Mali Drops French As Official Language

[PaklovesTurkiye]

Interesting...

 

[BHAN85]

it will keep as de facto language.

 

[Abu Shaleh Rumi]

Declare Mali as a No French zone too...

 

[Hack-Hook]

it will keep as de facto language.

depend , if they manage to change their office and working language to a language like Bamana that more than 80% of their people can communicate with why not?

 

[BHAN85]

depend , if they manage to change their office and working language to a language like Bamana that more than 80% of their people can communicate with why not?

In general, ancient native languages are less versatile than modern languages.

Besides keep in mind the need of french (or english) to do foreign commerce.

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

In general, ancient native languages are less versatile than modern languages.

Besides keep in mind the need of french (or english) to do foreign commerce.

What is so special with the European languages like English, French or Spanish?

People can use Yuan for trade and Mandarin for communication.

Mandarin is already spoken by 1.4 billion people on this planet.

 

[Hack-Hook]

In general, ancient native languages are less versatile than modern languages.

Besides keep in mind the need of french (or english) to do foreign comancient its the merce.

nor English neither French is an official language here and we do trade
and that language is not a dead ancient language its primary language of 5 million people in Mali and second language of another 10 million aka more than 80% of Mali population .

 

[BHAN85]

What is so special with the European languages like English, French or Spanish?

People can use Yuan for trade and Mandarin for communication.

Mandarin is already spoken by 1.4 billion people on this planet.

if Mandarin is so wonderful why Chinese people use internet domains names with numbers and roman alphabet letters.

nor English neither French is an official language here and we do trade
and that language is not a dead ancient language its primary language of 5 million people in Mali and second language of another 10 million aka more than 80% of Mali population .

Well, that's what I said, it will keep as de facto language.

A modern language to talk well is not a easy thing, even English seems to me a old crappy language in comparison with Spanish, Spanish has a lot more influences from other languages.

Spanish language has several words to say the same concept.
English language has several concepts to the same word.

English is underdeveloped.

 

[Skull and Bones]

I hope they adopt an indigenous language and English as state language.

 

[MeFishToo]

But if they speak french it all belongs to France, no?

 

[Ali_Baba]

Interesting...

Fair play - they should adopt instead English - far more useful language than French.

 

[uhuru]

for us in east africa - we broke the shackles of colonial past long time back. Mwalimu enforced Kiswahili. Across entire 8 countries, this is the language - not english not french but our own language. West Africa was deliberately broken up = nigeria by the lunatic mil junta which crippled the country and corruption. French with their governance and proxy independent republic in names only.

Kudos to Mali - throw the french out. Rest of francophone must do the same.

Here in neighbouring Rwanda - French already got abolished as the official language. no longer taught even as a subject. Kirundi, Kiswahili and English. When the university professors marched, they were asked to resign as they did not want to learn english.