Setswana Language History (part 2)
Setswana Language History Part 2: The Written Language The evolution of Setswana orthography is itself a story worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster, with plot twists and whodunits that would rival any Alfred Hitchcock mystery. It started with European missionaries, each not only struggling with learning the new African language from the point of view of their various vernaculars and Christian denominational perspectives. And then when it was all eventually falling into place and the native speakers were now on board, it emerged…