Title:   LINGUISTIC EFFECTS OF MIGRATION ON IGALA LANGUAGE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Abstract
The work discusses how migration of people to Igala speaking communities has affected the linguistic fecundity of the language and the researcher uses different instances of usage to express the findings. The study adopts (sociolinguistic) eclectic theory to analyze the data collected. The researcher made us of questionnaires, interviews and observation and written texts as instruments for the collection of data. The work discusses brief history of the Igala people, code switching, code mixing, linguistic effect of migration on Igala language, pidginization, linguistic diversity, linguistic social justice and language contact. Findings from this study reveal that migration of people into Igala results in code-switching, code-mixing, borrowing and pidginization among others. Based on the above findings, recommendations were made for a linguistic study of the effect of migration on Igala language for pedagogical purposes and for the avoidance of language dearth.
Key words: Igala, Migration, Language, Pidgin, Eclectic-theory

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Publication Date: 2022-03-03