Synchronic approach to the study of exogenic changes in the contemporary Yorùbá language

This paper provides a focused evaluation of the exogenic changes that occur in the contemporary Yoruba language of West Africa and discusses the reasons and outcomes of such changes to the language. External or exogenic changes have been one of the major sources of linguistics change in the contemporary world. The current evolutions, where different languages come into contact with each other-a phenomenon known as language collision-often create a situation in which one language comes to dominate another. This paper examines the linguistics phenomenon of adoption of foreign words into the Yoruba language, the ways and reasons for the adoptions and the outcome, with particular focus on the massive incorporation of foreign words into the Yoruba language and how that might impact the language’s ability to survive.