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WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS DOYOU CONSIDER MOST RELEVANT IN

ASSESSING THE SUITABILITY OF GUARANAS THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE OFPARAGUAY?

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b) Guaran is spoken by 98% ofparaguayans and is the only languageof many rural people.

f) Guaran is an indigenous language wichattracts a great deal of language loyaltyfrom Paraguayans.

g) Guaran is a morphologically interesting

language wich forms words usingadditive and synthetic processes.

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c) Guaran has an extensive vocabulary,especially in areas such as botany, medicineand agriculture.

Exp: Anestesico kurupa; syand o ceibo; ama' /

seco, sequaa) Guaran is a linguistically interesting languagewith a complex tense system. -va'ekue:indicates a fact that occurred long ago andasserts that it's really truth. Okayva'ekue,"he/she went missing a long time agod) Guaran is the language of solidarity betweenParaguayans both at home and abroad. (Isspoken in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil) Guarani hasbeen 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.

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CAN YOU FILL IN THE FOLLOWING TABLE? WHY DO YOU THINK SOME COUNTRIES HAVE

MORE THAN ONE LANGUAGE WITH OFFICIALSTATUS? CONTRIES: AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, BRAZIL,

CANADA, COLOMBIA, FINLAND, FRANCE,

HAITI, INDIA, INDONESIA, KENYA, NEWZELAND, NORWAY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA,PARAGUAY, PHILIPPINES, SINGAPORE,TANZANIA, URUGUAY, VANUATU, ZAIRE.

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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 inWallonia, German (Official only in the German-

speaking Community of Belgium)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgiumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flandershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brusselshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brusselshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walloniahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-speaking_Community_of_Belgiumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-speaking_Community_of_Belgiumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-speaking_Community_of_Belgiumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-speaking_Community_of_Belgiumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-speaking_Community_of_Belgiumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walloniahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brusselshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brusselshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flandershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgiumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia

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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 theirterritories

Finland Finnish (statewide, except in the landIslands)

Swedish (statewide) (in the land Islands

where Swedish is spoken monolingually)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Englishhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Frenchhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85landhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85landhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85landhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85landhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85landhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85landhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85landhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85landhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85landhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Frenchhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Englishhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France

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France French (statewide)

Haiti

French India

English (statewide) Hindi

AngikaAssameseBeary basheBengaliBodoChhattisgarhiDogriGarhwali GaroGujaratiStandard HindiKannadaKashmiriKhasiKodava TakkKokborokKonkaniKumaoniMaithiliMalayalamManipuriMarathiMizoNepaliOriyaPunjabiRajasthani Sanskrit Santali

SindhiTamilTeluguTuluUrdu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angika_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assamese_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beary_bashehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhattisgarhi_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogri_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garhwali_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garo_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarati_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Hindihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmiri_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khasi_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodava_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokborok_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumaoni_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maithili_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meitei_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizo_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepali_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriya_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajasthani_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrithttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santali_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhi_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulu_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urduhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urduhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulu_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhi_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santali_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrithttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajasthani_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriya_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepali_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizo_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meitei_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maithili_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumaoni_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokborok_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodava_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodava_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodava_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khasi_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmiri_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannada_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Hindihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarati_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garo_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garhwali_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogri_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhattisgarhi_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beary_bashehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beary_bashehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beary_bashehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assamese_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angika_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia

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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 municipalitieschoose between them or a neutral stance)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenyahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swahili_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maori_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokm%C3%A5lhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nynorskhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nynorskhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokm%C3%A5lhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maori_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swahili_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenyahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea

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Papua New Guinea English Hiri Motu

Tok Pisin Paraguay

Spanish Guaran

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

Uruguay Spanish

ZAIRE

- French

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guineahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiri_Motu_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tok_Pisinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaran%C3%AD_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippineshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippineshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaran%C3%AD_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tok_Pisinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiri_Motu_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guineahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore

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Singapore English Chinese (written: Simplified Chinese; spoken:

Mandarin) Malay Tamil

Tanzania Swahili (national) English

Vanuatu Bislama(national) English French

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singaporehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinesehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Mandarinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzaniahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swahili_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatuhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bislama_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bislama_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatuhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swahili_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzaniahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Mandarinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinesehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore

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IN 1855 DEAN TRENCH, A LEADINGARCHITECT OF THE OXFORD ENGLISHDICTIONARY, EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT

STUDYING THE DICTIONARY WOULD LEADTHROUGH A MORE INTIMATE KNOWLEDGEOF ENGLISH INTO A GREATER LOVE OFENGLAND. IN THE 1980S THIS ATTITUDE WASEXPRESSED ONCE AGAIN IN RELATION TO

THE STANDARD DIALECT OF ENGLISH. THEBRITISH SECRETARY OF STATE FOREDUCATION POINTED TO THE IMPORTANCEOF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS A SYMBOLOF NATIONHOOD.

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It reflects the tendency to see language

and nation as synonymous: onelanguage=one nation.

Countries like India or Philipinas were are

soo many languages is a need to stablishone oficial language to choose a FrancaLanguage.

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14

Language

Planning andPolicy Goals:

An IntegrativeFramework

(Hornberger,

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WHY DO YOU THINK ENGLISH MIGHT BEREGARDED BY SOME POLITICANS AS

MORE SUITABLE THAN SWAHILI FORSECONDARY AND TERTIARY EDUCATIONIN TANZANIA?

WHAT ARE THE COUNTER-ARGUMENTS?

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English is the language of secondaryeducation, universities, technology and

higher courts., and because in Englishwe find more information and a widervocabulary of technical terms.