Ghana's Language Crisis: Preserving our mother tongues without sacrificing our global future

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• shahidi 9 hours ago

  Excellent analysis. But the author does not provide practical solutions. How can children learn Ga or Twi without proper learning materials?

  Excellent analysis. But the author does not provide practical solutions. How can children learn Ga or Twi without proper learning materials?

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• Nsia 1 hour ago

  On the whole, I think your article is fairly reasonable. But, I do not for one minute believe any of your statistics. And, you failed to put certain things into account. India, had a written language in Hindi and Tamil long ...
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  On the whole, I think your article is fairly reasonable. But, I do not for one minute believe any of your statistics. And, you failed to put certain things into account. India, had a written language in Hindi and Tamil long before any white nan set foot on their soil. We did not. A fact, all the airy-fairy language doomsday propagandists in Ghana never talk about.
  Now, whose Mother Tongue are you talking about? So, a person born in a certain region in Ghana whose language is not written should learn Twi or Fante as his or her mother tongue in his or her village or what?
  When an Aowin man goes to sec school in Paga and later marries his school sweetheart and they settle in Tema or Accra, they might communicate in English but their children will definitely be able to speak Ga through their friends. That is a fact. I can definitely give numerous examples of that.
  At the time when almost every broadcaster in Ghana seems to broadcast almost everything in Twi as if the people in Wa, Sogakope, Sefwi, Pusiga etc are legally obliged to understand it, that is all these language doomsayer are lamenting including the writer of this article.
  Those constantly whingeing about language in Ghana tends to come from a family where both parents speak the same language ,and they think everybody fits into the same bracket.
  Ivory Coast consists of various ethnic groups. They all speak their various languages at home and use French as a bridge between them. None, of them cries over that. When Captain Smart sits on his National TV show or Delay interviews a prominent Ghanain in Twi, do they expect the people in Accra, Kpandu, Walewale to understand them or what?
  There is no language crisis in Ghana from where I am sitting. We should rather strive hard to improve our English. I have spoken Akan languages all my life, yet I do not what Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Amoeba or Molecule are called in any Akan language.

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