I was shocked to find out some West Africans I know can't speak their tribal language

[AbdiJew]

They only speak the English language.

They tell me it's common to only speak English.

I am not talking about the ones born in the West but the ones who came here and still have thick accents and their conservative ways.

 

[Ubax45_]

Are they really just speaking pure English? I'm thinking they may also have a mix of the native language(s) + English, a Creole or Pidgin.

 

[AbdiJew]

Its Pidgin.

 

[Beautylover]

Yeah many can't, my language is dying and will be gone in a decade.

 

[AbdiJew]

Yeah many can't, my language is dying and will be gone in a decade.

What's your langaab language again?

 

[Beautylover]

What's your langaab language again?

Bini lol most recent kids can't soeak or understand.

 

[Transparent]

they have thousands of languages, having that many is unsustainable and just too difficult to retain

 

[AbdiJew]

Bini lol most recent kids can't soeak or understand.

I think most West Africans in the West come from the smaller tribes. I Googled the tribes of the people I knew and they were all 1 million to 3 million tops. I found out their tribes by typing their first names lol. Imagine Somalis could find out your clan by your name.

 

[Transparent]

I think most West Africans in the West come from the smaller tribes. I Googled the tribes of the people I knew and they were all 1 million to 3 million tops. I found out their tribes by typing their first names lol. Imagine Somalis could find out your clan by your name.

abdiaziz leelkase

 

[Beautylover]

I think most West Africans in the West come from the smaller tribes. I Googled the tribes of the people I knew and they were all 1 million to 3 million tops. I found out their tribes by typing their first names lol. Imagine Somalis could find out your clan by your name.

Nah most in the West are big ones like Yoruba or igbo or Ashanti ect. Few minorities except for countries known for prostitution.

 

[AbdiJew]

Nah most in the West are big ones like Yoruba or igbo or Ashanti ect. Few minorities except for countries known for prostitution.

Are you saying they are part of the sex trade?

 

[Apollo]

Somali is one of the biggest languages in Africa with 17 million speakers.

In Africa, typically indigenous languages have no more than 5 million speakers, except a handful of them (Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa, Zulu, Oromo, Amhara etc).

Learning those smaller languages is more difficult than learning the larger ones as there is less content available online.

However, many Bantu languages are extremely similar to each other (unintelligible, but the difference is like that between the different Scandinavian languages).

 

[Bahal]

The Ashanti are possibly the friendliest people in the world.

 

[Coulombs law]

What's your langaab language again?

 

[Transparent]

bruh i totally missed that

 

[Apollo]

The Ashanti are possibly the friendliest people in the world.

mwah brwudhwa