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2023-12-10 Africa North

Burkina abandons French as an official language

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Posted by Fred 2023-12-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [26 views ] Top
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#1 How many national languages they have?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-10 01:08|| 2023-12-10 01:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Not selected to replace French.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-10 01:17|| 2023-12-10 01:17|| Front Page Top

#3 How many national languages they have?

From the CIA Factbook (2019 est.):
Mossi 52.9%
Fula 7.8%
Gourmantche 6.8%
Dyula 5.7%
Bissa 3.3%
Gurunsi 3.2%
French (official) 2.2%
Bwamu 2%
Dagara 2%
San 1.7%
Marka 1.6%
Bobo 1.5%
Senufo 1.5%
Lobi 1.2%
other 6.6%

tl;dr: Basically one for every ethic group in the country

Since French is out, what next? If they choose an indigenous language, it means tribal war with somebody as you can see from the above list. All the good languages are already taken by the various colonial oppressors. I recommend they pick Esperanto. Esperanto is the language of the Future (and always will be).
What could be more African than that?

Posted by SteveS 2023-12-10 16:34|| 2023-12-10 16:34|| Front Page Top

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