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| Onwuchekwa Jemie |
Languages survive and thrive when their
owners consciously update and expand them and pass them on to their children.
Take the nations of Europe: many of them are smaller than many ethnic
nationalities of the ECOWAS region. And yet they have continually updated and
expanded their national languages by capturing in them the entire learned
culture of Europe including its mathematics, science, medicine and literature.
This is no accident but a result of persistent application of conscious policy over
the years.
