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...tried unsuccessfully to have Swahili established as a credit course, but President Pusey's office has refused on the grounds that here is no well-defined literature in Swahili. Swahili, since this December, is the official language of Tanganyika. Spoken extensively in East Africa, it is a lingua-franca, representing combinations of Arabic and local dialect, and is described by linguists as one of the "most regular" languages in the world...
...million people; it is the second language of 250 million others. It has long been the language of world commerce and, said Eccles, is rapidly becoming "the accepted language of development and aid in all continents." Even Communist-bloc engineers on foreign aid missions accept English as the lingua franca; more than 50% of all Soviet schoolchildren take an intensive, eleven-year English course...
Swahili clearly falls into this last category. As the lingua franca of about one-third of Africa, it is important now, and it will become more important twenty years from now. Quite simply, there is no reason why the University should not provide a course in it, unless the CEP is out to prove what nobody disputes: that it is oblivious to the desires of Harvard's students, even when their requests are perfectly sound...
Under the direction of William F. Russell, visiting professor of Music at the Summer School, the 158 singers formed six weeks ago in preparation for this one concert. The group will sing Josquin's Missa "Pange lingua," Five Songs, Opus 104, and Lambert's "The Rio Grande...
Urdu, which is a Turkish word for lashkar (army), developed under the influence of the Mogul kings some 400 years ago as a sort of lingua franca, originating in the northern parts of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. Later during the centuries, it spread very rapidly throughout the subcontinent and became the principal language of the people. For the first time in its history, Urdu has been declared an official language (in Pakistan, pop. 95 million)-the other official language being Bengali. The Urdu script is Arabic, written from right to left...