Khana language
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Khana or Ogoni proper, is the prestige variety
of the Ogoni languages
. It is the lingua franca of speakers of the East Ogoni languages.
Prestige dialect
In sociolinguistics, prestige describes the level of respect accorded to a language or dialect as compared to that of other languages or dialects in a speech community. The concept of prestige in sociolinguistics is closely related to that of prestige or class within a society...
of the Ogoni languages
Ogoni languages
The Ogoni languages, or Kegboid languages, are the five languages of the Ogoni people of Rivers State, Nigeria.They fall into two clusters, with a limited degree of mutual intelligibility between members of each cluster...
. It is the lingua franca of speakers of the East Ogoni languages.