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Article: In your language or mine? (South Africa passed a multilingual policy, but Afrikaners worry their language, AfriKaans, will be used less)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 17, 1994
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AFRIKANER politicians are not unhappy to be abused in Parliament these days--so long as the abuse is in Afrikaans and the abuser is black. Some even applaud the speech. Afrikaners know that unless they encourage debate in their mother tongue, the survival of the Afrikaans language is at risk.
South Africa's new constitution gives the country no fewer than 11 official languages. A further eight languages--from Greek to Gujarati--are to be "promoted and developed" by a special board. In theory this means that every official document, from an income-tax form to a parking fine, has to be translated into all 11 tongues, as they were into Afrikaans and English when those ...
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