Publications

Publication details [#11819]

Adegbija, Efurosibina. 1997. The Identity, Survival, and Promotion of Minority Languages in Nigeria. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 125 : 5–27. 23 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language maintenance | language policy | language politics | minority language

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

It is observed that as a result of Nigerian language policy, maintenance of minority languages is not encouraged, even though language maintenance may prove to be a central element to Nigerian national development.