WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS DO YOU CONSIDER MOST RELEVANT IN ASSESSING THE SUITABILITY OF GUARAN AS THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE

OF PARAGUAY?

b) Guaran is spoken by 98% of paraguayans and is the only language of many rural people. f) Guaran is an indigenous language wich attracts a great deal of language loyalty from Paraguayans. g) Guaran is a morphologically interesting language wich forms words using additive and synthetic processes.

c) Guaran has an extensive vocabulary, especially in areas such as botany, medicine and agriculture. Exp: Anestesico kurupa; syand o ceibo; ama' / seco, sequa a) Guaran is a linguistically interesting language with a complex tense system. -va'ekue: indicates a fact that occurred long ago and asserts that it's really truth. Okayva'ekue, "he/she went missing a long time ago d) Guaran is the language of solidarity between Paraguayans both at home and abroad. (Is spoken in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil) Guarani has been recognized as a working language of Mercosur. e) Guaran is consider a melodious language, especially appropiate for expressions of love. h) Every president of Paraguay has been able to speak Guaran.

CAN YOU FILL IN THE FOLLOWING TABLE? WHY DO YOU THINK SOME COUNTRIES HAVE MORE THAN ONE LANGUAGE WITH OFFICIAL STATUS? CONTRIES: AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, BRAZIL, CANADA, COLOMBIA, FINLAND, FRANCE, HAITI, INDIA, INDONESIA, KENYA, NEW ZELAND, NORWAY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, PARAGUAY, PHILIPPINES, SINGAPORE, TANZANIA, URUGUAY, VANUATU, ZAIRE.

Australia
No official language, English is the de facto

official language.

Belgium
Dutch (Official only in Flanders, including

Brussels) French (Official only in Brussels and in Wallonia, German (Official only in the Germanspeaking Community of Belgium)

Brazil
Portuguese (national, all cities) 99%

Canada 86% Bilingual

English (national)

French (national)

Colombia
Spanish (the languages and dialects of

ethnic groups are also official in their territories

Finland
Finnish (statewide, except in the land

Islands) Swedish (statewide) (in the land Islands where Swedish is spoken monolingually)

France
French (statewide)

Haiti
French

India
English (statewide) Hindi
Angika Assamese Beary bashe Bengali Bodo Chhattisgarhi Dogri Garhwali Garo Gujarati Standard Hindi Kannada Kashmiri Khasi Kodava Takk Kokborok Konkani Kumaoni Maithili Malayalam Manipuri Marathi Mizo Nepali Oriya Punjabi Rajasthani Sanskrit Santali Sindhi Tamil Telugu Tulu Urdu

Indonesia
Indonesian (national and official)

Kenya
English

Swahili (national)

New Zealand
English is a de facto official language

(statewide) Maori (statewide)

Norway
Norwegian (statewide) (Bokml and Nynorsk

are the official forms, and municipalities choose between them or a neutral stance)

Papua New Guinea

English Hiri Motu Tok Pisin

Paraguay
Spanish Guaran

Philippines
English (statewide) Filipino (statewide) (national)

Uruguay
Spanish

ZAIRE - French

Singapore
English
Chinese (written: Simplified Chinese; spoken:

Mandarin) Malay Tamil

Tanzania
Swahili (national)
English

Vanuatu
Bislama (national)
English French

IN 1855 DEAN TRENCH, A LEADING ARCHITECT OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT STUDYING THE DICTIONARY WOULD LEAD THROUGH A MORE INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH INTO A GREATER LOVE OF ENGLAND. IN THE 1980S THIS ATTITUDE WAS EXPRESSED ONCE AGAIN IN RELATION TO THE STANDARD DIALECT OF ENGLISH. THE BRITISH SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EDUCATION POINTED TO THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS A SYMBOL OF NATIONHOOD.

It reflects the tendency to see language and nation as synonymous: one language=one nation. Countries like India or Philipinas were are soo many languages is a need to stablish one oficial language to choose a Franca Language.

Language Planning and Policy Goals: An Integrative Framework (Hornberger,

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WHY DO YOU THINK ENGLISH MIGHT BE REGARDED BY SOME POLITICANS AS MORE SUITABLE THAN SWAHILI FOR SECONDARY AND TERTIARY EDUCATION IN TANZANIA? WHAT ARE THE COUNTER-ARGUMENTS?

English is the language of secondary education, universities, technology and higher courts., and because in English we find more information and a wider vocabulary of technical terms.