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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

BBC Launches Igbo and Yoruba Channel Services In Nigeria

Two new language services have been launched by the BBC World Service for Igbo and Yoruba speakers in Nigeria and West and Central Africa. Their digital content is mainly aimed at audiences who use mobile phones.





Igbo is primarily spoken in south-east Nigeria and Yoruba in the south-west, as well as in Benin and Togo.


The BBC's expansion in Nigeria - Africa's most populous country where more than 200 languages are spoken - began last year with BBC Pidgin, which targets those who use the regional English-based lingua franca. It is primarily an oral language, without a standard agreed written form.


The BBC Igbo and Yoruba teams have also faced challenges to standardise their written languages for modern audiences - and have sought advice from academics.

From BBC news
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9 comments:

  1. Amanda favour20 February 2018 at 08:51

    Yes oh!. I watched it last night and they were asking some people to sing the national anthem in Igbo and what some sang eeh...LMAO ๐Ÿ˜
    This is good news for our native languages

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    1. Anonymous20 February 2018 at 11:42

      Hahahahaha, where we no learn am for Igbo. E go hard some how sha.

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  2. Unknown20 February 2018 at 09:15

    Great news...

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  3. Lucile coconut oil,carrot oil and black soap Abuja 0705960532020 February 2018 at 09:17

    Nice

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  4. Amanda favour20 February 2018 at 10:14

    I watched it last night and some people were interviewed to sing the national anthem in Igbo language. What some people sang eeh...LMAO ๐Ÿ˜.

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  5. Victor20 February 2018 at 10:43

    Very p

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  6. Victor20 February 2018 at 10:43

    Very cool

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  7. Anonymous20 February 2018 at 11:43

    A good one, but where is Hausa own o. Make dem no send us Herdsmen o.

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    1. Amanda favour20 February 2018 at 13:28

      Lol ๐Ÿ˜ @ sending herdsmen
      Hausa's have gotten theirs since

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