Does it matter if Okunano dialect ( our mother-tongue) dies?


If I were to speak to my brother in our mother-tongue in a public place, this would be considered rude and bad manners, by Nigerian standards, at least. I think this is a shame, because by letting languages die we are letting a culture to die! Nevertheless it is good to have a unifying language. English has done this in this totally globalized world. Should we then let Okunano dialect die?
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  1. Okunano VoicesOctober 24, 2016 at 3:43 AM

    The world is ailing from an illness: globalization. The give-and-take dynamics of globalization have seen African states give away more than they've received. African states are giving away their language, their culture, their identity.

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