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Multilinguisme et education au Nigeria (Multilingualism and Education in Nigeria).

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Brann, Conrad Max Benedict – 1978

The linguistic situation in Nigeria might be represented as a pyramid with a base composed of 400-500 native languages of which about 100 have been alphabetized. Of these, 51 with more than 100,000 speakers each, are considered regional languages; ten, with more than 1 million speakers each, are considered inter-regional languages; and three…

Descriptors: African Languages, Arabic, Bilingualism, Educational Change

Kriol of North Australia: A Language Coming of Age. Work Papers of SIL-AAB, Series A, Volume 10.

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Sandefur, John R. – 1986

A study of North Australia's Kriol language situation identifies the language, its speakers, its functions, and the sociopolitical factors in its emergence as an autonomous language. The first chapter reviews the development of the linguistic field concerning pidgins and creoles, looking especially at the concepts developed to explain the rise and…

Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Bilingualism, Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics