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- Malawian_English abstract "Malawian English is the English language as spoken in Malawi. English and Chichewa are the country's two official languages.English was introduced into Malawi towards the end of the 19th century, due to the influence of British explorers, missionaries, the arrival of the African Lakes Corporation, and colonial administrators present since the establishment in the 1890s of the British Central Africa Protectorate. The seventy years of British colonial rule that followed the Scramble for Africa, set the groundwork for English to grow into the area's dominant and most socially prestigious language.Since Malawian independence, the dominance of English has continued: official government records are written in English, parliament conducts its deliberations in English, the laws of Malawi are written in English, progression into secondary and higher education requires certification of competence in English, nearly all Malawian newspapers are published in English (though some include small Chichewa supplements), English remains the language of commerce in the country.This remains true despite a large majority of Malawians speaking Chichewa and the small number of English speakers outside urban centres. Also, in Malawian government schools, students are taught in Chichewa, and learn English as a second language from about age 10. But in international schools in Malawi (like Saint Andrew's International High School in Blantyre) which follow the British curriculum, English is the language students are taught in, and do not learn Chichewa at all, as it is regarded as a local language.English words are even replacing their equivalents in other Malawi languages. One study of a corpus of Chichewa discourse captured over a ten-year period found that references to numbers greater than 3 were exclusively in English, at least in urban areas.Malawian English has a slight tinge of non-linguistic expressions that are still used, such as "eesh!", an exclamation meaning "oh my!"".
- Malawian_English wikiPageExternalLink www.information.gov.mw.
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- Malawian_English wikiPageExternalLink www.unima.mw.
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- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink African_Lakes.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink African_Lakes_Corporation.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink Blantyre.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink Blantyre,_Malawi.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink British_Central_Africa_Protectorate.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink Category:English_dialects.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Malawi.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink Chewa_language.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink Chichewa_language.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink English_language.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink Higher_education.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink Malawi.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink New_Imperialism.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink Official_language.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink Politics_of_Malawi.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink Scramble_for_Africa.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink Secondary_education.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink Text_corpus.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLink United_Nations_Development_Programme.
- Malawian_English wikiPageWikiLinkText "Malawian English".
- Malawian_English hasPhotoCollection Malawian_English.
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- Malawian_English wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Languages_of_Malawi.
- Malawian_English wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Malawi-stub.
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- Malawian_English subject Category:English_dialects.
- Malawian_English subject Category:Languages_of_Malawi.
- Malawian_English hypernym Language.
- Malawian_English type Language.
- Malawian_English type Dialect.
- Malawian_English type Language.
- Malawian_English comment "Malawian English is the English language as spoken in Malawi. English and Chichewa are the country's two official languages.English was introduced into Malawi towards the end of the 19th century, due to the influence of British explorers, missionaries, the arrival of the African Lakes Corporation, and colonial administrators present since the establishment in the 1890s of the British Central Africa Protectorate.".
- Malawian_English label "Malawian English".
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- Malawian_English sameAs Q6741487.
- Malawian_English sameAs Q6741487.
- Malawian_English wasDerivedFrom Malawian_English?oldid=671461103.
- Malawian_English isPrimaryTopicOf Malawian_English.