User:Habeebchomsky/Linguistic Association of Nigeria

Linguistic Association of Nigeria, also known as LAN is a non-governmental and non-profitable organization that brings together, some intellectual Nigerian linguists that aim at advancing the scientific exploration of language. LAN was established in 1980 and has over 500 members across Nigerian climes and in the diaspora.

The goals of LAN
Linguistic Association of Nigeria(LAN) principally exploits all existing medium to explicate the rudiments of linguistics. And particurlarly, how Linguistics is used to explore the languages of Nigeria ￼￼.LAN also plays a critical role in propagating and disseminating linguistic scholarship both to professional linguists and to the general public. It is a well-ingrained fact that Nigeria as a developing country in the heart of Africa is a bigger multilingual nation which subsumes in it, different sets of peoples with different linguistic traditions. However, it has been battling with the challenge of peaceful co-existence and national cohesion which have been examined to have set in due to some socio-cultural factors. Hence, LAN as an organization that embeds a group of linguistic scholars, stands out to resolve the problem of tribal discrimination that might have resulted from the angle of linguistic diversity.

LAN makes all possible strife towards unifying the nation as whole and simultaneously gapping the socio-cultural and the inter-ethnic discrepancies challenging the peaceful co-existence among the tribes in Nigeria to gain these ends. However, LAN has outlined a series of tools that will make the achievement of the goals more rapid and efficient.And they are as thus :


 * LAN makes provision for the foundation for the study of Nigerian languages;
 * It provides a forum for sharing ideas on the scholarly study of these languages and their literatures with a view to developing them;
 * It initiates, encourages and supports scholarly research in the field of linguistics for scientific purposes and advice of the government;
 * It establishes and publishes learned journals and;
 * cooperates with other associations or bodies that have similar goals.

Notable activities
LAN make people acquainted to the scholarly works that are done for the purpose of proffering some substantial solution to the linguistic problems encountered by any Nigerian citizen, irrespective of his/her ethnical background in the wider multilingual millieu.The members of the organization meet annually to share ideas,reports,publications,and research works so as to continue advancing the frontiers of linguistics, particularly, ameliorating the linguistic challenges among the speakers of the different languages of Nigeria.They also publish, annually, a journal titled"Journal of Linguistic association of Nigeria (JOLAN) .

Some prominent members
The membership of LAN is majorly drawn from the department of linguistics in Nigerian universities and abroad.Below are the names of some prominent Nigerian linguists who are also members of LAN:

1)Professor Imelda Udoh, University of Uyo,Uyo,the president of the association presently.

2)Professor Gideon Omachonu,Nassarawa University, Nassarawa,who is the vice president of the association.

3)Professor Gregory Obiamalu,Nnamdi Azikwe University,Awka,the treasurer.