With five Nigerian languages among the top 100 languages spoken worldwide, Nigeria is conspicuous on the world language map. However, a lot needs to be done to preserve the languages. KOFOWOROLA ...

LINGUISTS TEND to say that all languages are valuable, expressive and complex. They usually attribute negative attitudes to prejudice and politics. That is probably why no one has carefully studied ...

A MAP BOUNCING around social media shows “languages where the word for ‘mother/mom’ takes an m-sound”. It puts old maps of defunct empires to shame; scores of countries are shaded red. There are two ...