Talk:Languages of Uganda

message: Which sources were used in compiling this list? — mark ✎ 12:44, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I moved this article from a subsection of another article. Certainly don't creating this long list myself. TreveXtalk 20:05, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

text: Hey mark, I managed to track down a couple of papers on language. I'm no linguist though, my time is probably better spent on creating articles for the significant languages which aren't already covered here (i.e. just duplicating info from ethnologue). Should we set ourselves a target, say all languages spoken by over 100,000? What do yu reckon? Furthermore, wouldn't it be just super if there was a GNU free license version of this map (hint hint)! :-) TreveXtalk 13:38, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, yeah, will do :). I have some Ugandan maps lying around anyway. — mark ✎ 15:44, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's an absolute beauty - and so quickly too! TreveXtalk 18:57, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Old discussion

message: In the list above, I've changed Adhola language to Dhopadhola language because apparently that is what Jopadhola call thier language. The content at Dhopadhola language was a section of Jopadhola.--Ezeu 02:54, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Dhopadhola language]] 

message: Apparently, Swahili was made an official language again in September 2005. -GTBacchus(talk) 18:27, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Brittanica doesn't say how they know, and I can't (yet) find a corroborating source.  I tend to trust the CIA World Factbook in these things... -GTBacchus(talk) 18:49, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official language 

message: I added a stub on Runyakitara, a recent standardization. Also a brief mention in the text of this article. (Re the To do, it does look like this article needs reorganization - so where I put the mention of Runyakitara may not be ideal - it could go under language policy.) --A12n 13:32, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have an idea for a better structure? — mark ✎ 10:20, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just coming back to this - not sure on a better structure. It might become clearer in (1) filling out the language policy discussion (e.g. about the movement for Runyakitare, about the discussions leading to the new bilingual education policy, a little more on various opinions of Swahili as a national language), and (2) comparing to articles on other countries. It may be possible and helpful to have a kind of template for topics to cover in the pages on languages of African countries. This article isn't too bad comparatively speaking now that I've had the chance to look more at some others.--A12n 03:06, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Some time ago I have tried to start an effort related to this; see this subpage of mine. Now might be a good time to get this rolling. Oh, and I agree that this article isn't too bad comparatively speaking; most others are simply incomplete lists or just don't exist yet. Still, that is one of the reasons why I would like to improve this one first; we might be able to make this article into something of a model for similar articles (this would be one way to implement the template idea you mention). — mark ✎ 21:59, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Runyakitara 

message: This sentence: "Language differences may have increased ethnic tensions and caused difficulty in forming a national identity." ... packs a couple of assumptions which are questionable. (1) The role or not of language in tensions between groups. Often as not it is a "marker" that is used when other issues are the source of tensions. How does language cause tensions? Does skin color cause tensions (some have compared languages differences thus)? Attitudes and prejudices may be involved. Other behaviors may be involved. But it is a sort of cliché that "language divides." (2) The whole issue of one language for national identity and all is under increasing question even as some insist more on it. Ayo Bamgbose of Nigeria has written on this. This is all part of larger discussions that can't be treated in this article (though mentioned more appropriately), but could figure in a larger discussion in another article (perhaps this has been done or started already).--A12n 03:15, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. That sentence oversimplifies the causes of Uganda's recent problems by narrowing it down (implicitly) to a language problem. I'm removing it. --Ezeu 19:47, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Glad it is gone. Don, perhaps a good place for the larger discussion you're talking about would be African languages, where we don't have a good discussion of multilingualism and language politics yet. — mark ✎ 22:01, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Myths & realities re language, ethnic relations, & national identies 

message: Whilst not a linguist myself, I noticed that there was no mention of the Lussese language still spoken in the Ssese Islands. Since I worked in the Ssese Islands for several years, I personally encountered Lussese speakers - some of whom were quite a bit younger than the 80 years plus quoted in the cited work. However, including this knowledge would represent original research, so I made no mention of it in the article. For the time being I have added a sentence to the remarks about the similarity between Luganda-Lusoga (with appropriate citation), but do not feel qualified/confident to attempt creating a separate article for the Lussese language. Perhaps someone with suitable skills might at least attempt creating a stub? Cheers, Peter B. (talk) 06:27, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing languages 

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