By Moses Darah The Urhobo Studies Association (USA) was founded in 2005 at Delta State University, Abraka, by a group of scholars who responded to UNESCO’s warning on the rapid extinction of world languages. Concerned about the decline of Urhobo in favour of English and Nigerian Pidgin, they resolved to revitalise, document, and preserve it. The Association’s first landmark was the development of a standard orthography, building on the earlier establishment of a B.A. programme in Linguistics/Urhobo in 2001. Since then, the USA has championed major projects: symposia, workshops,…
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