Ucha Jude Onyedikachi
Department of Languages School of General Studies, Federal Polytechnic Oko, Anambra State
Corresponding Author’s email: Onyedikachijude2015@gmail.com
Abstract
It is generally believed that when languages come in contact there are certain influences. Even though English has helped in creating job opportunities and making Nigerians global citizens, it has left in its trail a foreign culture with a damaging impact on the indigenous Nigeria culture. What obtains is a refractory perception of our culture, language, job definition, moral values, self-worth, and sense of worship, inter-personal relationship and respect for human life. This paper proposes the development of indigenous languages alongside English arguing that failure to document these languages will not only kill the languages, but will also kill the positive values preserved in these languages. It proposes that indigenous languages should be documented, so as to retain and propagate cultural information which is fast dying out. It is hoped that the current tendencies in indecent dressing, disrespect, sharp practices, senseless kitting and advance fee fraud which are considered as easy routes to success will give way to order and decorum, industry, creativity and inquisitiveness for superior knowledge driven by our culture and environment.
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