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لبّ الموضوع - احمد كريس

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احمد كريس

2012 / 3 / 12 - 14:23
التحكم: الحوار المتمدن

Add to that, the availability of References and Lexicography and so forth. At university. Mid eighties, we were studying the works of Achebe, the Nigerian novelist, and that led to the subject of ethnicities in Nigeria and culture. We were gobsmacked to learn that Nigeria has more than a thousand languages. But wait a second! What kind of languages are we talking about here.? In Papua new-guinea, in the Maori mainland of new Zealand, in the Aborigines regions of Australia and in Amazonia and Africa, there are thousands of means of communication; hence, to me and you ; a language. But to a linguist, just a tone. My ex-classmate from Rwanda, Alfred, said to me the French and the Belgian were behind the creation of their second official language called: KENYARWANDI. It lacks all the major characteristics that form a language. You can write it but no rules are applied; ie, grammar and syntax. More like Esperanto

للاطلاع على الموضوع والتعليقات الأخرى انقر على الرابط أدناه:
الى اصدقائي في الحوار المتمدن / ميس اومازيغ