Okezie 1975

Okezie, Joyce A. 1975. "Language planning and literacy development: An African example." Patterns in language, culture, and society: Sub-Saharan Africa 1975:27–36. Interest level: specialist.

Discusses problems in establishing orthography and deals with sociolinguistic aspects of language planning for the Igbo in Nigeria. Uses computerized systems for Protestant, Catholic, and official government people. Has a low-prestige view of written Igbo. Compares problems of prestige and power versus number in dialect differences.

Is not a particularly helpful article for orthography but does cite interesting case example of orthography reform. Is not a really useful article for alphabet considerations.

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