@omachini.....you write: '...kikys like there language but very few of them ( if any )who can speak another language in this country....' The truth is that,very few Kenyans can speak another tribes language except their own...and Kiswahili....and English. The skill of learning a new language is usually lost by the time we reach adulthood....very few adults retain the interest...they only learn new languages when the are 'forced' by circustances....e.g.,when trying to get a university place in,say,Germany.
Have you ever noticed that when you go to any international airport,you will find instructions written in the local language and then translated into English? This is the case everywhere in the world (including our very own JKIA) except in the UK,the USA,Australia and New Zealand where the signs are in English only.
Does that mean native speakers of English are too proud of their language? May be.
@wote...by saying that we have to retain our traditional languages,I am not suggesting that we thro away the unifying Kiswahili language. I think we can have both. Infact,linguists have observed that children who speak more than one language tend to perfom better in all other subjects in school. Thus killing our mother tongues will not only be a culture genocide,but also retrogressive. We don't have to do what the Europeans and Chinese did..they are not always right,you know
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