THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF THE YORUBA LANGUAGE | PROF. FAKINLEDE


Our language is our pathway to the transfer of knowledge from one generation to another. Losing our ability to communicate effectively with it means losing connectivity with our valuable past: the science, technology; medicine, philosophy, wisdom, literature, history; religion, etc. of our forebears. It means losing the economic advantages that derives from a language.
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