UBa:Researcher Proposes Solution To Disappearing African Languages At PhD Defense


Yollande Menguie After Her Outstanding Defense Session At UBa


By Raymond Dingana

Efforts to prevent African Venaculars from being eroded by foreign languages was point of focus during a PhD thesis in the Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Bamenda,(UBa), Thursday November 10,2022.

Being the first of it's kind, the academic public defense titled:Multilingualism And Social Networks: The Case Of Lower Fungom Indigenes In The Diaspora was by Yolland Menguie at the Faculty of Linguistics and African Languages in UBa.

The defense that held at the faculty of Arts Board Room was chaired by Professor Mbangwana Paul from The University of Yaounde I.

Yollande Menguie Facing The Press

She argued in her research work that if people who have migrated to urban areas and even out of their natural habitat do not belong to social networks of common identity, they might forget their native mother tongue with time as they will be forced to learn languages close to their environment.

The candidate, Yollande Menguie in an interactive nature convinced the jury of five professors with accumulated research in languages on her main research problem.
“I noted that their association with speakers of other languages has an influence on their own languages and their linguistic repertoire. Residents of lower Fungom who reside in Souza and associate with speakers of other languages has an influence on their language and linguistic repertoire” she said.
On what change the research work shall make in the society, Yollande Menguie says there is great need for people to belong to social networks or create social networks of common identity for the preservation of the respective linguistic repertoire

“we are recommending that since the social networks equally have a negative influence on their linguistic repertoire, more avenues should be created in which they can use more of their lower Fungom languages. There is the absence of sporting activities that has t do with lower Fungom speakers, social encounters and preservation of languages. More Njangi groups should be created only for Fungom indigenes in the Diaspora” she added.
On the choice of Souza for the research by the candidate, Yollande Menguie says the indigenes of lower fungom resident in the area are very much exposed to other languages like the French language, the native Aboh languages and Pangeh, making some of the lower Fungom residents in Souza to abandoned their original linguistic repertoire in favour of host community languages because of the absence of social networks. 


Yollande Menguie Celebrating Success

There are 7 spoken languages in the 13 villages that make up lower fungom and some of these languages are fast dying out.

After an interactive defense session, the jury comprising professor Mbangwana Paul from the university of Yaoundé 1, professor Seino Evangeline from the university of Bamenda, professor Asonganyi Esther from the university of Bamenda, professor Vincent Tanda of UBa as well as professor Muluh Henry recommended Yollande Menguie to the university senate for the award of a Doctor Of Philosophy Degree with the grade excellent.

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