16f59e No.119
I vote for German or English as the official languages of Our new nation. What do you guys Think?
2394ba No.121
>>119I agree, maybe Afrikaans could be official as well?
78558c No.122
Definitely English as it seems 99% of people in these threads speak it. German could help us attract people as well, so that sounds good.
But why Afrikaans over Dutch? I hear they're mutually intelligible.
00cd38 No.125
>>122Yep English is our best bet
84d8f3 No.127
English, German, and Afrikaans.
English will be the official language, the locals can use any of aforementioned languages.
c6cf1e No.134
English and Afrikaans
1f89f3 No.140
>>119Another vote for English and Afrikaans. Don't Namibians speak English as well? I watched a few videos from their country and they all seemed to speak English. I only added Afrikaans because there are a lot of white Africans who already speak it so we want to appeal to them the best we can.
2394ba No.141
>>140They speak either German or English.
1551e3 No.144
>>119Voting for Afrikaans.
>>122Afrikaans is widely spoken in Namibia also in Southern Africa. Its the Afrikaans people who are going to support you expect a lot of opposition from African English speakers. Afrikaans is also a simplified version of dutch basically, if you are going to learn a new language might as well take the less complicated root
Laat die droom waar word.
e2a588 No.146
English, German, and French. It allows the community to retain links with the European powers and it gives it the ability to talk with the rest of the African continent. Also, a distinct culture would emerge from using and learning/knowing the 3 languages.
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ecff65 No.173
Why is this even a question? English
4f5613 No.184
English, German, and Afrikaans are all spoken in Namibia at varying degrees. I say we recognize all three.
ecff65 No.209
what about latin?
dc6e39 No.224
>>119Perhaps we could be like Canada and be "trilingual" with English, German and Afrikaans all holding official status.
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45b5b2 No.299
>>119English no doubt, more people speak it. If we have english instead of German, we wouldn't need to waste tax money to teach english to kids.
dda0b4 No.328
>>119English and Afrikaans
11a6f4 No.335
We should revive Latin as a language.
1dc98f No.337
>>119English and Afrikaans for certain
>GermanWe could just say we recognize all European languages also?
4f5613 No.338
>>335No. You are retarded.
>>337German because a lot of the existing white population speaks German, should honor their heritage.
595f07 No.339
Esperanto or bust faggots
b8588c No.340
How about we make our own language. 8chanese.
Our leader is stupid - OP is a faggot
b8588c No.343
1dc98f No.360
>>338>white population speaks Germangreat, I speak both German and English, so this is fine by me.
066880 No.362
Let's have English and afrikann as our main languages,and german as a recognized language,since many still speak it.
I wonder if it would be possible to also at least teach Latin to the youth.resurrect it
1dc98f No.366
>>362Many private schools, esp. Catholic ones, teach Latin here in US, so that would be easy, of course, it would be impractical for common use.
We should encourage very citizen to know English and Afrikaans at least.
If this succeeds we'll probably blend over time into some new form of blended Afrikaans and English, with hints of German.
347487 No.368
>>366Anyone willing to give some examples of Afrikaans?
347487 No.369
>>368didn't mean to quote
7be2d9 No.393
>>125This
Also protip: English is the official language for Namibia. Useful for trade/negotiations.
4f5613 No.402
>>366We can have English, Afrikaans, and German as officialy recognized languages, guys. English can just be the main business language, but it would be bad form to not recognize the native white's tongues.
57db2e No.668
English and Afrikaans. I'd advocate Sambhasa or a Germanic-ish conlang over Esperanto, if we're going with that language; the only native speaker of Esperanto is Geroge Soros.
dd1980 No.769
>>184>>210Agreed. English, German, and Afrikaans as official languages with recognized tribal dialects.
45d701 No.805
>>339no Esperanto was invented by commies. We don't want that shit here.
7a464f No.824
We should standardize an officially designated English reformed-dialect
English is a very inconsistent language in spelling, grammar, and lexicon (minute vs minute.etc) we must have a legally reformed edition of the English language with such inconsistencies removed
bf9cdd No.835
>>119Everyone here is fluent in English. Why don't we just make it so nobody has to learn a new language, and make the official language English>
da8619 No.958
>>119Afrikaans all the way. It's simpler than Dutch, but contains elements of German and English mixed into it. I've already started learning, and it's pretty comfortable. It's mostly vocabulary.
d205ed No.963
>>119German and Afrikaans. Or, if possible, there could be a melding of the two languages over time and that new iron-language could be it… Germanokaans.
c1f51f No.972
If you think German would make a good official language to the exclusion of English, let us switch the board language to German and conduct all discussion in German from here on in.
Yeah? Nah. That's what I thought.
