World in Words Podcast: A Comeback for Africa's Homegrown Languages?

EPISODE · Nov 30, 2012 · 42 MIN

World in Words Podcast: A Comeback for Africa's Homegrown Languages?

from PRI's The World Dec 4, 2012 · host The World

Language news with Cartoon Queen Carol includes discussion of: what to call South African President Zuma's newly refurbished home; a thesaurus for Runyankore/Rukiga co-written by Ugandan President Museveni; English only debates in Ghana's presidential election are annoy some; and food idioms in German, Swedish and Polish. For more: http://www.theworld.org/category/podcasts/the-world-in-words-podcast/

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World in Words Podcast: A Comeback for Africa's Homegrown Languages?

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