Language Planning and Policy in Africa
Richard B. Baldauf, Robert B. Kaplan
This volume covers the language situation in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages. The authors are indigenous and have been participants in the language planning context.
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Contents
Contents
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The Language Situation in Botswana
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The Language Planning Situation in Malawi
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79 |
The Language Situation in Mozambique
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150 |
The Language Planning Situation in South Africa
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197 |
Biographical Notes on Contributors 282
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African languages Afrikaans apartheid areas Baldauf Bantu languages Basarwa Batawana bilingual broadcasts Cape Town census Chewa Chichewa Chiefs Chinyanja churches colonial communication Constitution cultural Curriculum dialects District Dutch economic education system ethnic groups Gaborone grade guage implementation indigenous languages isiXhosa isiZulu issues Journal Kalanga Kamwangamalu Kayambazinthu Kishindo Klerk language groups language maintenance language planning language policy language practices language shift language spread learning lingua franca linguistic literacy Lomwe major Malawi Malawian languages Mang'anja Maputo medium of instruction Ministry minority languages missionaries monograph mother tongue Mozambican Mozambique multilingual national language Ngoni Nguni Nyanja official language organisations policy and planning political population Portuguese Pretoria primary school programmes promote radio region religion Report role Setswana Shiyeyi social sociolinguistic Sotho South Africa Southern Africa speak speakers spoken status teachers teaching tion tribes Tumbuka University urban vernacular Wayeyi Zomba Zulu