My wife considers it that it is very important to read and write in Dinka because she would be able to communicate with other Dinka who are educated and has no other language other than Dinka. (Survey-interview 5, male respondent).


I want my children to maintain their language so that they speak because this is their parent language, this is the language which they will use to talk to their relatives. (Survey-interview 16, female respondent)


Yeah I think the language is really important with identity because like if they lost their Dinka now if they go back to Africa they going to say yeah we are Dinka. How they going to look for someone to come and translate them? It’s not going to be a good thing. (Survey interview 25, female respondent)