Indigenous Language: A Barn of African Cultural Heritage

Abstract

Language and culture are symbiotically related whereby, one is necessary for the existence of another, they equally serves as a grain store of our cultural heritage, so therefore one cannot study them in isolation. This paper will explore the two concepts and their connectedness with specific examples from some African languages within our midst. Language is in fact deeply-rooted in the culture of its speakers. Therefore, the cultural morals of the people are domicile in their language, to expatiate the connectedness, a well-articulated theory that is Sapir Whorfian theory is used in the critical analysis