Executive Summary - Centre for Language Studies

Table of ContentsAcknowledgments .................................................................................................................Abbreviations and Acronyms ................................................................................................List of tables ..........................................................................................................................CHAPTER 1 ..........................................................................................................................INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................1.0. Preliminary remarks ...............................................................................................1.1 Main objectives ......................................................................................................1.2 Specific objectives .................................................................................................1.3 Methodology ..........................................................................................................1.4 Research team ........................................................................................................1.5 Instruments ............................................................................................................1.5.1 Individual questionnaires ...............................................................................1.5.2 Focus group discussions ................................................................................1.5.3 Key informant interviews ..............................................................................1.5.4 Geographical positioning system (GPS)........................................................1.6 Problems/limitations and challenges .....................................................................1.6.1 Inadequacy of time ........................................................................................1.6.2 Temporary scarcity of fuel .............................................................................1.6.3 Distance between households ........................................................................1.6.4 Bad condition of roads ...................................................................................1.6.5 Establishing the centres of villages ................................................................1.6.6 Lack of adequate linguistic knowledge .........................................................1.6.7 Establishing languages/dialects .....................................................................1.6.8 Getting the participants required for FGDs ...................................................CHAPTER 2 ..........................................................................................................................RESULTS FOR SOUTHERN REGION ...............................................................................2.0 Languages of Southern Region and their dialects .................................................2.1 Languages spoken in the Southern region .............................................................2.1.1 Languages of Balaka ......................................................................................2.1.2 Languages of Blantyre ...................................................................................2.1.3 Languages of Chikwawa ................................................................................2.1.4 Languages of Chiradzulu ...............................................................................2.1.5 Languages of Machinga .................................................................................4