[civsoc-mw] Use of indigenous languages

[Nini Sulamoyo]

MPs should know that no matter what national governments are not purely
sovereign. For as long as development partners and donors are not chichewa
speaking then we cannot leave them out. Since their international language
os English then the use of English prevails. English is learnt in schools
where MPs should emanate from. No short cuts.

Nini Brenda Sulamoyo-Ruebush

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020, 9:17 PM Keyboard Boyd Kilembey <kkilembe at gmail.com
wrote:

> Laws are not written in chichewa. Law makers must be fluent in English.
> Aspiring mps must fit into the system. It is not the system that must fit
> into mps. We have more serious issues to deal with than dealing with people
> yothawira sukulu pa windo
>
> On Mon, 21 Sep 2020, 19:20 KPD, <maluwakpd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I listened to the discussion last night on Zodiak radio. I have also seen
>> the petition and believe we are going backwards.
>>
>> The problem of Chichewa was Kamuzu's insistence on its purity. We should
>> have allowed it to grow by adopting various, easy to use, words from other
>> languages.
>>
>> Words like windo, galasi, sipuni, wani,  thu, firi, folo etc were
>> borrowed from English. I see no reason why other words from other Malawian
>> languages can not be incorporated. Why can't we use 'ada' instead of
>> 'bambo' and so on.
>>
>> I don't see Malawi advancing just because we have declared 10 languages
>> official.
>>
>> A languages units and many languages divide.
>>
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