Topic: How many of you can write well using your local language? (Read 306 times)

Omo, mk I no lie o, me I no fit write well for my local language o, even the pidgin English self, I never write am well or the correct English self talk more of my local language, e dey very hard and it go really require person to crack brain before you fit still get one line well and if person check am well, dem go still see error for their although no be really our fault sha, na because say we no grow up with that, even for school self, they no dey teach us with our local language, na e make we find am hard to read and write for our local language, na e make I like oyibo people o, some of them dey use their local languages dey teach them, na e mk some of the movie wey we they watch, them dey use their language to read and write, no be say they no fit speak English o but their local languages na their first priority.

All these languages na kznguat wey no fit forget even if we try to abandonam and speak only English.It has become our Lingua Franca do tey every where we go,we go dey speak this language,and we go dey continue to make other people know say this thing na wetin be our own.
We are Nigerias,and our language no go fit change nomatter how we try to changam.People wey really dey in position of the change no go fit doam despite the pressure dem put to try changam.
Our language,our culture,our heritage is what they can't changed,and nothing anybody can do about that.

No blame the OP as him start the topic with strong grammar wey we call English language, the problem be say our local board don dey too flooded with English writing and posting but I know say some piple just dey do things make e be say e different from some of us wey dey use pigin post, make una know say we no fit hide our mata as long as English language don flood this our local board outsiders must know wetin we took here, even if you no sabi use pigin post my broda na to try harder becos na our own language wey we get to use communicate outside from English.


My broda if no be pigin I no fit enter that native language to use am post oh... Na this one wey plenty piple fit say them no sabi and i follow say e hard to use my native language post...like this you don sell us wey no from your community...😅

Omo, e no really easy o, e be like na one kind difficult something for me to do, even to speak my local dialect well self, I no fit, although I go dey try to dey read well pass to dey write, no be say I no fit write o but before I go finish write one sentence with my local language, I go gats to mixed am up with English, but how I wish say dey go put am compulsory for the whole school wey dey for our country to learn their local languages as a subject, e for really make sense and also be of help, but the problem be say, for each school different ethics dey come together or dey attend each school so e go dey really difficult to actualized that, if not na this suggestion for dey good, that means we go dey able to dey read and write for our local dialect, even if we no dey perfect but at least we for dey try.

pidgin na our local language why we no go sabi speak am, like me now I fit speak pidgin well so e no dey hard me to understand wetin u na dey talk.
i no know why we dey use English for school dey learn we suppose to dey use our normal dialect dey learn which is vernacular (pidgin). i no know which time Nigeria go adopt English from white men self, na wetin make we dey use English learn for school.

we najia we don forget our local dialect na, now na everybody say na English dey want use talk and learn.

abeg oo najia make we try remember our local dialect like
* pidgin
* Igbo
* Hausa
* Yoruba

I can speak my dialect well but I'm can't write it as perfect as I spoke it. Our local dialect is only useful among our ethnicity, so I don't see the important of learning how to write it

Answer to your first question (how easy it is): 
Uhm...I'd say it's fairly easy for me — I can write (with correct spellings) and even punctuate properly.

Answer to your second question:
One has to learn to speak his/her dialect more often at home, have conversations with family members/relatives using that dialect. Also, asking questions about culture — the stories, folklores. Then try pondering on the pronunciation of words, the intonation, and their meaning.
Try to study your dialect!!!

Native language seems hard for people to express themselves in writing maybe because they are not used to it, but I think this should be a reason why we shouldn't use our local language which is pidgin to communicate in our local board. Let's emulate other people as they are communicating in their language in their local board. I think one of the reasons I prefer we using the pidgin English to communicate here it will make us to be more united more in the forum and for good expression too.

Me I like to use pidgin pass English take communicate because na for pidgin I dey fit express myself well easily. Both for furum and real life na pidgin I dey use pass, naim make majority  of my post na pidgin I use. Normally we supposed to encourage pidgin well well for this board, but no be everybody fit speak am to their full expression, naim make the best decision wey them make na to legalize pidgin and English for this local board so that problem no go dey. I no lie you, when it comes to reading your native for book, e dey very hard because no be wattin them teach us from small. If to say them teach us how to, I believe say we for dey chew like the wey we dey do with English.

government allows local dialect to be thought in schools!

