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In every culture, key things define and determines its existence and or extermination. The peoples’ identity is characterized by a geographical location, acceptable norms, oral tradition conveyed using a language and documented history. Once people’s language has been taken away from them, they become subservient to other cultures or languages that dominate them.
There is a need for the Ngas nation to have what I propose as “Ngas Language Advancement Center” Lis Ngas Mpwi. This is a drive to keep the Ngas language evolving and relevant in today’s world that is dynamic and ever changing. The Ngas Language Advancement Center should be a collection of a group of Ngas people of repute (possibly one person from every district) who will come up with new words every year, possibly around the Pundung Festival. The adoption of these new words will then be integrated into our contemporary Ngas language.
Instead of using Hausa words like keke, babur, dari, dubu, and the like, the college can coin or come up with words that can be used. This way, we preserve the old language and as well add value by improving its relevance in every facet of our lives. Imagine having Ngas words for internet, cctv, diapers, etc and are used on our day to day communication, how will that look like?
