... , religion, politics and other spheres of human endeavors with the plurality of its language. The African perception of life, religious believes, political ideologies, literary insights and thought patterns were best represented in these African languages as initiated by the African ancestors. This fact makes the use of language imperatively pragmatic for language user's better understanding. ... 's second most spoken language. The implication of relegation of African languages by these foreign languages on the African continent is an unfortunate loss of one of the paramount ingredients ...

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... are so diverse that they are different from any other culture of the world. African cultures contain many different languages. African languages range from common French to languages unheard of to most people such as Swahili. African arts are much different than American arts. Their art involves much more creative pottery, masks, and paintings. Africa has a very interesting culture. Reasons being the people ... English. It also concluded that 10% refer to English as their "mother-tongue". The most common languages in South Africa are Xhosa, Tswana, Zulu, and Swahili (African Languages)....

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... collected slaves and brought them to the United States. These slaves were not from one nation, but many, and they spoke many different languages. Some of these tribes spoke Ibo, Yoruba and Hausa. They were separated when captured and made travel with people they could not understand. ... developed but all have valid truths and have been extensively researched. First of which is Ebonics developed out of contact between African languages and English. The African's exposure to English was very limited and was most likely from the few encounters with indentured farmers on the plantations on...

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... modern languange has taken the name "ebonics". The word ebonics comes from the latin root ebon or ebony which means dark. thus, ebonics is the language of the dark or african american people. It has been tried in some school systems to acutally teach this "language" in the curriculum. This of course was a failure. This language does not come from ancient ... roots or culture. The idea of considering this as anything but slang is stupid. Many languages have come from other languages or the "father languages" such as latin and greek. but ebonics is the result of illiterate people who can'...

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