Chapter 5 Mutual inter-comprehensibility: A case against the number of African languages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Acknowledgement XI
4. Contents XIII
5. Chapter 1 African multilingualism re-defined: ‘I am because you are’ 1
6. Chapter 2 History of language war and its sociolinguistic output 13
7. Chapter 3 Language inventions and the role of missionary linguists 27
8. Chapter 4 Myths and controversies on policy implementation 34
9. Chapter 5 Mutual inter-comprehensibility: A case against the number of African languages 47
10. Chapter 6 Conversation analyses and high order thinking: A case for harmonization 63
11. Chapter 7 Beyond boundaries to full linguistic repertoires 83
12. Chapter 8 Sankofa, decolonization and shifting multilingual lenses 102
13. Chapter 9 Ubuntu translanguaging: Implications for language policy and education 111
14. Chapter 10 Not eleven languages: Harmonizing and translanguaging in concert 126
15. References 135
16. Index 145