Publications

Publication details [#39523]

Igboanusi, Herbert and Peter Lothar. 2004. Oppressing the oppressed: the threats of Hausa and English to Nigeria’s minority languages. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 170 : 131–140.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language dominance | minority language

Language as a subject

English | Hausa

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper demonstrates that Hausa and English are fast replacing Nigerian indigenous minority languages in informal fields and situational contexts in which mother tongues are expected to be dominant.