Multicultural aspects of name and naming in Nigeria: a sociolinguistic study

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Nigeria is a heterogeneous country that comprises about 450 ethnolinguistic speech communities. These are divided into thirty-six states and three major linguistic groups: Hausa in the North, Yoruba in the West and Igbo in the East. Due to its ethnic diversity, cross-cultural contacts with the Trans-Saharan trade of the 8th century as well as colonization, the Nigerian naming system received an impetus of assimilating lots of foreign words into its lexicon. This study considers such multicultural names with the aim of unearthing their sociolinguistic imports.

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