In my primary school, I learnt how to read and write using my local dialect and that is what helped me to become very familiar in the use of m dialect. I guess it's mostly in schools situated in the cities that local languages are no included in their curriculum.

You know that their are platforms online were people are paid to teach others certain languages and yo wouldn't know the importance of being fluent at your language until an opportunity like this comes and you find out u don't know shit.

In the World today, learn everything wearable cause you don't know where it might need it.

Even I say we improve on our local language, e no dey wise we come show am here, bacuse if go write post for my language, how many people go read my language understand am, talk less of to even reply. If na pidgin we fit speak, but no be every body sabi that one too. You know say the country get plenty people we no too sabi speak their language for this our 21st century pass before, cause many parents no too dey gree carry their children go villa, and this reason make many of them no identity with home, this fit also be the reason why many youths no sabi.
We no go blam them, no be like say government approve make then dey teach individual language for school.

The ability to understand and speak your local dialect is so important that it can't be overemphasized, I mean, that's like your ID just incase you find yourself anywhere.
I can fluently speak my local dialect and if it were possible I'd also love to go learn how to speak other major local languages in Nigeria, because language has a force you cannot really understand

OP, i wish i can fluently speak my language i would have been happy. Quite unfortunate i cant speak my language so how do i expect to write it. Lol  . I guess am not the only one here who cant speak their local dialect. Anyone?

I dont think it is necessary to know how to write in our individual dialect because we have a general lingua franca which is the english language. Speaking our dialect is cool because it allows fluent communication between individuals from the same ethnicity.

99% of the population in our country do no write in their local dialect. This is because it is difficult to communicate with writing to people. It do not enhance communication so there is no essence for it.

By virtue of my position as pidgin writer, senior man , I hereby release the anointing to write in pidgin for this board as from now on. As you dey write am, e go dey sweet your belle. Recieve that grace make u follow us enjoy the pidgin world. Welcome to our world of ogbonge language

Well e don come to notice say we Nigerians we don too dey familiar with English and mean why nah borrowed language,yes. I really love good English but make we try to toon our language too.

Some many people for niaja just forget their own language like.
•IGBO.
•HAUSA.
•YOROBA.
•OGBA
• AND SO ON.
 All this languages and places we from,some of us no Sabi how to speak our dialect which is not acceptable. so abeg make we try for ourselves,make we no too carry English full our memories, with our language we fit know our brothers,we fit know where we belong,so abeg make we do well.

To write for local launguage is a no go area for me ooo, because our language  pronunciation no he here ooo. Even if another person write, e go dey difficult make person read am to understand.

Op this your mata correct ooo but eating happen to many pessin be say them don build their life with English and leave their language even many pessin wey grow for naija here dey find it hard to speak so called native dialect.reason been parents no gree them or teach them.butfor me I see pegin as in born that pessin no need teach pessin as long one dey speak English because many of our news dey on pegin example wazobia even other station dey. Just some of us no wan learn or speak because dey see people wey use pegin as illetrate who cat speak correct English anow just proud of using big word or vocabulary, as for me any how the pegin dey I dey follow up.

As for me, I go fit write for my dialect very well, but we all no say for inside this forum and our country na different dialects nai full for here. So the pigin nai every body wey dey dis forum fit discus wit wey we all go understand and know wetin dem dey talk about.

I guess you're getting the whole essence of the thread wrong or you didn't understand it.

I'm not talking about being able to write correctly in pigin. We all know that writing in pigin doesn't require a particular order or spelling guide. You do the writing which ever way you want and as long as the reader is able to comprehend what information you are passing, then you're good to go. That's the reason why we sometimes use slangs that could be peculiar to a particular region in our pigin and others might not understand but people close to that region and that are conscious of the street vibes will relate easily.

What I'm talking about is the ability to reading or writing in our native dialect like the one we speak in the village. It's always very difficult to read or write using them. For people that are Christians, you know they actually translated the Bible to our local dialect like the Huasa, Igbo, Yoruba and the rest and normally when you get to the village during festive seasons, they normally would ask you, like in my church to read the Bible for them since they believe that you can read, but because you've not been familiar with reading in your local dialect, you will tend to struggle with it.

There is every tendencies that each and every members in this Naija local forum would still have to participate on other forums which are strickly on English languages. I would keep saying this... Naija has no specific language instead it has diverses of language which English was adopted to be its unified language but due to a collective measure, series of the local diverse languages tends to be complied in mixture of the English language to the Pidgin English language so that it could be manageably fluent exercised at communications.

