Survival Strategies of Minority Languages

A Case Study of ókó (Ogori) in Nigeria

Efurosibina Adegbija | University of Ilorin, Nigeria and Universität Duisburg, Germany

Published online: 01 January 1994
https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.103-104.02ade

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