2017

There is a growing trend in the world of languages going into extinction due to the attitude people have toward their language. In Nigeria alone it has already been reported that many languages have gone already into extinction while others have experienced langauge shift
and there are still some which are currently endangered. This study is aimed at pointing out the attitude of Esan speakers living in Ekpoma toward the Esan language. The Mentalist approach was used taken into consideration the questionnaire method. It was further gathered that the attitude posed by the Esan speakers in Ekpoma was fairly positive.

There is a growing trend in the world of languages going into extinction due to the attitude people have toward their language. In Nigeria alone it has already been reported that many languages have gone already into extinction while others have experienced langauge shift
and there are still some which are currently endangered. This study is aimed at pointing out the attitude of Esan speakers living in Ekpoma toward the Esan language. The Mentalist approach was used taken into consideration the questionnaire method. It was further gathered that the attitude posed by the Esan speakers in Ekpoma was fairly positive.

Among languages of Africa, Igbo is considered in the literature to give a model instance of vowel harmony based on the [ATR] feature. A record of the regular and the irregular examples are exhibited here, guided via autosegmental phonology. Along these lines, the present examination looks at vowel harmony and disharmony in Igbo on the premise of a corpus of exact information drawn from noncontiguous provincial dialects. The reason is to present empirical data to demonstrate the conventional depictions made on the basis of the standard Igbo. It likewise demonstrates that exemptions are noticeable, as instances of disharmony, which have not gotten satisfactory consideration in the writing, and would like to attract regard for them by concentrating on them. Inclining toward the autosegmental phonology for this record is down to earth as the hypothesis all the more exquisitely represents the inside constituents of the CV skeleton and the relative autonomy of a V-put as against a C-put, essential to the operation of vowel harmony. More than one vowel is observed to be opaque over the dialects, however share regular formal portrayal.

This study is based on the linguistic comparison of two different dailects of Edo language. The various dialectal variation of the Edolanguage was identified and their linguistic relationship to prove if all are mutually intelligible. Word list was analysed to find out if these dailects have a genetic and linguistic relationship. Effort was also made to compare the selected word list using parts of the bodyparts, food, nature, things, numerals, relatives, animals, professions, places and other lexical items. With these words list, cognate was used to determine the level of similarities and differences betweenthe two dialects. In addition, we used the cognates to showtherelationship that exist within these dailects, we also examinedtheenvironmental and geographical influence on the central Edoinfluence on the dailects that generated the slight dialectal varieties. Finally, the findings of the two dailects of Edo language showthat Oredo and Oza-Aibiokunla are not separate languages but dialects of the same language due to the 72.65% degree of their similarities.

This study is based on the address forms of Ijaw youths, A case Study of
Egbema clan. This research of address forms of Ijaw youths in terms of the
linguistics features that help the people in the region to achieve politeness
when addressing their elders and co-youths. In Egbema region we based our
analysis on respect or insult on agreement about the underlying rules of
speech and or social meaning of linguistics feature however; asymmetrical
exchanges where found where there were age differences or occupational
rank difference in the Egbema region. Intimacy was related to the use of
multiple names in Egbema clan. The address forms of Ijaw usage such as
general address forms, address forms itself, address forms by greetings, address forms by expression, by peer groups, by friend’s age mates, adults, youths and colleagues were all investigated. The method of data collection
in this study was to examine the various address forms, by written, speeches, greetings styles of addressing their elders and co-youths in Egbema clan, and the questionnaires and personnel interview were the primary source of
data collection. While the Secondary source of data collection include
textbooks, journals, magazines both local and foreign, monographs
linguistics books, research works of prominent writers, dictionaries and
internet. This method, with this we have been able to discovered that address
forms for Ijaw youths in Egbema clan is very necessary to adopt. The
Egbema clan studies, oral and personnel observation were conducted to
complement the role of the questionnaires. The address forms of Ijaw youths, a case of Egbema clan has been the focus of this research, I have been able
to explore the different strategies Ijaw language adopt, and with this studies
the following findings was made. There is enough evidence to show that the
address form of Ijaw youths in Egbema clan is very effective. My findings
and observation in the cause of this research is that: The address form of
Ijaw youths in Egbema clan is different and choice compared to other Izon
clans. There is proof that the control of the elders in the region is very
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necessary in terms of address forms. The use of address forms in Egbema
such as politeness, greetings and so on helps the youths in the regions to
know their elders and co-youths.