Sentence examples for colonial language from inspiring English sources

The West African country is the latest African country to turn away from its colonial language.

(Again, the colonial language is always bubbling just under the surface).

Will it be the colonial language, Portuguese, the sentimental favorite of the older generation?

Their success did not deter him, however, from questioning the importance granted in Kenyan education to the colonial language.

Though some were local comics written in the colonial language of Afrikaans, he preferred American superhero comics, like "Spider-Man".

There was, in those years, an antipathy, a hostility even, towards writing in English - that colonial language that should have been banned outright at independence.

Definitions vary, but Creoles are generally considered to be restructured languages formed in the last several centuries from contact with colonial languages like English, Portuguese or Arabic.

Some aspects of the modern Scottish Gaelic dialects show that they preserve features lost in the language of Ireland during the Old Irish period; such archaism is characteristic of "colonial" languages.

Derek Bickerton, an American scholar of Creoles (he defines them as "bastard tongues" of "dubious and disputed parentage"), suggests other reasons for Papiamentu's strength, including the weakness of Dutch compared with other colonial languages.

Being mixed race, Dane resents that he was only allowed to learn "the colonial languages of Afrikaans and English", but says "dance makes me feel part of the world.

Famous for his call to African writers to abandon English and other colonial languages, and for his labyrinthine 2006 satire Wizard of the Crow, Wa Thiong'o is an untiring advocate of social justice and the power of storytelling.