Language Endangerment in Nigeria: Perspectives on Akoko Languages of the Southwest

Oyetade, Solomon O.

doi:10.1515/ijsl.2007.021

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“…The converse is likely to be the case since these people speak Yoruba as their second language and they are as proficient in Yoruba as they are in their native languages. In fact, Oyetade (2007) reports that some of them, especially the youths, are more proficient in Yoruba than their various Akokoid languages.…”

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“…Let us discuss them one after the other. In the first place, these people regard their ancestral home as Ilé-Ifẹ$ (Beely 1934;Babalola 1984;Abiodun 2000;Akere 1982;Oyetade 2007& Dada 2006. As a result of this, they consider Yorùbá as a mark of identification and link with their ancestral home.…”

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“…Apart from these two factors, we explained above that, speakers of these Akokoid speech forms are bilingual in Yorùbá and their respective Akoko languages. This has been extensively discussed in Oyetade (2007).…”

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Lexical Variation in Akokoid

Oludare

2014

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Language contact among Akokoid, Yoruboid and Edoid has resulted in extensive borrowing from Yoruboid and Edoid to Akokoid. Thus, the speech forms subsumed under Akokoid exhibit lexical items which are similar to Yoruboid and Edoid. To the best of our knowledge, no other scholarly work has addressed the concept 'lexical variation in these speech forms, hence, the need for this present effort. Twenty lexical items were carefully selected for analysis in this paper. Data were elicited from 34 informants who are competent speakers of Akokoid. Apart from the linguistic data, these informants, including traditional rulers, supplied us with historical facts about the migration patterns of the progenitors of Akokoid. The historical facts coupled with the linguistic data helped us to arrive at the conclusion that some of the words used in contemporary Akokoid found their way into Akokoid as a result of the contact between Akokoid and their neighbours, Yoruboid and Edoid.

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Lexical Variation in Akokoid

Oludare

2014

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“…Besides, a pass in Yoruba hardly gives the students any advantage, except those who may wish to study the language at a higher level, and such students are always very few. The high response of very competent in spoken Yoruba 137 (55.92) may be attributed to the use of the language often with parents 135 (55.10) as against the frequent use of English 92 (37.55) and also the frequent use of the language with friends 105 (42.86) (cf Oyetade, 2007). The very competent use of spoken Yoruba does not translate to same in written Yoruba and this may be due to the fact that oracy is not really a mark of literacy.…”

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Language pattern of Yoruba-English teenage school-going bilinguals in southwest Nigeria: Impact on the English language and suggestions for language planning

Owolabi

2014

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As in many parts of the world, bilingualism is a common speech phenonmenon in Southwest Nigeria as many who have had exposure to western education are exposed to both Yoruba and English at about the same time and in the same environment. While Yoruba is the Mother Tongue, the English language is both the nations official as well as the second language and, by extention, the language common to many in this part of the countrys geopolitical zone. As the official language of education, the English language now faces serious challenges as it competes, in so many domains, with Yoruba, the language of the immediate environment, thus impinging negatively on the effectiveness of the use of the English language. The study is both a survey and descriptive using a simple questionnaire for the survey. The findings show a shift from the indigenous language to English,but the preference for English does not translate to mastery of the language. Results from public examinations indicate that the contact between the two languages affects the effective use of the English, which is the nations official language in schools. The study recommends, for the purpose of language planning, a tripartite lingustic model, with multilingualism at the base, for cultural matters, interpersonal communication in local trade and phatic communion; regional/geopolitical zone bilingualism in the middle of the pyramid, with the whole model peaking and coalescing at national monolingualism in a pyramidal form, with English retaining its prsent position at the peak of the pyramid.

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“…Based on Arokoyo's (2010) claim that varying degree of phonological, lexical and grammatical differences are noted in the dialects of Yoruba, and Oyetade's (2007) classification that Ìkàré ̣ À kókó belongs to the Yoruboid language of the varieties in Akokoland instead of the Akokoid varieties, this paper aims to fill such vacuum by determining the level of mutual intelligibility of Yorùbá, À kúré ̣ and Ìkàré ̣ À kókó based on their genetic classification i.e. if they belong to the same language family.…”

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A Lexicostatistics Comparison of Standard Yorùbá, Àkúrẹ́ and Ìkàrẹ́ Àkókó Dialects

Arokoyo¹,

Lagunju²

2019

J. Univers. Lang.

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This paper studied the differences and similarities in the lexicon of Standard Yoruba, Ìkàré ̣ Àkókó and Àkúré ̣ dialects. We examined the lexicostatistics comparison of the lexicons in Standard Yorùbá, Ìkàré ̣ Àkókó and Àkúré ̣ dialects. The paper aims at determining the level of mutual intelligibility in Standard Yorùbá, Ìkàré ̣ Àkókó and Àkúré ̣ speech forms. The objectives of this study were: (i) to find out the areas of similarities and differences of the lexical items of (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.2 A Lexicostatistics Comparison of Standard Yorùbá, Àkúré ̣ and Ìkàré ̣ Àkókó Dialects the dialects, (ii) to examine the phonological relatedness of the three dialects and (iii) to determine the cognate percentage of relatedness among the three dialects. The data for this paper were collected from six native speakers using the SIL Comparative African Wordlist of basic lexical items. The numeral system, animal nouns and edible nouns were selected from the wordlist in which they were compared using the comparative method and a lexicostatistics analysis was done. The comparative method and the lexicostatistics analysis were used as the framework for Standard Yorùbá, Ìkàré ̣ Àkókó and Àkúré ̣ dialects to determine the level of lexical correspondence among them. The findings of this study revealed that there is a higher cognate percentage between Standard Yorùbá and Àkúré ̣ with 86.40% cognates, with Ìkàré ̣ Àkókó and Àkúré ̣ having 74.60% cognates and Standard Yorùbá and Ìkàré ̣ Àkókó with 78.90% cognates. This paper concluded that there is a higher level of mutual intelligibility between Standard Yorùbá and Àkúré ̣ than Standard Yorùbá and Ìkàré ̣ Àkókó while the level of mutual intelligibility between Ìkàré ̣ Àkókó and Àkúré ̣ is low.

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Language Endangerment in Nigeria: Perspectives on Akoko Languages of the Southwest

Cited by 6 publications

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Lexical Variation in Akokoid

Lexical Variation in Akokoid

Language pattern of Yoruba-English teenage school-going bilinguals in southwest Nigeria: Impact on the English language and suggestions for language planning

A Lexicostatistics Comparison of Standard Yorùbá, Àkúrẹ́ and Ìkàrẹ́ Àkókó Dialects

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