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LANGUAGE POLICY IN NIGERIA
- Authors: Borisova AA1
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Affiliations:
- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
- Issue: No 2 (2015)
- Pages: 23-28
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/polylinguality/article/view/13060
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The article deals with the sociolinguistic situation and language policy in Nigeria, which is very complex because English is official language but there are also more than 500 local languages. Pidgin English is considered to be a means of inter-ethnic communication.
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A A Borisova
Peoples’ Friendship University of RussiaDepartment of Foreign Languages Faculty of Philology
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