{"id":1275,"date":"2011-10-09T09:27:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T09:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2011-10-09T09:27:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T09:27:50","slug":"south-sudan-celebrates-with-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/09\/south-sudan-celebrates-with-english\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan celebrates with English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/125px-Flag_of_South_Sudan.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/125px-Flag_of_South_Sudan.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"125px-Flag_of_South_Sudan.svg\" width=\"125\" height=\"63\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1276\" \/><\/a>The world\u2019s newest nation, South Sudan, has adopted English as its official language.<\/p>\n<p>South Sudan was created after a referendum earlier this year, splitting off from the mainly Arabic speaking Sudan. Leaders hope that choosing English will make South Sudan a modern country and see it as a \u201ctool for development\u201d. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With English,&#8221; the news director of South Sudan Radio, Rehan Abdelnebi, told me haltingly, &#8220;we can become one nation. We can iron out our tribal differences and communicate with the rest of the world.&#8221; (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-15216524\">BBC News<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are issues, however. Around 150 different languages are spoken in the country, with most people having grown up speaking a form of Arabic. Few people speak English, and a large proportion of the population are illiterate. <\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope that South Sudan can become a successful and peaceful country, with or without English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s newest nation, South Sudan, has adopted English as its official language. South Sudan was created after a referendum earlier this year, splitting off from the mainly Arabic speaking Sudan. Leaders hope that choosing English will make South Sudan a modern country and see it as a \u201ctool for development\u201d. &#8220;With English,&#8221; the news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,100,3],"tags":[97,3,1061,1060,1059],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic","category-culture","category-english","tag-arabic","tag-english","tag-english-adoption","tag-juba-arabic","tag-south-sudan-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}