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Official use of Ghanaian languages will help modernisation

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  • Agyeman. 10 years ago

    What the writer seems to miss is that kiswahili is readily acceptable to all east african tribes bcoz it is an amalgam of borrowed african/persian & arab words so its not from any dominant tribe.Twi will be a hard sell from a ...
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  • Kofi of Africa 10 years ago

    Agyeman,

    Thank you for your comment. We must still try to strategize for our development and modernity.

    The 'hard sell'you point out can be mitigated by deep public discourse on the use of Twi as Ghana's sole national ...
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  • GAWUKO 10 years ago

    It will, if it should be realised take a lot of discourse on the use of a language in Ghana as the lingua franca. Twi is widely spoken but we should not deceive ourselves into thinking that it will be easy to sell for the ver ...
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  • Kwabenaghana 10 years ago

    All our local languages are non scientific.We want to develope and advance our Society.

  • Tekonline.org 10 years ago

    Dear Kwabena, yes, they may lack the TERMINOLOGIES but they can still be used for the COMPREHENSION of scientific concepts.

    English should still be taught in the Ghanaian schools so that students can use materials anywher ...
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  • Tekonline.org 10 years ago

    Speaking of African symbols and all things academic, the Adinkras have made their way to the vocabulary of theoretical physics, believe it or not:

    www.onbeing.org/program/uncovering-codes-reality/feature/symbols-power-adin ...
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  • Kofi of Africa 10 years ago

    Tekonline.org,

    Thank you for sharing the knowledge that adinkra symbology is in physics. I quote:

    'As its name implies, the theory of supersymmetry takes the idea of symmetry a step further. In the Standard Model there ...
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  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Hausa is widely spoken and even the much maligned Ewe is spoken in 3 countries . language we must remember is for communication

  • TENDAANA 10 years ago

    Your Twi or whatever dialet you speak will die a natural death just like Latin and all others before.It's natures way of things

  • AYI 10 years ago

    GA IS GHANA OFFICIAL LANGUAGE.
    AFRICA/BLACK RACE GLOBALLY USE ALL/EVERY MEANS, /AT ALL COST/BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY RADICAL MEANS TO UNITE. AFRICA/BLACK RACE GLOBALLY BE SELF-SUFFICIENT, USE YOUR RESOURCES TO FUND YOUR RADICA ...
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  • Agyeman. 10 years ago

    Haha,this idea is a tough sell if Ghana's modernization is the goal.What are the Twi words for cloud computing,for stem cells or words for web browser or even "economies of scale" ??????

    The place of English in Ghana is ...
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  • Kofi of Africa 10 years ago

    Agyeman,

    I refer you to the answer I have already given you.

    But additionally, the difficulty with Twi equivalent of words is exactly what the Bureau of Ghana Languages and linguistic departments in our universities mus ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Figures are pointed at English as being a second language hence our woes. But is it not going to be the same situation for others when one Ghanaian language is adopted for all?
    What development and modernisation has Swahil ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    how many dialects does nigeria have??? very many...That why Britian taught you english!

  • Kofi of Africa 10 years ago

    Dan,

    The British did not speak Hausa, the predominant language in Nigeria. This is why they taught Nigeria English. After 57 years of Ghana (first) Independence, it is time for us Africans to think for ourselves, don't you ...
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  • Kofi of Africa 10 years ago

    Kofi,

    We must chip away at development and modernisation from all possible angles. Linguistic challenges must go side-by-side with economic, engineering and science and technology challenges.

    You are right some African ...
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  • Gbortsu Kwami 10 years ago

    Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and his cabinet in the First Republic did all they could to institutionalize and respect our own native languages and succeeded in using those languages in mass communication,radio broadcasts and te ...
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  • Kofi of Africa 10 years ago

    Point-on!

    Regards.

  • OJ 10 years ago

    CAN,T DEVELOPE WITH SOMEONES LANGUAGE,B,COS LANGUAGE ITSELF IS CULTURE.THUS WHY THE WHITEMAN FORCE US TO LEARN THEIR LANGUAGE.LOOK AT THE SRI LANKANS, INDONESIA,MALAYSIA ,SMALL COUNTRIES LIKE ICELAND,MALTA,ALL THE EASTERN BLO ...
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  • Kofi of Africa 10 years ago

    OJ,

    Exactly my point. We must think and act for ourselves!

  • Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 years ago

    Hi Kofi of Africa, well done for your well-thought out ideas and your Afrocentric and patriotic zeal. I have followed your arguments in this article and I perceive you are a scholarly linguist. On Kiswahili, the situation bec ...
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  • Kofi of Africa 10 years ago

    Kwesi,

    Thank you also for your input to the discourse of Ghanaian/African lingua franca.

    I think you slightly misread my text. I advocate all Ghanaian/African languages to be taught. But I advance the argument for one o ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    everything on internet is wrote in english,german,french or China! How can anybody expect to succeed outside of ghana with out knowing those tonques

  • Asiwome 10 years ago

    Imagine going to the airport and selecting arrivals forms that are published in Avatime language on a computer. We do not need one language as an official language but all. It is possible in this computer age to use all langu ...
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  • Kofi of Africa 10 years ago

    Asiwome,

    European and American countries use only one official native languages. But multi-culturally provide translation facilities for other ethnicities.

    Computers cannot solve the complications for the concurrent use ...
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  • Asiwome 10 years ago

    This is food for thought.

  • NII LARTEY NARTEY 10 years ago

    Everybody will agree to this well written article but the point is there is no political will power to adopt the most popularly spoken language in Ghana, Twi as the national language simple because of ethnocentric nonsense ea ...
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  • Kofi of Africa 10 years ago

    Nii Lartey,

    Thank you for your deep reasoning and understanding of the issue at discourse.

    We must chip away at development and modernisation from all possible angles. Linguistic challenges must go side-by-side with e ...
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  • Ekuma 10 years ago

    Kwesi Atta bra fie oooo tom. Gyae mboasem na ish3 Lusaka hor na iridzi no. Abodam tsitsi bin dzi ? 3kor tsiefi a npipa wo tun anaa ?

    Fantse nyi TOKE . Aboa d3tsi . Gyae Lusaka mprakonam wi na hunu nyasa kakra. Nonsense ...
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  • Whatever 10 years ago

    If you can't deveop your language, you can't develop you environment. That is a natural law. The kind of english Ghanaians speak in Ghana is NOT english. It's a written-english text in crudely stored in our memory as a copy o ...
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  • Just Saying 10 years ago

    True. Twi will help us to be better engineers, scientists, doctors, farmers, lawyers, inventors, etc. In fact, if the white man had thought of it earlier, he would have used Twi to go beyond just landing on the moon. We would ...
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  • Kwame Appeatu 10 years ago

    Firstly, let me congratulate you on a well written article - you are so much a hero you don't even know it. You have demonstrated some of the traits usually found in visionary leaders like Nkrumah, Mao, Ghandi etc. You are wa ...
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