THOUGHTS 001
“A person is said to be literate if he/she can read in his/her mother’s tongue, and write so that it could be read and understood by another person” –United Nations.
THOUGHTS 002
When a group of people live in a particular place and they desire to work in harmony; three things will assist them achieve that. 1.Talking or communicating with each other by speaking the same language. 2. Having the same ideas about how to do things, and also thinking that the same things are important, which means having the same culture. 3. Having good social relationship between people and having good interaction with their environment.
THOUGHTS 003
Anonymous writer states: “If you want to have a cloth, you can’t just take the threads that go up and down. You have to have the threads that go across as well. This is what it is with language and culture. They go together. Language is a part of the pattern. But the threads have to be put together to make the pattern. This is done through social interaction and interaction with the land.”
THOUGHTS 004
The extinction of an indigenous language is one of the biggest tragedy that a particular people might experience. The loss of language undermines the people’s sense of identity and original worth. Language extinction starts to occur when rules guiding its qualities are compromised, when quality speaking, quality writing is grossly or partially neglected. We can be speaking the language, but when it is not matched with correct writing, the language is on an edge of a cliff and need just a little push. Speaking correctly only or oral transmissions are not enduring as they are form according to the mould of an individual speaker. Oral transmissions are not guided by general rules; as everybody sits in authority to say what they want and how they want. So it boils down to the fact that, if we like posterity to inherit our language in a proper form; then we have no option than to speak correctly and more importantly write correctly. This will send a caution and plea to all those writing the language wrongly in print and social media. You are rather doing our dear language a disservice.
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