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A call has been made on Ghanaian parents not to sacrifice their native languages in favour of other languages in the upbringing of their children and the younger generation.
At a ceremony to mark the 2021 International Mother Language Day, the Secretary-General of the Ghana Commission for UNESCO, Mrs Ama Serwah Nerquay-Tetteh, said while it was good to learn and speak other languages of the world, parents must remember that research had shown that proficiency in the native or mother tongue enables children to reason better and help them to “think on their feet”.
Mrs Nerquay-Tetteh was addressing an audience of parents, language facilitators and students of Ghanaian languages in Ghana and in the diaspora at an official function held online by the Nayram Language Centre (NLC) in Accra.

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