My language, my pride

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The chairperson of the multicultural coalition group Reteng, has urged government to come up with a language policy as a practical measure of their commitment to recognise and preserve all indigenous languages.

Speaking in a telephone interview ahead of the commemoration of National Languages Day, Dr Ndana Ndana said that a language policy that recognises all languages would be an important starting point for the preservation of languages. 

Ndana said that government's argument that the lack of human resources is impeding the teaching and using of some indigenous languages in schools (other than Setswana) can be resolved.  Ndana believes that speakers of each respective language could be used to teach, as a starting point, while government works on creating an enabling environment through a language policy.

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