Seeing the Afrikaans language as a decolonised language, speakers at the Breaking Down Borders Africa Youth Summit conference shared how central language is in decolonising education.<\/p>\n
Dr Edith Phaswana, a senior lecturer at the University of South Africa (Unisa), said a model of decolonisation can be learnt from how Afrikaans developed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s because this language evolved in the twentieth century. Before 1914 there was no Afrikaans, but today we speak of Afrikaans as scientific language that is taught at university level, that has produced its own literature as well,\u201d said Phaswana.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur languages \u2013 isiXhosa, seSotho and all of them \u2013 are older than Afrikaans, are more matured than Afrikaans and if Afrikaans can reach this level … it means there\u2019s a possibility that we can form our own creole from the many Nguni and Sotho languages that we have in this country in order to form a formal scientific language at university level,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
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