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yashau(m): 11:50am On Nov 27, 2023
๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ด...Swahili: 98m
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฌ...Hausa: 63m
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ..Yoruba: 40m
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆZulu: 28m
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌIgbo: 27m
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ผ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆXhosa: 19m
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌNGN Fulfulde: 14m
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฑBamanankan: 14m
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆNorth Sotho: 14m
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ผSetswana: 14m
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ผSouth Sotho: 14m
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฎJula: 12m
#StatiSense

(Ethnologue)

https://twitter.com/StatiSense/status/1229833181374881794?t=dgo4AIZYUGI4gYy4wDi4cw&s=19
yashau(m): 11:50am On Nov 27, 2023
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Dikastan: 11:58am On Nov 27, 2023
Guess work

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YorubaDemonswag: 11:59am On Nov 27, 2023
Some people who have used stati sense severally as sources to back up their claims will soon be here to trash thisgrin

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Paraman: 12:01pm On Nov 27, 2023
YorubaDemonswag:
Some people who have used stati sense severally as sources to back up their claims will soon be here to trash thisgrin
grin

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Oxbow01(m): 12:05pm On Nov 27, 2023
Igbo is not spoken only in igboland

It is dominantly found in equatorial Guinea, carribean Nations and others

You can search it to see

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Paraman: 12:14pm On Nov 27, 2023
Oxbow01:
Igbo is not spoken only in igboland

It is dominantly found in equatorial Guinea, carribean Nations and others

You can search it to see
Which part of Equatorial Guinea is Igbo spoken? Do you even know the location of Equatorial Guinea in the map?

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Oxbow01(m): 12:16pm On Nov 27, 2023
Paraman:
Which part of Equatorial Guinea is Igbo spoken? Do you even know the location of Equatorial Guinea in the map?

Google will help you bro.

I got no time for juvenile argument.

Malabo has indigenous igbos language s

The source has to Even add USA to a Yoruba own
That alone ruins everything about this statistics

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Oxbow01(m): 12:21pm On Nov 27, 2023
Paraman:
Which part of Equatorial Guinea is Igbo spoken? Do you even know the location of Equatorial Guinea in the map?

Igbo is actually the third largest spoken language/tribe in Equatorial Guinea.

Can be seen in gabon, Cameron and Caribbean.

Now do the research

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Couldntfigurean: 12:26pm On Nov 27, 2023
Oxbow01:
Igbo is not spoken only in igboland

It is dominantly found in equatorial Guinea, carribean Nations and others

You can search it to see
There is this proud Gabonese Igbo lady on TikTok
She said her dad still speaks Igbo language like the dialects in Abia state
I think they were the Biafra children that where taken to Gabon during the war and didnโ€™t return after the war

https://www.tiktok.com/@nwaigbonour?_t=8hi12Jw4ggH&_r=1

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Hez143(m): 12:31pm On Nov 27, 2023
Oxbow01:


Google will help you bro.

I got no time for juvenile argument.

Malabo has indigenous igbos language s

The source has to Even add USA to a Yoruba own
That alone ruins everything about this statistics
Yoruba dey USA,same Google will help you,even in Brazil, Portugal Yoruba dey there,but e no dey the source
Do you know where oyo-tunji is??

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Oxbow01(m): 12:37pm On Nov 27, 2023
Hez143:

Yoruba dey USA,same Google will help you,even in Brazil, Portugal Yoruba dey there,but e no dey the source
Do you know where oyo-tunji is??

See.... there's difference between indigenous language and migrants language.

Please when did Yoruba become an indigenous tribe to USA??

I know of Brazil but explain the one of USA to me

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Alaigbo(m): 12:47pm On Nov 27, 2023
As Igbo is not #1 ba ?;


Dikastan:
Guess work

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Hez143(m): 12:47pm On Nov 27, 2023
Oxbow01:


See.... there's difference between indigenous language and migrants language.

Please when did Yoruba become an indigenous tribe to USA??

I know of Brazil but explain the one of USA to me
for where I mentioned indigenous from my post
btw, Yoruba is not indigenous to Brazil

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Oxbow01(m): 12:49pm On Nov 27, 2023
Hez143:

for where I mentioned indigenous from my post

The thread is about indigenous language
Oxbow01(m): 12:50pm On Nov 27, 2023
Hez143:

for where I mentioned indigenous from my post
btw, Yoruba is not indigenous to Brazil


Lol. It's okay.

Yoruba is indigenous to some part of Brazil and Cuba.

Do research

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Baster: 12:53pm On Nov 27, 2023
There are indigenous speakers of Fulfulde in several West African countries, not only in Nigeria. It's now I know that this StatiSense don't know what they're doing.

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Hez143(m): 12:54pm On Nov 27, 2023
Oxbow01:
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Lol. It's okay.
Yoruba is indigenous to some part of Brazil and Cuba.
Do research
LOL,na the one's wey move from here during slave trade!!
Hez143(m): 12:55pm On Nov 27, 2023
Oxbow01:

The thread is about indigenous language
MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGES!!
Paraman: 1:19pm On Nov 27, 2023
Oxbow01:


Igbo is actually the third largest spoken language/tribe in Equatorial Guinea.

