[Wikipedia-l] Languages for Africa

[Ray Saintonge]

Andy Rabagliati wrote:

>On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Delirium wrote:
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>>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).
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>I would agree with your statement, and choice of languages. One might
>throw Portuguese in there, but that is really only Angola and
>Mozambique.
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Also Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde

Equatorial Guinea is a former Spanish colony, but I can't be sure of the 
status of Spanish in Western Sahara.  Amharic is unusual among 
sub-Saharan languages in that it also has a long written tradition.

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