By KAZEEM AKANDE
The Centre for Redemption of Yoruba Civilisation Art (CRYCAT) has called for mass sensitisation to save Nigeria’s indigenous languages from extinction.
Its Founder, Mr Wole Ogunlolu, made the call in an interview with the Nigeria News Agency in Lagos on Wednesday.
Ogunlolu said that the usage of local languages in the country were already facing the threat of extinction, saying, “Something must be done quickly”.
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According to him, a man is a product of his society; your culture shows whom you are in language, dressing and general way of life.
“The use of Nigerian languages is not being taking seriously by many; this is a danger signal,” he said.
The CRYCAT founder said that the use of Nigerian languages should be encouraged from the family levels.
“It will be difficult to achieve effective socioeconomic development without prominent use of Nigeria’s local languages in commerce and politics.
“No country makes it when the means of political and commercial interaction is a borrowed language.
“China, India and other nations that speak their languages are doing well; we must come to this realisation,” he said.
NAN recalls that the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had recently decried the threat of extinction facing Nigeria’s indigenous languages.
Mohammed also decried the poor local language adoption level by the younger generation of Nigerians.
He then called for immediate stakeholders’ action to enliven the use of local languages in order to save it from extinction.
