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Tiv is presented as a major Benue-Congo (Bantu) language with over four million speakers, yet it is described as having a weak functional status. 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The language is of the Benue-Congo subclass of the Bantu parent family. It has over four million speakers spoken in five states of Nigeria. The language like many other Nigerian languages is in dire need of language planning efforts and strategies. Some previous efforts were made to plan the language and government too has made policies to back up such efforts. This study therefore examines empirically the current state of the status planning of the language and its implication for the future and survival of the language. Status planning deals with the allocation of functions to a community’s language(s) . The functions investigated here include the educational, the media and home functions and it has been discovered that the language has a weak functional status. This therefore requires some conscious and deliberate language engineering strategies tobe set in motion to rescue the language from its present bleak and weak functional status, to which end some recommendations have been made.  \nKeywords: Language planning, Status planning, Nigerian languages, Tiv language  \n1. Introduction  \nNigeria is a multimodal multilingual society (if we follow Fishman’s (1972) classification of nations as either amodal, unimodal or multimodal) with several great linguistic, cultural, religious and political traditions. While Crozier, Blench and Hansford (1992) keep the number at over 250, Ethnologue (2015) lists 527 languages with varying degrees of endangerment. These figures present a picture of what the linguistic composition looks like even if some seem exaggerated.  \nTiv language is one of the major languages spoken in central Nigeria in the states of Benue, Taraba, Nasarawa, Plateau and some parts of Cross River with a numerical strength of over 4 million speakers. It is the major language spoken by the Tiv people who occupy the greater part of the Benue Valley. The language co-exists with other languages like Idoma, Igede, Jukun, Etulo, Abakwa and Alago. Considering the fact that this language is a major language in central Nigeria and it coexists among other languages, the need to consciously plan it to make it more viable and usable within its community becomes very expedient. This is so because in multimodal speech communities issues of language planning are not a given and are not allowed to follow a natural selection process but are given attention and efforts made to ensure that all the language resources of the community are properly harnessed and utilised in such a manner that does not disadvantage other languages or groups.  \nThis study focuses on investigating empirically the state of the‘status planning’ of Tiv language. Status planning deals with the allocation of functions to a language or among a community’s languages (Cooper 1989) to enable it/them serve the purposes for which they are supposed. The primary concern of status planning therefore is the conscious allocation of functions to a language(s) in a speech community. This research therefore investigates the current level of planning of Tiv language in relation to the functions allocated to it or those it ","cbCaiky4ysHCyjqc","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiky4ysHCyjqc","pdf",263619,14,"English","# Introduction\n## Status planning focus and research questions\n# A Brief Background of the Origin and Development of Tiv Language\n## Meaning of “Tiv” and linguistic classification","[{\"question\":\"What is the main objective of the study on Tiv language status planning?\",\"answer\":\"The study empirically examines the current state of the Tiv language’s status planning and its implications for the language’s future and survival.\"},{\"question\":\"Which language functions are investigated in relation to Tiv?\",\"answer\":\"The paper investigates educational, media, and home functions to determine the language’s functional status in the community.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the study conclude about Tiv language’s functional status and future needs?\",\"answer\":\"It finds the language has a weak functional status, requiring conscious and deliberate language engineering strategies to improve its viability.\"}]","An Investigation into the State of Status Planning of Tiv Language of Central Nigeria | PDF",1792067490,35]