Parliament should use local languages – academic

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Parliament should use local languages – academic

2:22 CAT | 01 Sep 2016

Notícias (File photo) / The Mozambican parliament in session, seen here in a file photo

The introduction of national languages in the Mozambican parliament (National Assembly) would facilitate the political participation of the majority of the Mozambican population, in addition to promoting national culture.

So proposed academic Guilherme Basílio yesterday during the international conference on Bantu culture, language and livelihoods in Mozambique organised by the Pedagogic University.

The social and philosophical sciences lecturer said that the teaching of local languages should not end early in schools but should rather be continued right through general secondary education.

He also thinks that institutions not accepting documents written in local languages, and their not being spoken in parliament, signals a discontinuity and inconsistency within policies.

To address this scenario, Basilio is in favour of the use in parliament of local languages with the largest number of speakers in the country. In Mozambique, these are Emakua, used by 26 percent of the Mozambican population, and Changana, used by 17 percent.

Source: Notícias