So if you ask me, I would rise to say that.... This pidgin English language does not have a specifications of its words to words rightfully spelling. We Nigerians just love to make things quick and shorten to arrive at a point so because of that, most of the spelt words in English language are cutten short to minimize the stresses of longer words and we believe having a rightful spelling in the English language is wastes of alphabets.
So, we are just good in spelling the words on how ever we could as long it profers an expected meant words in pronounciations.

This our country itself is filled with lots of language diversity and so many of these language are minority to the very core and if I can recall I don't actually think that most of these language are even taught in schools or even added to their work in academics except for the most genuine and well recognize ones. And that's one reason why most of these language aren't really knownable when it comes to people being able to write and understand the meaning.

Omor, make I talk based on my own self, for me, I prefer to use broken (pidgin language) because of say nah my language, but the matter be say, to write am no be the problem but to read am dey hard me sha.
And I see am say nai make many of us prefer the English language pass the pidgin language, just because e dey hard for them to read am, as pipo dey read English language with just one look but when e comes to pidgin language them gets to look am 2 times before them go fit understand watin the person dey try talk.
Although, some people no dey really write their pidgin language well nai dey make others no dey fit understand watin dem dey talk.
But to be honest, pidgin language dey interesting because you fit write one word with 2 different spellings. Like: dey or they.

Throughout my primary school, my school make am compulsory for every student, so e come make me dey very good for the language. But overtime i  dn reduce for the way wey i dey read and write am. Currently i dey read and write am but e dey take small time to make sense for my head sha.

For me i think active and intentional participation on the language will help. Dey curious on everything wey involve the language reading and writing.

You see as our local dialect d so, many people wey no sabi how to read and write with am as them d speak am so plenty. All this na because sae they were not taught how to read and write in their local dialect from school, till adulthood. What they were taught in school especially na how to read and write in English because English na the major and acceptable language give every Nigerian for easy communication since we get diverse ethnicities for the country.

We go start from the grassroots. From our family to the schools wey we attend(from nursery to tertiary). Let every family and school begin to the make their local dialect a compulsory subject wey everybody go d learn for schools. Irrespective of your background or the school wey you attend(private or local). Make every family take upon themselves to d teach their children on how dem go read and write for their dialect.

If it is done in that manner, we no go too d see cases of where so many people go know how to speak their dialect but them no know how to read and write am for book.

To write for local dialect go hard for of us Nigerians because dem no teach us from school how to write in them. Na d three popular languages for the country; Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba na him dem teach for school and no be compulsory for some schools and also for some schools you go just chose one to do and leave the rest. The concentration was more on English, French and in some schools Arabic. So our people find am easy to write in those languages and read fluently with dem dan d local dialects in the country.


E no easy oo and I no even sabi because d run dey very hard sef. I fit speak am fluently but to read or write am dey hard me very well. Dey get some books wey dem write in my local dialect sef, I no dey for read and understand wetin dem write until I check the translation in English before I go fit depict wetin dem write there.


That one na to make am compulsory from school, make e dey part of the curriculum for school and make everybody go learn him mother tongue as a core subject in school. With that, e go improve the writing and reading of local dialects too. So many languages in Nigeria go get people wey don sabi everything about the languages and go fit write am for books to be used in classes. That na the only way dis thing fit dey easy for our people to learn from am.

Omo any how you write your pidgin English I go still read am. Me na born and brought up 9ja guy. as even say we dey write Pure English no mean say person no ft write am for pidgin. I wounder wetting hard for oga @charls Tim to read and write pidgin although everybody no fit be thesame. For me, e dey very simple because as e be like this, for Facebook and WhatsApp, all my friends na Pidgin we dey carry dey chat and e don master me. Even as i dey type am e just be like normal English wey I dey type.

So make we dey try our best to dey speak our pidgin English since e be say we no get standard language like India or China. Our pidgin English be like our secret pass phrase wey na only us get access to am. If language no dey private that means e no get value again na. And na because of this things dey make Mama and pikin go enter public place them no go fit talk freely with there local dialect. Secret thing Mama wan tell pikin every body go Sabi am. Like as e dey like this we fit say we want discuss Something wey no nice, even all dose oga dem wey dey come spy us for here, dem no go fit no wetting we dey Yan. but if one person just speak Pure English dem don understand wetting we dey talk.

