Linguistic Borrowing and Translanguaging in Multicultural Obollo Speech Community, Southeastern Nigeria

Historically, the influx of people with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds (e.g., Onitsha, Hausa, Yoruba, and Idoma) in Nigeria to Obollo from 1970s onward led to language contact and its consequences on an unprecedented scale. The influx of people needs sociolinguistic awareness as they...

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Main Author: Crescentia Ugwuona
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-06-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020929312