A few months ago, many people were upset that Google included Yoruba and Hausa in its AI language models while their own language wasn’t included. They argued it was marginalization because they understood that language representation matters.
Yet here we have a prominent celebrity publicly asking, “Who has speaking a Nigerian language helped?” That’s the kind of mindset that accelerates language loss.
Nigeria is a political state created in the 20th century. Yoruba civilization, language, and identity existed for centuries before it. My loyalty to my language isn’t dependent on whatever language the Nigerian government designates as official. Countries rise and fall. Borders change. Governments change. A people’s identity survives only if its people refuse to abandon it.
If the English, French, Chinese, Japanese, or Arabs had adopted this same mentality centuries ago, they wouldn’t have the languages they proudly speak today. Languages don’t survive by accident,they survive because each generation chooses to preserve them.
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