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ERIC ED012924: LANGUAGE, ETHNIC IDENTITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA.

THE INHABITANTS OF THE OIL RIVERS OR RIVERS SECTION OF SOUTHERN NIGERIA ARE DIVIDED BY HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, AND LANGUAGE INTO TWO GROUPS--THE COASTAL PEOPLES AND THE HINTERLAND PEOPLES. COASTAL DIALECTS BELONG TO THE IJO GROUP OF LANGUAGES WHILE THE HINTERLAND DIALECTS ARE OF ANOTHER LANGUAGE FAMILY. DURING THE 19TH CENTURY THE HINTERLAND PEOPLES WERE POLITICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DOMINATED BY THE COASTAL PEOPLE AND THE LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY THE VARIOUS GROUPS DEMONSTRATED (1) A HIGH INCIDENCE OF BILINGUALISM IN THE HINTERLAND NOT PARALLELED BY SIMILAR BILINGUALISM ON THE COAST, (2) A HIGH INCIDEN…

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Source	Internet Archive
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	ERIC
Date	1967-01-01
Type	texts
Details	ia title
Found at	https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED012924
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Record ID	`internet-archive:ERIC_ED012924`

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ERIC ED012924: LANGUAGE, ETHNIC IDENTITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA.. Internet Archive, 1967. Vero Archive, record internet-archive:ERIC_ED012924.