PIDGIN-CREOLE A TOOL FOR NIGERIAN NATIONAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

Emmanuel Chukwudi Ugwu

Abstract


Considering Nigeria as a multilingual nation and her problem of adopting one of
the indigenous languages without any bias as her national language, this paper
addressed the issues on Nigerian Pidgin and Creole as the only panacea to have
the long awaited common national language in the present day Nigeria. The data
collected were analysed with concept of descriptive method analysis and
translations. The work used accommodation theory as the theoretical framework,
and concluded with affirmative recommendation on a wakeup call to the
government, in other to salvage the situation.

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