[civsoc-mw] Use of indigenous languages

[Dunstain Mwaungulu]

Apply the Constitution

On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, 08:54 Adamson S. Muula, <amuula at medcol.mw> wrote:

> Sir,
>
> Now the issue may be could be: should we implement the Constitution or
> change the constitution?
>
> On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 at 09:51, Dunstain Mwaungulu <
> dfmwaungulu at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> As I pointed out in two statements - which sparked this debate ' I made
>> at the CENTRE FOR LAW AND POLICY, this is a constitutional matter.The
>> National Assembly was, for the past 25 years, acting unconstitutionally.
>> The Constitution provides that the language of the proceedings shall be
>> English AND other languages. Parliament could not therefore have been
>> acting constitutionally by using Englidh alone.
>>
>> I followed up this by saying that all Malawina languages must be used and
>> there should be simultaneously translation - this can be easily and cheaply
>> done. There is appropriate technology available. I even suggested a short
>> translation course to an institution that I know.
>>
>> I argued that by definition all languages spoken by Malawians are
>> nationalsnguages and advocated that they be listed as such as has happened
>> in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The latter has included Chinyanja as a
>> national language.
>>
>> I argue that the word Chinyanja or Kinyasa did not refer to Chichewa
>> alone - but all languages of the lake people. So there was nothing wrong
>> with breaking Chinyanja into the distinct languages of the lake. So Kamuzu
>> was right to single out  Chichewa.
>>
>> I think all languages should be promoted fully and equally because a
>> Malawian has a  constitutional right to a language and culture
>>
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