African Languages, Development and the StateRichard Fardon, Graham Furniss This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy statements and their pragmatic outcomes is a far more serious problem for future development |
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African Languages, Development and the State Richard Fardon,Graham Furniss No preview available - 1994 |
African Languages, Development and the State Richard Fardon,Graham Furniss No preview available - 2022 |
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African languages African Studies Afrikaans Anthropology Apartheid Arabic associated Bantu languages Barotseland become Bendel bilingualism Binsbergen Boran Botswana Botswana Kalanga Bwisha cent Chumburung colonial communication context crop cultural dialects discourse dominant economic Edoid élite English ethnic groups European fertility Freetown French Government Hausa Igbo ikinyabwisha ikizungu independent indigenous Institute Islamic ivitamin Kalanga Kenya Kiswahili Koran Krio language land language development language groups language planning language policy lingua franca linguistic literacy loanwords London Lozi maalim major Mijikenda minority language modern mother tongue multilingualism Muslim national development national language Ndebele Ngwato Nigeria Nkoya objectification official language Oromo orthography paper political Portuguese post-colonial practice problem programme regional relations religious Rendille role rural Samburu Schlee schools Sierra Leone situation social society Somali South Africa Southern speak spoken status Swahili Swahili language Tanzanian traditional translation Tswana University Press village western Yoruba Zambia