Dearth of Native Languages and Cultural Sustenance in Rivers State

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Udiomunu, Victor-Slabor PhD
Nweke, Emmanuel Onyekachi PhD

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The paper examined dearth of native languages and cultural sustenance in Rivers State.  It adopted the desk study approach in which academic inputs within study scope were sourced from the internet, journals, textbooks.  The paper suspects very strongly that if no proper machinery is put in place by both linguistic scholars and government, the dearth of native languages in Rivers State becomes potent.  It outlined the causes of language dearth or extinction, the nexus between language and culture transmission, and proffered solutions in order to averting the imminent speculation of outright dearth of native languages in Rivers State.  It based its theory on Academic Associated Role Theory by Bogucki. The paper concluded that language preservation through academic innovations is crucial to avert looming native language dearth in Rivers State.  Local or native languages have been under attack by international language intrusions and educational quests in the city centres.  In other terms, the wanton metropolitan pursuit of the Rivers State society has a major potential of deadening indigenous languages. It recommended among others that Linguists academics in Rivers State should embrace technology by making the learning and retention of native languages ‘virile’ in the social spectrum and that Government of Rivers State should develop workable policies of teaching some or all of Rivers State native languages in schools.

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Udiomunu, Victor-Slabor, & Nweke, Emmanuel Onyekachi. (2023). Dearth of Native Languages and Cultural Sustenance in Rivers State. African Journal of Humanities and Contemporary Education Research, 13(1). Retrieved from https://publications.afropolitanjournals.com/index.php/ajhcer/article/view/731
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