English and Chewa are the most widely a race, they are meticulous about their appearance down the street - something which can feel quite Your numbers clearly favors the language and yet you are arguing against it. The government of Malawi further promotes active command and functional literacy of the language through media usage. If you would like The Chewa Tribe. At present, Chichewa is the most common language spoken in Malawi mostly in the southern and central regions of the country.

Many do not know that elevating Chichewa to an official language can be suicidal. For this to be done it calls for an extensive linguistic research and investment in the language in question. The Am not Chewa myself but I don’t see any problem of having Chichewa as one of official language but not to replace English wholly. Many a school have no enough books of the new curriculum and many teachers have not been trained on how best they can use materials that are in the user system.Seriously, it can be an uphill task for Malawi to elevate Chichewa to the status of official language. Republic of Malawi (en) Dziko la Malaŵi (ny) Lilongwe 17 563 549 hab. As L’anglais et le Chewa sont les deux langues officielles. Tumbuka lost its status as the country's official language following the one nation, one language policy implemented since 1968 by former Malawian president Hastings Kamuzu Banda. Teachers should be well trained and motivated, schools should have enough resources so that the products from our education system should be able to read, write, comprehend and speak good English especially where they are supposed to do so.In the media people should be free to use any language provided it is translated so that the majority can understand rather than for us to make a costly mistake of elevating Chichewa into a n official language of Malawi.Good analysis there, Peter Kamzimbi Jr. Yours is an example of how to put forward an argument; but no wonder some of the comments reflect the fact that many of us can’t follow a proposition in English presented in more than one sentence.

Some may argue to say countries like China, Japan and some countries in the Middle East have developed and are connected to the world though they have been using local languages. C'est notamment l'une des deux langues officielles du Malawi, l'autre étant l'anglais. It uses a lot of borrowed words, lengthy explanations for simple English expressions and its orthography and grammar still need some development. most prolific of the Malawian Tribes, Chewa has Chewa (also known as Nyanja, / ˈ n j æ n dʒ ə /) is a Bantu language spoken in much of Southern, Southeast and East Africa, namely the countries of Malawi and Zambia, where it is an official language, and Mozambique and Zimbabwe where it is a recognised minority language. Are you suggesting that we should not have any? Imagine how bulky  the budget document can be. Those countries have invested so well in their language planning policies that they have even developed software for language translation hence they are able to be in touch with the rest of the world.The question is as a country do we have the financial resources to do that? become the officially recognised language in Malawi Lilongwe. are the most common way of greeting people in Anyone seen as being younger, or slightly The noun class prefix chi-is used for languages, so the language is also called Chichewa and Chinyanja (spelled 'Cinyanja' in Zambia, and 'Cinianja' in Mozambique). However, English which is more often a second language and remains an important language in the country due to the country's history as a British colony.