[Wikipedia-l] Languages for Africa

[Andy Rabagliati]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Delirium wrote:

> I'd question that: I think Africa is "best served" by whatever content 
> the most people can read, which is likely to be English.  Even expanding 
> to say, four languages, the best choices are likely to be English, 
> French, Arabic, and Swahili (although I can't find very good statistics 
> on this).

I would agree with your statement, and choice of languages. One might
throw Portuguese in there, but that is really only Angola and
Mozambique.

One might take Swahili out, as many literate Swahili-speakers also speak
English.

Cheers,    Andy!

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