Language has always been used all over the world as a tool for fostering unity and giving ethnic nationalities a sense ofbelonging.Usually,ethnic nationalitieshave clamoured for recognitioninthe scheme of socio-cultural engineering, to avoid the backlash of extinction, which leads to loss of identity through non-usage of their languages. Many countries of the world adopt national languages because of their intrinsic and extrinsic values against the backdrop of ‘imposed’ foreign languages like English and French found mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa, which are products of the slave trade and colonialism. For Nigeria to have a veritable national language, it has to embrace language planning, which is a deliberate effort to influence the function, structure, or acquisition of languages or language variety within a speech community. This study used a qualitative analysis of the subject-matter. This enabled us to arrive at a conclusion that our inability to have a truly national language is as a result of the promotion of ethnic agenda by stakeholders. The paper concludes that for Nigeria to have a truly national language, the people must eschew ethnic agenda which has become the Achilles heel of the socio-linguistic engineering in the country.
The national language question has continued to be a recurring issue in the Nigerian sociopolitical context. This paper examines the role of English language and the quest for a national language in Nigeria. The paper pointed out that the amalgamation of the Southern and the Northern protectorates by Lord Lugard in 191...
The Vedda language, spoken by Sri Lanka’s indigenous Adivasi community, is endangered due to the dominance of regional languages such as Sinhala and Tamil in relation to the Vedda community. This study aims to investigate the history of the Vedda language, as well as language contact and shift, to determine its status....
D. Abeynayake· International Journal of Lea...· 0 citations
It is an well-established fact that the Mizo Independence Movement had been the result of ethnic consciousness and ethnic nationalism, stemming out of the realization of a pan-Mizo identity, inclusive of all Mizo ethnic tribes as well the economic hardships suffered at the hands of the Assam and Indian Government at th...
Zarzo Sanga, H. Lalengzuali· Integrated Perspectives: A J...· 0 citations
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of Africa's most linguistically diverse states, and its eastern provinces are characterized by dense contact among local languages, Kiswahili, French and English. This article examines how English is being incorporated into that multilingual ecology, the domains in which it...
Kahindo Ngelengele Joackim· Revue Internationale Multidi...· 0 citations
Abstract This article explores how East Syriac, the religious language of St. Thomas Catholic Christians in what today is the state of Kerala (India), became a key ethnic marker during the 16th and 17th centuries. It tracks the tensions sparked off by European missionaries, who tried to impose Latin as the principal la...
Vuk Vukotić, P. Sreekumar· Journal of Historical Sociol...· 0 citations
Since the emergence of the Nigerian state in 1960, ethnic politics have hampered the realization of national integration. It has retarded the possibility of national unity for the social, political and economic development of the country. Every aspect of the Nigerian state has been carved along ethnic lines which inadv...
Charles O. Osarumwense, Paul Jimoh Ojo· On Thinking· 0 citations
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