English, Afrikaans - co-official. As other posters have pointed out, Afrikaans is the language spoken by the people you're most likely to get support from and who have the skills and experience you need. (What experience? Africa. Rule 1 of Africa is "you do not understand Africa".)
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4f5613 No.994
>>972You do not understand Namibia.
It had German as an official language until the anti-racist niggers took office, because the whites SPEAK GERMAN.
Why can't we just be trilingual?
German, Afrikaans, English!
All three have a strong tradition amongst the whites of Southern Africa, especially in Namibia.
294101 No.1007
The only reason places have official languages is to keep it alive (eg Welsh in Wales is co offical with English) so White namibians speak Afrikaans first (at 60ish percent) then German (at 30 percent) and English at about 1%, I assume the reason for English is because we all fucking speak it, but hey if we need all the support we can get
c1f51f No.1033
>>994>>1007I see! Forgive me, I did not do my research and spoke crap as a result.
I do believe English would naturally end up as a primary language of this settlement simply because of the number of interested English speakers.
Trilingual would be the way to go. The only problem with having more than one official language (assuming independence is gained) is that you have to write your laws and government materials is all official languages, then specify which of those languages controls or allow courts to sort conflicts out. Either way, there's an efficiency hit.
4f5613 No.1074
>>1033This all fails without local whites. Local whites, when they come, will speak these languages. I also speak German (as well as a couple of other language) but not Afrikaans, but we'll deal with that in time.
7db917 No.1079
>>119Afrikaans and English are the most practical. We can offer German as a supported language and teach it in schools as an option. English should be our official language.
381e37 No.1093
>>119>>121Why not all of the above?
02b972 No.1838
English, although German and Afrikaans would be fine.
5ce452 No.1842
English/German/Afrikaans is obvious.
That was the pre-1990 status quo after all.
b3071d No.1844
mix it with english and german
make it easy to speak
5ce452 No.1845
>>1079Not including German would be an insult to local whites. SWA was traditionally trilingual, there's no reason to deliberately exclude people by snubbing their language. You don't fuck with that shit in Africa.
02b972 No.1852
What about Portuguese? Since they colonized Mozambique and Angola.
5ce452 No.1855
>>1852Funny I thought there were practically no Portuguese in Namibia, but it turns out they represent up to 5% of the total population, even including blacks!
FUND IT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Namibia 02b972 No.1861
feea1a No.5496
>>119First language should be based english. Second language should be Dutch to try and entice Boers to come to Namibia with their skills and aryaness
5da6e3 No.5497
I would imagine english would be the primary since everybody here obviously speaks it, and afrikaaner since that is the most common language outside of native/tribal tongue in the south of africa
05da85 No.5531
Afrikaans and English are needed for both attracting an international audience and a local white population. If you think German would be any use, you have your head in the clouds.
3da46c No.5881
Novial, no, seriously.
Is an artificial language, like esperanto, but much more regular an natural for western speakers.
The estimated amount of study for becoming proficient with it is ~150 hours, compare it with the 3000 of French or English.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NovialPlus, a new language won't give advantages to the diferent citizens depending of their mother language, everyone would have to learn it from zero.
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3d551e No.6994
>>824>Naht eftcyming Eald-Ænglisc bb86c3 No.6997
>>6994I understand a word is 'English' in the end of your sentence.
6293fb No.7001
>>119Second. Also Afrikaans should be an official language. This could help us attract white people from Africa.
4611eb No.7006
>Let's make C++ the official language, guys.
See how dumb this sounds? This is why Socialism always fails, because your stupid leader makes a stupid decision which ruins everything, like invading russia without winter boots. Just let let everyone speak whichever language they want to and the most popular one(s) will rise to the top.
f1d6e2 No.7038
English and python.
9709c9 No.7059
>>6997He said ">not using Old-English"
c92060 No.7074
>>209get a load of this faggot
c92060 No.7076
>>7006It's not that simple bro, at least one language has to be spoken for the minimal amount of government we want (unless you are Ancap, in which case why are you here?). What language are the courts going to speak and the constitution written in? We just can't google translate laws from English to German and expect the meaning to be the same. I would support
>>224 but I would need to see how Switzerland and Canada have made it work.
Too be clear though, if you want to speak some disgusting poor people European language like Italian or Greek at home you shouldn't be forced from doing so. However, when your libertarian ass calls the police to file a noise complaint against me, we can't afford to be lost in translation.
b4c8e3 No.7950
English.
Duh
bb8a5e No.7957
>>975>>805That doesn't make it an intrinsically bad idea.
740316 No.8128
German, because Namibia was a German colony.
There are enough English-speaking countries on Earth as it is.