Vernacular, national and formal languages in Kenya.

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Maryanne Naipasoi Tutuma. We play your songs on wide screen at home and my kids loves it. Thank you for such fine tunning songs!
We also follow Ole Pakuo and his tantalizing Maasai Gospel music. Saidimu Ole Ngais.

Where are all the children book writers? video producers to help register and keep our languages?

Many Diaspora Kenyans children are in dare need of language material to aid keep the language. Nairobians are in the same port as the Diaspora Kenyans! Most of them speak only our national and formal languages.

I think there is a huge market in this area because so many Kenyans are sincerely looking back and wishing they ever learnt their vernacular and a few other local languages. They wish they could teach their kids at least one local language apart from Kiswahili!
Someone can at least dub children programs in different local languages. For me, I think that is a very huge media market just waiting to be tapped on. If we don’t do it ourselves, someone is gonna do it soon and reap the benefits!

Our language is one of the values I sincerely want to keep. Everything else can and is already diluted but please help me keep my language! I can always take it with me wherever I go.

We should introduce vernacular languages as subjects in our education system. That diversity is so significant to just let it die off. How shall we be able to tell who we are if we loose our languages?

There are so many things we cannot explain using foreign languages including Kiswahili.

Kenya is wealthier with our vernacular as a tool to explain our history as the way we use other international languages like English to learn about the world histories.

Our lifestyle is changing so the only way we’ll be able to keep our history is to protect our languages.

I can always wear western clothing’s and speak perfect Kimaasai or live in a stone modern house even designed like a Manyatta/maasai/Kikuyu/Swahili house.
What does it cost to maintain our languages?
Do you think it is possible to introduce and maintain 42 languages in a single country’s education system?

Others think that our ethnic vernaculars does not have place in our modern country therefore should be wiped out.

We have Kiswahili and English and that should be enough to unite the country! What is your take?

Saidimu Ole Ngais.