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Peer reviewedFakuade, Gbenga – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1989
A Federal Government Policy in Nigeria aimed at unifying the country through the use of three major languages (Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo) has been inhibited because there are no teachers. Resistance from speakers of other languages to the enforced learning of one of the major languages also seems likely. Maintenance of English is suggested as the…
Descriptors: English, Federal Regulation, Foreign Countries, Hausa