It does not mean. You can post in English or Pidgin. There is not rule that if a post is in Pidgin, that the topic title should also be in Pidgin. We all understand both English and Pidgin and we can do it the way we want.


That is not what I meant.

Example if I am chatting with a friend. Like: How far bro? I dey. Or Bawo ni? Those are easily to read fast. But if it is getting longer, like posts on this forum, I find it slow to read and there is more energy I put on it to read it to understanding. I can easily use both informally but easily prefer to use English formally.

It is not about how you use the Pidgin. I can easily understand but difficult to continue to read it continually for long.

This topic wey you write, I been expect say e suppose dey for pidgin English, I mean the title. Something like How many of us fit write well for our local languages. To dey honest with you, e dey hard many people to write pigin, let alone to write their local language. As Charles-Tim talk, him deh find it difficult to write or read pidgin because different version of pidgins dem dey.

But for local languages, e dey difficult for many people. But I for still write with my language. To write languages no dey hard me, but to understand bu be nsogbu no. Kwu obula ona adi, kanyi were forum ya muo kwu eji asu okwu nyi. Odi mkpa nihina umu nyi ndeke adi muo amuo. Ka okwunyi yara ifuni

Provide a poll for this because I think that at the end, the poll result may show that the number of people who cannot speak and write in their local dialect is more or almost more than the number of people who can speak and write well in their local dialect. The truth is because many people have migrated from their place of birth the other place is in search of greener pastures and better opportunities they get married to people from those places, mix up and sometimes even give birth and raise children in those communities where their language is not what is spoken as a result of this many children grow up in places far from their origin and then end up not being able to learn the language even writing. Parents should have this as a responsibility to ensure that their children always learn to write and speak their native and local dialects.

Well, many if us for real life dey speak pidgin pass English. That one na normal thing as a nija person. Our local language for instance my own na Esan, na to only talk to people Dem wey come from my home town. Most times you go see say na state government dey put am as compulsory subject for children wey dey primary school. This one go help them know how to speak and write them local direct well. The thing be say, sofa u Sabi hear or speak you dialect, writing no really matter. That one na because no body go force you write am for any where. Na your personal language. Even pidgin wey e be say na every body own for we country, no still dey compulsory to speak or write as a nija person. These languages na watin we as Nigerians know same with other countries and them local Language. If you go another country you go need t learn the language so you go fit communicate with them.

No body dey force anybody to learn am, na something you fit do out of your own will. Jus as I don talk am before for one of my post, English and pidgin na the two accepted language for we local board. So no you fit choose  watin you wan write and people go still respond. Sofa you fit write watin people dey understand.

I find it hard to read and post in Pidgins on this forum. Although, it is easy for me while chatting with friends online. But when it comes to this forum, I prefer English. I think it is because I read and write fast in English than Pidgin while this forum is not just a short conversion with my friend and me. If it is a long posts, I may not even finish reading it if it is in Pidgin, unlike English which is easy for me to read fast and clear.

English is easier because we were taught in school in English. Reading English from basic school to tertiary school takes decades. As we are growing, we noticed that we got better in English.

It is easy for me to speak my local language. Also easy for me to write my local language. But to read it is hard for me just like Pidgin. If it is conversation online with my friend and me, I find it easy for those short conversations. I even use with my local language to chart with people than they do with me. But if it is a long text, I will not even finish reading it as I find it difficult to read and that will make me slow to read it finish.

We don de advocate for the board say make we de write more with pigin as e be say na the general language when every nija person fit speak well but e still get plenty people when no de fit use pigin write as e be say some of them don de used to normal good English.

The average English speaking man fit speak and write him English fluently without stress as e be say na wetin them know as their language right from when dem de small.

But when it comes to an average Nigerian, we know say most of us fit speak our Hausa, Igbo, yoruba or Efik well but when it comes to writing in those our local language eh, e de always de very difficult.

Like me eh, I fit speak my dialect well oh but when it comes to reading an article that is written in my dialect or even trying to write an article in my dialect eh, na suffer I go de suffer oh, I fit even manage read small for my local dialect but to fit write de hard me aswr.

how easy e de for you to fit read and write using your local dialect?

    How we fit improve on being comfortable in the use of our local dialect?  I mean either reading or writing with it.