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- Title
Bilingualism and language use in the Nupe settlement in Ibadan.
- Authors
Oyetade, S. Oluwole
- Abstract
This paper explores Nupe-Yoruba bilingualism and its concomitants in the Nupe settlement in Ibadan. Significantly, it was discovered that proficiency in Yoruba is negatively correlated with age in the sense that the adolescents tend to be more bilingual in Yoruba and Nupe than their adult counterparts. Furthermore, the language-use pattern here presents a case of language maintenance, in that Nupe is dominant in the home domain whereas Yoruba is employed elsewhere, and this is not restricted to a particular age group. Finally, in terms of attitudes, there is a kind of split commitment to both Nupe and Yoruba in that Nupe is sentimentally preferred, but preference for Yoruba can be said to be instrumentally motivated
- Subjects
SOCIOLINGUISTICS; BILINGUALISM; LANGUAGE &; languages; NUPE language; YORUBA language; NIGERIAN languages
- Publication
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1995, Vol 1995, Issue 116, p61
- ISSN
0165-2516
- Publication type
Article