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The Influence Of English Language On Our Nigerian Indigenous Languages
[EXAMPLES OF BORROWING FROM ENGLISH INTO YORUBA BY UNILORIN UNDERGRADUATES] -
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Generally speaking, it seems unlikely that English will cease to be used elaborately in Nigeria in a foreseeable future. This research work therefore will find out if students in the University of Ilorin borrow words from English in to Yoruba in their day to day interaction and if they do to identify this borrowings. The sample population used in this work is 80 (Eighty) students of the University of Ilorin and these students were randomly chosen from four faculties in this University and they are all Yoruba language speakers with the use of instruments like tape reader and audio cassette. From the data analyzed, it is observed that the Yoruba speaker use their language predominantly during communication not only borrow in most times a single lexical item from English and in corporate it within their utterances. Code-mixing, as a sociolinguistic phenomenon, is a familiar practice through out the world, most especially among bilinguals who combine certain linguistic items is from two different languages. In this regard, it was discovered that language contact also result in borrowing from one language to another.
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]CHAPTER ONE1.1 General Introduction It is a
well established fact that English language has established itself
firmly in Nigeria thus, its importance cannot be over emphasized. Apart
from being an official language. English language is the rope that ties
members of the different speech communities together in continuing
interrelationships. It is the common instrument that they draw on for
socio-cultural identification. English ... Continue reading---
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]CHAPTER ONE1.1 General Introduction It is a
well established fact that English language has established itself
firmly in Nigeria thus, its importance cannot be over emphasized. Apart
from being an official language. English language is the rope that ties
members of the different speech communities together in continuing
interrelationships. It is the common instrument that they draw on for
socio-cultural identification. English ... Continue reading---
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