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Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by pazienza(m): 10:53pm On Sep 23, 2014 |
bukarmada: Ewu Gambia. |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by pazienza(m): 11:00pm On Sep 23, 2014 |
miketayo: Ewu Gambia, where did you get that from? Igbo language is as complete as any good language should be. When cultures mix,they borrow words from each other with the lesser power borrowing most from the superior. Most words we call English today were borrowed from French,latin when the French and Romans had influence over England. |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by bobkezel(m): 11:52pm On Sep 23, 2014 |
What do you expect when another man's language is made compulsory in schools, and our own language, an option. |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by Nobody: 2:51am On Sep 24, 2014 |
pazienza:bro...y must u insult??is it ur line of culture in igbo??very pathetic...SMH |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by Yujin(m): 7:39am On Sep 24, 2014 |
This is just pure evolution hinged on the law of natural selection. It is known as survival of the fittest. Most minority languages will go into extinction as acculturation plus inter-marriages gather momentum. There's little one can do about it- our effort may just delay it but never stop it. Even, traditionally known dialects among larger languages will be swallowed up by relatively larger ones and few new tongues emerge for easier communication among the people. As economic and political pressures mount on the populace, people tend to discard the mundane for the germane as they struggle for a better life. This progression is the fate of all living things. |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by Nobody: 7:46am On Sep 24, 2014 |
Yujin: This is just pure evolution hinged on the law of natural selection. It is known as survival of the fittest. Most minority languages will go into extinction as acculturation plus inter-marriages gather momentum. There's little one can do about it- our effort may just delay it but never stop it. Even, traditionally known dialects among larger languages will be swallowed up by relatively larger ones and few new tongues emerge for easier communication among the people.my point exactly |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by Ihuomadinihu: 8:40am On Sep 24, 2014 |
I will blame it on recolonization,language economic hypothesis and domination. Recolonization,i believe is a big issue in Northern Nigeria whereby the Hausa people have successful asserted their dominance and language in that area. Language shift and Language economic hypothesis was propagated by Maslow and it states that people gravitate to a language that puts food on the table. For instance,if you only speak Ajawa in a Hausa state like Kano,how do you mix up with people and earn a living? So these people tend to drop their language for survival purposes. Just like we were told that Ikwerre was modified in 1971 to look different from Igbo. It's just survival instincts,economic and political fulfilments. Language domination is a big reason for language endangerment and death,whereby Hausa has dominated the various meduim of communication because of their population and colonial emphasis on Hausa language. Near extinct languages can be resusitated by teaching these languages in the local areas and encouraging the few speakers to continue making use of the language. There should be an ernest effort made towards recording and documenting these languages for future purposes. I know i conducted a reasearch on this topic back in the days in school,i don forget the rest. Lol. |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by Nobody: 8:55am On Sep 24, 2014 |
Joavid:how r u |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by Nobody: 10:28am On Sep 24, 2014 |
Language is a vehicle for cultural transmission. There is possibility that when a language is lost that culture is equally lost. Reason: you can't explain your culture in another person's language. In my house, I made it a point of duty to speak my dialect (Igbo) in concentrated format to my family. Any person that speak English will chop canes-12 lashes. They (my kids) speak my dialect and Igbo Izugbe fluently. Outside my house, they speak English succinctly. Parents are to be blame here. And equally, bundling Nigeria into one country is another issue which didn't help matter. I stand to be corrected. 1 Like |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by nkem21(f): 10:52am On Sep 24, 2014 |
n dats wat is about to happen to igbo language. |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by AmunRaOlodumare: 3:05pm On Sep 24, 2014 |
While all languages are important and should be allowed to expand. There's also the need for harmonization of standardization of many similar languages (dialects). This is normal for any language groups around the world like in Europe for example (Finnish, German, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Czechs, Italian, Norwegian, English and you can include Russia and Hebrew etc). It was done in every countries and it is a normal process. In fact, only us 'poor previously-colonized' people use colonial/foreign languages as medium of instructions. It's not done in Europe for example. Where's there's many different languages spoken and are all developed countries. More about harmonization and standardization of African language: http://www.casas.co.za/ |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by AmunRaOlodumare: 3:12pm On Sep 24, 2014 |
^^I just want to add. That if you speak one of those endangered languages or dialects, the first practical step to expand and maintain their use is the creation of a monolingual dictionary. So if you're one speaker of those endangered languages and want to do something this is where the effort should be placed. Of course, you will see that when you create such monolingual dictionary, and later on bilingual dictionaries , will involved technically the harmonization and standardization of the language you work with. A lot information in that sense can be gathered from this active organization: http://www.casas.co.za/ |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by blackbeau1(f): 3:53pm On Sep 24, 2014 |
The only thing that will put an end to this is for parents to teach their children their indigenous languages |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by macof(m): 1:46pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
sirjohnson: Not exactly. As the Mexicans and Argentines have mixed heritage...native American, African and European(Spanish, Portuguese) |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by Nobody: 11:46pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
macof: |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by Nobody: 12:00am On Oct 07, 2014 |
macof: |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by christopher123(m): 9:11am On Nov 15, 2014 |
Dont we have these in south also... |
Re: 10 Extinct Nigerian Languages And What You Think Can Be Done To Save The Rest by oyatz(m): 6:39am On Sep 16, 2023 |
ababanwoke: Why can't we use both English and Indigenous languages to teach our children in school? The idea that English Language is the Language of Knowledge is very wrong and it's one of the reasons why Scientific Knowledge hasn't been domesticated in most African countries. We should translate Science , Technology and Engineering Textbooks into Indigenous languages and use it to teach our people. 1) They can learn English language for cross-communication. 2) Every Nigerian should be encouraged to learn and speak at least three indigenous languages, in this way, we will understand one another |
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