https://theabcjourney.org Towards Healthier Eritrea, A Better Country. Sun, 03 May 2020 13:46:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://theabcjourney.org/archives/1112#comment-17 Sat, 11 Apr 2020 03:04:22 +0000 https://theabcjourney.org/?p=1112#comment-17 Yes, so I vote. For the sake of political correctness, we should not ignore practicability for we live in the reality. Ideals that we could not implement are not good.

]]> https://theabcjourney.org/archives/1112#comment-16 Sat, 11 Apr 2020 02:54:56 +0000 https://theabcjourney.org/?p=1112#comment-16 No, so I vote. Eritrea should avoid designating any of its languages as official. All native languages of the country, the languages of the nine ethnic groups, should all equally be official. Designating one may not be acceptable to the rest who do not speak it as their first language.

]]> https://theabcjourney.org/archives/1112#comment-15 Sat, 11 Apr 2020 02:31:16 +0000 https://theabcjourney.org/?p=1112#comment-15 Yes, so I vote. For a poor country such as Eritrea, it is not practical not to have an official language. The challenge is more so if the alternative is, as the Speaker pointed out, to treat all Eritrean languages as equal. However, to the section on the constitution on official language, a provision could be added that obligates the government to provide an interpreter, free of charge, for any citizen who does not speak the official language/s of the country.

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