“If we formalize a language today, it becomes a working language” (Rodrigue Bayala)

2023-12-31 08:11:12

One of the innovations contained in the bill revising the constitution is also the institutionalization of national languages ​​as official languages. The Minister in charge of Justice, Rodrigue Bayala, shed light on this decision for everyone this Saturday, December 30, 2023.

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For a member of the ALT, a language cannot be official without being a working language, he worried before the minister in charge of justice came to shed light on his concern. Then providing elements of response to questions from members of the ALT on this issue, the Minister in charge of Justice, Edasso Rodrigue Bayala stressed that when we talk about the officialization of a language it is a question of political option.

«Not political politics. Why I say this, you will be surprised that large countries do not have an official language as such. I take the example of Great Britain, English is not the official language, there is not a document since their constitution is not written.

There is no document in which it is written that English is the official language. Some will also be surprised that in the USA, at the federal level, we do not say that English is the official language.“, he said.

Read also ????????The bill revising the Constitution adopted by the ALT on December 30, 2023

For the minister, the officialization of national languages ​​aims to give a little more (values, editor’s note) to these languages. “Officialization is defined as a decision by the competent authority which renders a language as an instrument of communication in the sectors of education, justice and administration. So in the formalization, there is already a working language. If we formalize a language today, it becomes a working language “, he decided.

And to specify that “a language can be a working language without being an official language. And we do not need to write in a text that a particular language is a working language for it to be a working language.” According to Edasso Rodrigue Bayala, the officialization of national languages ​​is a question of primacy that the government has given to these national languages.

Other innovations contained in this bill revising the constitution are, among others, the insertion of English as a working language, the establishment of a community council which will be a merger of the CES (Economic and Economic Council). social) and the Mediator of Faso, the Superior Council of the Judiciary will bring together magistrates and non-magistrates and the erection of the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) into a State Security Council.

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