Languages in Competition: The Struggle for Supremacy Among Nigeria's Major Languages, English and PidginPeter Lang, 2005 - 182 Using both qualitative and quantitative research methods, the authors investigate the issue of language conflict situations in Nigeria resulting from the contact of Nigeria's indigenous languages with one another as well as with English and Pidgin English. The study captures patterns of language preference with the help of a survey of language attitudes and loyalties covering five Nigerian states. This book provides essential material for researchers and students in Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics as well as for educationists and language policy specialists. |
Spis treści
The dominance of English | 9 |
Role status and development | 25 |
Its development and prospects | 37 |
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1000 respondents Adegbija Ajami Arabic areas attitude Bauchi colonial Crowther cultural dominance of English English and NP English in Nigeria Freetown Hausa Igbo Northern Hausa language Hausa MT respondents Hausa speakers Igbo and Yoruba Igbo language Igbo Northern Southern Igboanusi 2002b indigenous languages Katsina Lagos language group language in Nigeria language planning language policy Least number lingua franca literature minority language speakers minority languages minority minority Total missionaries Mother tongue Mother tongue Igbo Mother tongue Yoruba multilingualism national language Niger Nigerian languages Nigerian Pidgin non-literate northern Nigeria Northern Southern Row Number of 201 official language orthography political preferred language programmes promotion questionnaire regional respondents 20.1 respondents preferred Rivers dialects role Row minority minority Second highest number second language southern minority Southern Row minority spoken spread of Hausa Standard Yoruba three major languages tongue Yoruba Hausa University of Ibadan West Africa writing Yoruba Hausa Igbo Yoruba language Yorubaland