I would urge people not to keep murdering Runyoro-Rutooro! It has its orthography
SIR— Various organisations like The New Vision, The Monitor, MTN, WHO and many Government bodies are murdering Runyoro-Rutooro while fully knowing that it is Government policy to develop mother tongues in preparation for examining them at PLE in 2008
SIR— Various organisations like The New Vision, The Monitor, MTN, WHO and many Government bodies are murdering Runyoro-Rutooro while fully knowing that it is Government policy to develop mother tongues in preparation for examining them at PLE in 2008.
According to the Ministry of Education calendar, local languages will be examined for certificate awards. They will be designated basic subjects. Which means pupils must pass them in order to qualify for First Grade.
The above organisations are writing ungrammatical Runyoro-Rutooro not based on the official orthography. For example, the above organisations are violating rules on the use of double or single vowels and consonants.
They write, “Queen mother of Tooro, Best Ã. Kemigishaâ€, instead of “Best Ã. Kemigisaâ€, Matiya Kashaija, instead of Kasaija. And in the towns of Fort Portal, Masindi, Hoima and Karuguuza, MTN and WHO have put up public posters mixing and interchanging words of Runyankore-Rukiga and those of Runyoro-Rutooro.
For the information of the above organisations, go to Aristoc Bookshop and get copies of Runyoro-Rutooro Orthography and learn the rules of our language before you write anything.
The official Runyoro-Rutooro orthography is that one which was approved by combined authorities and experts on the language at a workshop at Mucwa in Fort Portal in 2002. These were the language boards of Tooro and Bunyoro-Kitara, Makerere University Institute of Languages and Ekitebe Ky’Orulimi Orunyoro-Orutooro.
These experts spent three years debating and updating the then five orthographies which they married into a single acceptable one. Anybody writing anything in Runyoro-Rutooro must follow this orthography. The Ekitebe Ky’Orulimi Orunyoro-Orutooro has a central vetting committee which ascertains the grammar and rules of our language.
Henry Ford Miirima
Chairman
Ekitebe Ky’Orulimi Orunyoro-Orutooro
According to the Ministry of Education calendar, local languages will be examined for certificate awards. They will be designated basic subjects. Which means pupils must pass them in order to qualify for First Grade.
The above organisations are writing ungrammatical Runyoro-Rutooro not based on the official orthography. For example, the above organisations are violating rules on the use of double or single vowels and consonants.
They write, “Queen mother of Tooro, Best Ã. Kemigishaâ€, instead of “Best Ã. Kemigisaâ€, Matiya Kashaija, instead of Kasaija. And in the towns of Fort Portal, Masindi, Hoima and Karuguuza, MTN and WHO have put up public posters mixing and interchanging words of Runyankore-Rukiga and those of Runyoro-Rutooro.
For the information of the above organisations, go to Aristoc Bookshop and get copies of Runyoro-Rutooro Orthography and learn the rules of our language before you write anything.
The official Runyoro-Rutooro orthography is that one which was approved by combined authorities and experts on the language at a workshop at Mucwa in Fort Portal in 2002. These were the language boards of Tooro and Bunyoro-Kitara, Makerere University Institute of Languages and Ekitebe Ky’Orulimi Orunyoro-Orutooro.
These experts spent three years debating and updating the then five orthographies which they married into a single acceptable one. Anybody writing anything in Runyoro-Rutooro must follow this orthography. The Ekitebe Ky’Orulimi Orunyoro-Orutooro has a central vetting committee which ascertains the grammar and rules of our language.
Henry Ford Miirima
Chairman
Ekitebe Ky’Orulimi Orunyoro-Orutooro