jamaican rhythm and twang.

[@haitianboym]

I TOTALLY hear it. This is incredible.

[@davidross2004]

Black American here; I’ve noticed the same thing with Igbo. Whenever I hear Igbo, it just sounds like “home” to me on a visceral level. It’s not the words; it’s the rhythm and the tone of voice that remind me of how some of the older Black men I grew up around talked. I still hear men who speak that way, especially in the South.

[@SKITNICA95]

I have thought that Yoruba and Igbo are much closer each other.

[@corysanders422]

I love this! Please do more videos on African languages!

[@Dimitra.Saltou]

This I was waiting for!!!!

[@emempeacenwogwugwu7068]

As an igbo person I am impressed how accurate the translations are.

[@leandroyasumura4377]

Is normal people in Nigeria speaks those three languages??

[@darkmax633]

@@leandroyasumura4377 No, they speak more than these three, but igbo, hausa and yoruba is the three most spoken together with English and Nigerian pidgin english

[@user-kp9of7re9q]

I didn’t know Yoruba and Igbo this different

[@larry6130]

Depends on the dialect

[@user-kp9of7re9q]

@@larry6130 thank you for your information!

[@wachuku1]

Yes, they are rather unlike one another, even though they’re clearly related. Yoruba is an isolating language, while Igbo incorporates a large degree of verbal agglutination. There’s only an overlap in 4 out of 6 of their pronouns, and 3 of their lower numerals. Igbo also allows some degree of VSO atop the base of SVO, while Yoruba is quite strictly SVO. Yoruba has nasal vowels, whereas Igbo does not. Igbo has ATR vowel harmony, whereas this is vestigial in most varieties of Yoruba at best. Their divergence points to a common origin many millennia ago. They’re not extremely distant in the family tree, but it’s not quite like the resemblances one would see between, say, the Slavic languages.

[@419OG]

@@wachuku1what is VSO and SVO?

[@wachuku1]

@@419OG VSO and SVO refer to the word order. VSO stands for Verb-Subject-Object (e.g., “eat I cake”), while SVO stands for Subject-Verb-Object (“I eat cake”).

[@theodorwinkrantz655]

I really like the sound of the Yoruba language

[@gandolfthorstefn1780]

Love the African languages. Can you do Fulani, Sudanese and Somali Languages?

[@ajay-kc3jk]

is hausa related to arabic? i recognized a couple words

[@nielsv.2167]

Yes, it's also an afroasiatic language, so they're likely to have some words and features in common. But as an outsider to both languages I have no idea how close they really are :D

[@davidy2534]

Yes. Hausa and Arabic are in the same Language Family of Afro-Asiatic. Hausa from Chadic branch and Arabic from Semitic branch.

[@wothin]

Yes they are but I think the words you heard were just loanwords. I could year dunya for example. That is probably a loan word

[@redwiresound]

@@wothin Exactly. Hausa is too far-removed from Arabic for cognates to be _that_ similar. But northern Nigeria is largely Muslim, so loanwords _will_ find their way in.

[@user-hnjga8is1zr6u]

@@nielsv.2167 They're roughly as divergent as Albanian and Sinhala.

[@mysteriousDSF]

Hausa seems easy, Yoruba is very hard, Igbo is impossible

[@emilrautila4710]

Can you do Swedish and Norwegian. I love your channel❤️❤️❤️

[@anti-minorizeranti-shita4249]

Nigeria has always been major.

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

Can you do “Zeeuws” dialect? It’s a dialect of Dutch wich has 3 grammatical gender (still mutually intelligible with standard Dutch tho )

[@kamnyechukwuekene]

Nee

[@matthewfurlani8647]

No definitions?

[@gyeongdongmin3781]

I somewhat heared hausa like japaneese

[@satanshameer690]

Though Hausa is afro-asiatic they're genetically closer to other West African groups compared to fulani who clearly have higher North African ancestry inspite of their language

[@tomiwafootball]

hausa are closer to nilo saharans

[@satanshameer690]

@@tomiwafootball they're genetically close to both youruba and kanuri

[@tomiwafootball]

@@satanshameer690 i’m literally yoruba

[@tomiwafootball]

@@satanshameer690 kanuri are nilo saharan

[@DanBaiwa-wm5pz]

​@@satanshameer690we don't have any related with kanuri and even to yoruba tribe.

[@ongvatanthitnhanh9829]

*Somebody help me with geography! Where are the peoples who speak these languages located???*

[@agalitev]

nigeria, in western africa.

[@lycanrocmare6345]

Lol, it’s in the title 💀

[@gayvideos3808]

Hausa is north of the Niger and Benue rivers, Yoruba is southwest of the Niger, and Igbo is east of the Niger and south of the Benue

[@hakanbjrnson124]

Within Nigeria, Hausa in North, Yoruba in Southwest, Igbo in Southeast. There are also Hausa speakers in Southern Niger, Yoruba speakers in Benin and Togo, but the heartland of Igbo speakers is pretty much entirely within Nigeria. Interestingly, the south-eastern part of Nigeria and bordering western part of Cameroon have both been home to separatist movements. The majority Igbo part of Nigeria tried to declare independence from Nigeria as Biafra in the 60s. War, blockade and famine quashed that. More recently, the Anglophone region of Cameroon has been trying to split off from the Francophone part, as Ambazonia. Conflict ongoing. The disputed territories of Biafra and Ambazonia are right next to each other. I've never fully figured out how Yoruba Nigerians viewed the Biafran attempt at independence, but the general mood I've seen among British Nigerians (many of Yoruba background) is ambivalence to disapproval.

