CONAECDA

CONFERENCE OF AUTOCHTHONOUS ETHNIC NATIONALITIES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONS Temporary Office: No. 17, Miango Road, Jos, Plateau State Phone: 08036025872              E-Mail: conaecda@gmail.com TEXT OF THE COOMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF MINORITY LANGUAGES DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - INTERNATONAL STRATEGY CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY CONFERENCE OF AUTOCHTHONOUS ETHNIC COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONS (CONAECDA) HELD BETWEEN JUNE 6 – 10, 2016 AT AZI NYAKO YOUTH CENTRE, JOS, PLATEAU STATE The Minority languages programme is a programme that seeks to assist all minority ethnic nationalities, to put in place all necessary machineries to preserve and develop their languages, teach their children how to speak their languages and imbibe their cultures as a matter of utmost importance. The conference therefore, aims t o identify and effectively classify all minority languages in Nigeria, develop media for each language to be written and read, produce reading materials and inst