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[Owavel’eNyandeni 🦦 @isgxoboulokuhle]

Used women's body lotion and face cream this morning I can feel the accountiblty leaving my body.

[SHERIFFUDEEN @TheMasterSherif]

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[🇳🇬 Nigeriano No Brazil 🇧🇷 @NaijaInBrazil]

@OloyeSomorin Same way you will hardly ever see FRSC or VIO stop danfo drivers. It’s always private car owners they go after.

[Dispelling_Propaganda @MaiandGCP]

This is actually a brilliant observation that deserves a proper answer. You are not wrong about what you are seeing. But what you are describing is exactly how languages disappear without anyone noticing.

Adamawa alone has over 40 documented languages. Bura, Vere, Chamba, Gaanda, Lala, Bacchama, Bata, Marghi and more and no they are not variations as you pointed out.

But most of them are slowly being swallowed by Hausa and Fulani because those are the languages of trade, mobility and survival.

So yes, your Borno security guard speaks Shuwa Arabic and your Sokoto okada man speaks Hausa and they understand each other perfectly. That does not mean only one language exists. It means one language won the economic argument. This is what linguists call language assimilation. The dominant language does not erase the others overnight. It just makes them less useful for daily survival until the younger generation stops learning them entirely.

Now here are the facts. Ethnologue, which is the world's most authoritative database on languages, currently documents 520 living indigenous languages in Nigeria alone. Not dialects. Languages. Nigeria has also already lost 12 indigenous languages or more to extinction. Gone forever.

The Middle Belt is where this becomes undeniable. Plateau State alone has over 50 distinct languages. Keyword "Dinstinct".

Benue has Tiv, Idoma, Igede and more. Taraba has communities that cannot understand their neighbours two villages away without a translator. Your Yoruba example actually proves the point perfectly. The fact that a Yoruba person can move across the Southwest and be understood is evidence of one dominant language absorbing regional variations over centuries. That process happened. It is still happening everywhere else in Nigeria right now.

Now I am willing to bet you have never heard of Hyam, Ngas, Mwaghavul, Berom, Amo, Buji, Sura, Anaguta, or Irigwe from Plateau State. Or Kilba, Huba, Bura-Pabir, and Chibok from Borno. Or Mumuye, Jenjo, Yukuben, and Wurkum from Taraba. Or Tur, Nyandang, Kugama and Taram further into the riverine communities nobody talks about. Or what about Igala, Ebira, Bassange, Bassa-Nge, Kakanda and Oworo from Kogi alone. I have not even touched Rivers, Cross River, Bayelsa, Edo, Ondo, or Nasarawa yet. You want to know exactly where each of these is spoken? You will have to tour Nigeria for that. And I promise you, this country will humble you in ways no map ever could. The 500 languages are not cap. Most of them are just quietly dying (Bura has an estimated 11,000 speakers with most young Bura people now not able to speak the language) while we debate whether they exist. And that is the real conversation Nigeria should be having.

[mignon @cuteboy1410]

@UnkleAyo There's a statement I have come accross "take all the wealth in the world and share it equally, in no time, majority of the wealth will be back in the hands of those who were rich ab initio" with very few exceptions.

[GNF (SMURK)🧳 @shootfordstars]

them hold person 86M for bank since two weeks baba dey complain and para at the same time, them say make him speak English nah once e tear customer care slap 😭😭

[SHERIFFUDEEN @TheMasterSherif]

@0xCharlota @Figma How can I get this?

[charlota @0xCharlota]

I built a multiplayer embroidery sampler for the internet. It's called Common Thread. 🪡

Built the entire thing in @Figma Make, first thing I've ever vibecoded with it.

Every visitor gets a patch on a shared canvas. You pick a thread color, choose a stitch type, and craft your art.

A sampler is a piece of fabric where you practice and collect different stitches — a reference guide and playground in one. They were meant to be passed between hands and added to over time.

Common Thread is that, but the fabric is infinite, the UI is whimsical, and the hands are anonymous.

The part I love most: you can snap any section with a draggable embroidery hoop and export it, framed.

i love how Figma Make is a kind of tool that lets you focus on what something should feel like, not how to ship it.

Made for the @contra x Figma Makethon #FigmaMakeathon

Try it yourself! /link below/

[SHERIFFUDEEN @TheMasterSherif]

@icekied You are very correct.

[SHERIFFUDEEN @TheMasterSherif]

@evagrin_ 😄😄

[USAGI-Rx @JORMUNGAND_rr]

How did Aang forget that he could earth bend and air bend here????

He made an escalator with Toph before, why didn't he just use that move again?

They didn't think a lot of things in this movie through tbh, it was a cheap cash grab.

[SHERIFFUDEEN @TheMasterSherif]

@Femi_OfMainland English

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

Powerful niggatry on display here.

[SHERIFFUDEEN @TheMasterSherif]

@girllikeelise Is Ilorin a joke?

[SHERIFFUDEEN @TheMasterSherif]

@topypopo @OrevaZSN See lie

[Ray Mond @AmberRayz]

When I accidentally select "Español” at the ATM but successfully complete my transaction😂🥳

[IDANSKI⛷ @Blac_nels]

Inbox paycheck, Rooney play 10
IRS Tax Refund, mailbox truly in fund
Bami ki presidential, Messi Argentina
😂😂😂😭😭❤️❤️❤️

[Ayọ̀wándé Adálémọ 🇳🇬 @wandyvirus]

You have not met these people:

1. A Yorùbá father
2. A Yorùbá olórí ẹbí
3. A Yorùbá boss
4. A rich single proper Yorùbá demon.
5. A Yorùbá lecturer.
6. Yorùbá children from Primary 4.

[AKIN-MADE @bibzyCarter]

Why are many unmarried ladies angry when when wives say they take care of their husbands?

What's the science behind it?