Nigeria: 'More Than 400 Nigerian Indigenous Languages Are Endangered' (fwd link)

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Nigeria: 'More Than 400 Nigerian Indigenous Languages Are Endangered'26
FEBRUARY 2014

Abuja — Prof. Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche, the President of Linguistic
Association of Nigeria (LAN), on Tuesday in Abuja, said about 400 Nigerian
indigenous languages were endangered.

Ohiri-Aniche made the disclosure at the UNESCO International Mother
Language Day Celebration organised by the Ministry of Education in
collaboration with LAN entitled; "Local Languages for Global Citizenship:
Spotlight on Science."

She said the languages were endangered due to past neglect and denigration,
adding that some languages had already become extinct, while 152 languages
were on the verge of being extinct.
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