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Malawian English, the Glossary

Index Malawian English

Malawian English is the English language as spoken in Malawi.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 12 relations: African Lakes Corporation, Blantyre, British Central Africa Protectorate, English language, Malawi, Official language, Politics of Malawi, Scramble for Africa, Secondary education, Tertiary education, Text corpus, United Nations Development Programme.

  2. Languages attested from the 19th century
  3. Languages of Malawi

African Lakes Corporation

The African Lakes Corporation plc was a British company originally set-up in 1877 by Scottish businessmen to co-operate with Presbyterian missions in what is now Malawi.

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Blantyre

Blantyre is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with a population of 800,264.

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British Central Africa Protectorate

The British Central Africa Protectorate (BCA) was a British protectorate proclaimed in 1889 and ratified in 1891 that occupied the same area as present-day Malawi: it was renamed Nyasaland in 1907.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Malawi

Malawi (in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa.

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Official language

An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.

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Politics of Malawi

Politics of Malawi takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Malawi is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

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Scramble for Africa

The Scramble for Africa was the conquest and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers driven by the Second Industrial Revolution during the era of "New Imperialism" (1833–1914): Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

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Secondary education

Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scale.

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Tertiary education

Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education.

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Text corpus

In linguistics and natural language processing, a corpus (corpora) or text corpus is a dataset, consisting of natively digital and older, digitalized, language resources, either annotated or unannotated.

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United Nations Development Programme

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.

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See also

Languages attested from the 19th century

Languages of Malawi

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malawian_English