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A recent documentary hosted by Channel 5's The Gadget Show presenter Ortis Deley on language endangerment in the Ghanaian community got me thinking about my own fluency in my parents' language Twi. Ortis considers the value of language and identity as a British Ghanaian in a two-part vlog (see below) (c) MisBeee Writes The following blog and two-part video blog ( see   here ) with Ortis explores some of the reasons why language fluency is on the decline and hopefully some insight into how to reverse the trend....read on. There are over 70 indigenous languages actively spoken in Ghana, and yet fluency is on the decline among Ghanaians in the Motherland and those across the diaspora.  The growing march towards Western globalisation combined with an under-utilisation of some spoken native languages has meant that increasingly, speakers are losing fluency in their mother tongues. Mother tongue The fact that English is the official language of Ghana and as a resul...