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Publication details [#29272]

Fakuade, Gbenga. 1992. Guosa: an unknown linguistic code in Nigeria. Language Problems and Language Planning 16 (3) : 260–263.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

artificial language | language policy | language use | multilingualism | national language

Language as a subject

Guosa

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0272-2690

Journal DOI

10.1075/lplp

Annotation

This paper deals with Igbineweka's proposal to use Guosa, an artificial language constructed from words and word forms in major and minor Nigerian languages, as Nigeria's national language.