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Speak it, preserve it, pass it on: Why Ghana must save its indigenous languages

By GhanaSummary Newsroom1 min read
Speak it, preserve it, pass it on: Why Ghana must save its indigenous languages

Hausa's historical roots lie in what is now northern Nigeria and southern Niger, and it is generally regarded as a major West African language rather than a Ghanaian one.

Ethnologue, one of the most widely used language databases in the world, tends to be far more conservative in its classifications and lists fewer extinct Ghanaian languages than local researchers do.

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