Choosing an Indigenous Official Language for Nigeria.

Choosing an Indigenous Official Language for Nigeria., 1990 - ERIC

A discussion of the choice of official languages in Nigeria first gives an overview of the current language situation in Nigeria, particularly of indigenous ...

A discussion of the choice of official languages in Nigeria first gives an overvicw oi the nurrent language situation in Nigeria, particularly of indigenous ...

Choosing an Indigenous Official Language for Nigeria - ResearchGate

Adoption of English language as the official language for communication in Nigeria, necessitated by the need to find a common ground due to the heterogeneity ...

Choosing an Indigenous Official Language for Nigeria. - Typeset.io

ABSTRACT. A discussion of the choice of official languages in. Nigeria first gives an overvicw oi the nurrent language situation in.

Can Nigeria develop a new official language and dump English?

You see the real reason Nigeria adopted English is not because there are no options to pick from, it's just that English was a sort of divider.

Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo should also be official languages : r/Nigeria

Nigeria should have the 3 main largest languages as an official language along with english. It's kind of embarrassing how we have a foreign language ranked ...

Language Preference and the National Language Question in the ...

The theories help to unravel the perception of Nigerian Senators and their preferred codes when they have to choose between their indigenous languages or the ...

The Nigerian government is set to remove English and Choose a ...

Why not have all three as the official languages? I mean they are a three most popular languages in the country so it's only fair that they ...

Nigeria and the question of a national language - Businessday NG

This implies that a language has to fulfil the conditions of being indigenous and serving official purposes before it can be described as a ...

The National Language Policy and the Demands of Indigenous ...

Contrariwise, for Nigeria to choose only three out of these 500 ... Nigerian indigenous languages as national languages as specified in the.

Introduction to Nigerian English - Oxford English Dictionary

In Nigeria, English is a co-official language alongside three other indigenous languages: Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba.

English and the Question of National Language.pdf

... selecting a national language other than English will be difficult in Nigeria ... Nigeria could also have three indigenous languages as its national languages.

Linguistic Diversity, Nigerian Indigenous Languages and the Choice ...

Overall, 64.5% prefers English as the language of choice in several aspects of life while 29.1% agreed that the Yoruba indigenous language ...

Reviewing the Place of the English Language as Nigeria's National ...

It is so pervasive to the extent of endangering indigenous languages in Nigeria ... choosing from any of the indigenous languages might not be the ...

National Language Policy and the Search for National Integration in ...

them are recognized as 'languages of India' but this kind of selection has never been both easy and easily done in Nigeria. [12]. The second is that national ...

Multilingualism and Problems of Choice of Indigenous Official ... - jstor

languages: so has the Hausa Language Board done for Hausa in Nigeria. At the sub-regional level, the activities of the West African Linguistic Society and ...

The Roles of English Language and Nigerian Pidgin

This is because most Nigerians now tend to use non-native languages, like English and Pidgin, more often than the native counterparts in their official and ...

A Case for English as Official Language and Hausa as National ...

many languages will be chosen, how would the choice be made? Theoretical and Methodological Framework. Many native languages exist in Nigeria. The need to ...

Promoting Indigenous Language in Nigeria - UNL Digital Commons

arise of the indigenous language to choose out of the more than 500 languages. ... The place of indigenous Nigerian languages in National development. Research ...

Implementation Challenges of National Language Policy in Nigeria

The study found that the lack of adequate implementation of the language policy initiatives has given prominence to English which is ...