What type of nonsense talk is this?

Do you even know the location of Equatorial Guinea?

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Paraman: 1:22pm On Nov 27, 2023
Oxbow01:


Google will help you bro.

I got no time for juvenile argument.

Malabo has indigenous igbos language s

The source has to Even add USA to a Yoruba own
That alone ruins everything about this statistics
So it's Google that tell you that there are indigenous igbos in Equatorial Guinea?

Oya show me where you got your own source from Google cause I can't find it

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Dhury: 1:24pm On Nov 27, 2023
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Dhury: 1:28pm On Nov 27, 2023
Oxbow01:
Igbo is not spoken only in igboland

It is dominantly found in equatorial Guinea, carribean Nations and others

You can search it to see
how come igbo top fulfulde? How many countries listed below?

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YoungBlackRico(m): 1:43pm On Nov 27, 2023
YorubaDemonswag:
Some people who have used stati sense severally as sources to back up their claims will soon be here to trash thisgrin
Na their way grin. They'll tell you it's fake even when they've used same platform when it's in their favor...funny set of people. U sabi them well well

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Oxbow01(m): 1:48pm On Nov 27, 2023
Paraman:
What type of nonsense talk is this?

Do you even know the location of Equatorial Guinea?

Its located in Jupiter

Happy now?
Oxbow01(m): 1:50pm On Nov 27, 2023
Paraman:
What type of nonsense talk is this?

Do you even know the location of Equatorial Guinea?

Is it that you are blind or can't comprehend?

It's in the first screenshot I posted here
Oxbow01(m): 1:53pm On Nov 27, 2023
Paraman:
So it's Google that tell you that there are indigenous igbos in Equatorial Guinea?

Oya show me where you got your own source from Google cause I can't find it

My cousin brother resides there

Minus Google.....I knew of it before

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saintfieldcastro: 1:59pm On Nov 27, 2023
Statisense based in Mushin with office in Somolu, operated by Agb.ado Ronu ethnic bigo.ts is the source of the info! Lol!

Fulfulde(Fula) is spoken in over 15 African countries, same with Hausa.
Yoruba is spoken in Nigeria as one of the major languages, spoken in Benin, Togo , Ghana, Sierra Leone, Cote D'Ivoire as Minority language, and used in incantation in Brazil and Cuba in Deity worship.

Igbo is spoken in Nigeria as a Major language, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon as Minority language.
Hausa speakers are up to 100M
Yoruba speakers 45M
Igbo speakers 44.9M

Speakers of a language mustn't be ethnically linked to the language. Most Urhobo, Igala, Edos and Nupes speak Yoruba but are not ethnically Yorubas.

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YorubaDemonswag: 2:02pm On Nov 27, 2023
YoungBlackRico:
Na their way grin. They'll tell you it's fake even when they've used same platform when it's in their favor...funny set of people. U sabi them well well


Who no go sabi Obi people?

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Donaldoni: 2:53pm On Nov 27, 2023
Most spoken African language worldwide is Yoruba tongue

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VEHINTOLAR: 2:53pm On Nov 27, 2023
yashau:
๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ด...Swahili: 98m
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฌ...Hausa: 63m
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ..Yoruba: 40m
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆZulu: 28m
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌIgbo: 27m
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ผ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆXhosa: 19m
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌNGN Fulfulde: 14m
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฑBamanankan: 14m
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆNorth Sotho: 14m
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ผSetswana: 14m
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ผSouth Sotho: 14m
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฎJula: 12m
#StatiSense

(Ethnologue)

https://twitter.com/StatiSense/status/1229833181374881794?t=dgo4AIZYUGI4gYy4wDi4cw&s=19

This is wrong from the perspective of Yoruba. There are indigenous Yoruba people in the underlisted countries :

1. Nigeria
2. Benin Republic
3. Togo
4. Ghana
5. Sierra Leone
7. Liberia
8.Gambia and a minute part of Senegal
9.Brazil
10.Cuba
11.Trinidad and Tobago
12.Jamaica

There is also Oyotunji in South Carolina,United States of America which is an authentic Yoruba village. It was set up by African Americans of Yoruba ancestry whose main objective is to preserve their Yoruba heritage and culture.

Therefore,the number of indigenous Yoruba speakers worldwide is more than the partry 40 millions that you ascribed to it; it's in the excess of 80m+ as a matter of fact. A trip to Bahia in Brazil alone will convince you !

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KingPure(m): 3:13pm On Nov 27, 2023
That was not USA's flag but Liberia's.
Though I quite got the point youโ€™re making.

Even Yoruba language & culture are equally widely spoken & practiced in Latin America nations like Brazil & the likes


Oxbow01:


Google will help you bro.

I got no time for juvenile argument.

Malabo has indigenous igbos language s

The source has to Even add USA to a Yoruba own
That alone ruins everything about this statistics

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