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Profile of the Language Situation: Idoma.

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Odumuh, Adama Emmanuel – 1994

A discussion of the situation of Idoma, a Nigerian language, begins with different accounts of the language's origin, referring to both local legend and cosmology. It then proceeds to a review of modern linguists' efforts, since 1927, to classify the language. A statistical overview contains information on the number of speakers of Idoma as a…

Descriptors: African Languages, Alphabets, Community Services, Diachronic Linguistics