258:(OSISA) to carry out a language survey for Malawi and produce a language atlas. The project culminated in the production of the first linguistic atlas for the country in which detailed technical information about the language situation in Malawi was provided. This included data on the total number of languages (and their dialects), their geographical spread, demographic details about their speakers and recommendations to the Malawi government about the implication of the language information for education policy in Malawi.
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one of its major projects was the production of monolingual dictionaries as a resource. Data was collected and in the early 2000s monolingual dictionaries for Ciyao and
Chichewa were produced. These have proved to be a useful resource for people working on the two languages as well as for teaching in the main native languages of Malawi, a language policy reform that Mtenje (2011) advocates for.
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Topics in
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Mtenje, Al D. 1987. Tone shift principles in the
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Special Issue, Language in Mind: A Tribute to Neil Smith On the
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Downing, Laura J. and Mtenje, Al. 2011. Prosodic phrasing of Chichewa relative clauses.
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Globalisation and African Languages: Risks and Benefits
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Mtenje, Al. 1993. Verb structure and tone in Ciyao. In
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