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Vol.5 , No. 1, Publication Date: Jan. 25, 2018, Page: 15-19
 proverbs which constitute very integral discourse materials, in any society, are immensely endangered. Even though they are employed by members of the communities for various occasions and diverse functions orally, they still stand chances of overbearing modifications by individuals and subsequent extinctions if not collected and preserved. Most societies today have their proverbs, as a genre in folklore, strictly indentified with them. The invention or manipulation vary according to the communities because it is generally argued by scholars that African proverbs offer insight into African philosophical thought, cosmology and worldview, so that collectively their proverbs form a communication system that preserves and transmits the accumulated cultural and spiritual values of the people. The thrust of this paper is to collect the Etulo proverbs since she is one of those communities whose orature has not been given attention adequately owing to facts that she has had no letter. Only recently did Jerry Adams begin an independent work on the people’s alphabet. This study plays a role in preserving a sample of Etulo proverbs for discourse in traditional setting and particularly for posterity.&picture=http://www.aascit.org/aascit/decorators/img/journal/910.jpg)
| [1] | Shi Victor Vincent, Department of English, Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria. |
A painstaking search within the African traditional societies awfully reveals that so many are still without an alphabet so that (their) proverbs which constitute very integral discourse materials, in any society, are immensely endangered. Even though they are employed by members of the communities for various occasions and diverse functions orally, they still stand chances of overbearing modifications by individuals and subsequent extinctions if not collected and preserved. Most societies today have their proverbs, as a genre in folklore, strictly indentified with them. The invention or manipulation vary according to the communities because it is generally argued by scholars that African proverbs offer insight into African philosophical thought, cosmology and worldview, so that collectively their proverbs form a communication system that preserves and transmits the accumulated cultural and spiritual values of the people. The thrust of this paper is to collect the Etulo proverbs since she is one of those communities whose orature has not been given attention adequately owing to facts that she has had no letter. Only recently did Jerry Adams begin an independent work on the people’s alphabet. This study plays a role in preserving a sample of Etulo proverbs for discourse in traditional setting and particularly for posterity.
Keywords
Orature, Proverbs, Language, Etulo, Traditional Discourse
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