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2019 8 002 NJSTR

The cultural heritage of the Nigerian people is gradually going extinct as the growing generation is being brought up to speak foreign languages at the neglect of their native or indigenous language. Native languages which remain the most viable cultural identity factor must therefore be preserved. Preservation of our culture definitely includes the preservation of its domain knowledge. Ontology is a veritable tool in computing for representing, and thus preserving, domain knowledge for both human and machine processing. This paper builds a foundational ontology for Nigerian languages and trib…