[@ongvatanthitnhanh9829]

А можно у вас перевод, я же русский человек! 😇😇😇

[@sunduncan1151]

These sound like Tibeto-Burman languages.

[@ahmadsyarifudin6739]

Yes, right? Especially Yoruba, it's tonality sounds like Burmese, especially that tone at the end of sentences, not to mention the nasalisation.

[@amadiohastruck4331]

This is an imo state man 😂 drawing his speech

[@oluwadamilola6233]

Yorùbá and Igbo are related but the relationship is more profound in Nouns m

[@justaguyok8609]

False

[@ozgurorucongan4180]

I love the Yoruba language but Hausa and Igbo are wery strange

[@oluwadamilola6233]

Igbo sounds like Someone's who's on his/her dying breath

[@kamnyechukwuekene]

First time hearing this. I never looked at the language this way. 😂😊

[@jonathannestor6557]

Wow it’s just like I’m speaking my creole 🇭🇹

[@tonialbert333]

Please do Mali language

[@DonTornado]

I know someone whose father is from Nigeria and speaks Yoruba.

[@imnosy965]

@@kasyakyoubfgamindikisborat No one said it’s legendary…

[@T_J_]

Can someone please tell me how you would say the phrase: "We're gonna win; no matter what," in Hausa? And are there any websites that give decent pronunciation guides for Hausa? Thank you.

[@abumusfirmuhaji1259]

"Za muyi nasara; ko ma ta yaya ne"

[@T_J_]

@abumusfirmuhaji1259 Thank you so much! Do you know of any online pronunciation guides for Hausa?

[@gandolfthorstefn1780]

@@T_J_ The F.S.I (Foreign Service Institute) had a Very good Hausa course.Not sure if it's still available.

[@T_J_]

@@gandolfthorstefn1780 Thanks.

[@adon9768]

So Hausa look likes ki swahili??

[@lisasutherland-fraser4479]

Yoruba has tones?

[@MB-hh2dh]

Most of African Languages are tonal

[@TwangledRektAngle]

​@@kasyakyoubfgamindikisborat Your comment makes no sense. Not every language operates in the same way

[@TwangledRektAngle]

@@kasyakyoubfgamindikisborat In english, the tone in which you pronounce words might affect the message or the emotion, but it rarely affects the literal meaning of the word. In Yoruba, and many other languages, it does. In mandarin they go even more crazy to the point it becomes very difficult to tell certain pronunciations apart

[@chisomakam9815]

Igbo is also tonal, most African languages are tonal.

[@sarkuruteron4532]

Also these three languages in the video are tonal

[@andrewymcmb7456]

I can’t speak , read or write in Igbo. I only understand some of it.

[@hommeboy]

1:14 Nacho's.

[@asaayt6221]

[@arziwanalli]

Do Sabah Malay :)

[@amiruzfadhlan3478]

Hantar rakaman suara pada admin saluran KZbin ni.

[@InioluwaFolayemi]

Nigeria hausa yourba igbo mai kyau

[@AsylumDaemon]

Can someone please explain is Niger-Congo family real? And if it is not which language families Igbo and Yoruba belong to

[@jazzyj6640]

It’s explained somewhere in one of these comment sections!

[@chisomakam9815]

Under the Niger-congo we have igboid and yoruboid sub groups

[@user-ec8vd3sf4s]

it's in Nigeria

[@user-ht3dh5kc2p]

Apa Bata Dodo Eku Eshin Fila Gele Gbongbo Hausa Ishu Kokoro Labalaba Malu Nigeria Oluko Oba Pepeye Rakumi Salubata Shibi Tafatafa Ukuuku Wale Yoruba

[@user-ht3dh5kc2p]

Hausa Yoruba Igbo

[@user-ht3dh5kc2p]

Ɗaya Biyu Ukku Huɗu Biyar Shidda Bakwai Takwas Tara Goma Ọkan Meji Mẹta Merin Márùn Mẹfa Méje Mẹjọ Mẹsan Mẹwa Otú Abụọ Atọ Anọ Ịse Isii Asaa Asatọ Itolu Iri

[@neuseieiahn5164]

CHamoru plz

[@walangchahangyelingden8252]

Fulani language status: Dying.

[@beingchilling6018]

Do you know de wae

[@tomiwafootball]

that was so unfunny 😭

[@kisawisa1769]

funny thing is the latter two are from the same subsubfamily

[@Jackku9]

Hausa sounds like japanese And Yoruba sounds ike chinese Freak igbo L

[@UtsuhosanCH]

日本からこんにちは。 Hello from japan.

[@Hrng270]

Dɛn nɔto langwej dɛn we gɛt fɔ du wit dɛnsɛf ɛn dɛn nɔto sista langwej dɛn we de fa, dɛn na 3 difrɛn langwej dɛn we gɛt difrɛn ɔrijin. 🥂👍🫂

[@utvpoop]

I can clearly see some English Creole language here. Which one is this?

[@doridore1234]

Sɔm di comments dɛm de se Yoruba en Igbo dɛb de na di sem famili, bɔt dɛn gɛ distant relationship. En A wan fɔ ask, wetin bin ambɔg yu so fɔ mɛk le yu rayt di comment na Krio. lol

[@doridore1234]

@@utvpoopna Krio

[@utvpoop]

@@doridore1234 oh, didn't recognise that! Greetings to Salone and my relatives (not kidding) in Freetown!